Labor arrangements and financial inclusion of agricultural workers in a dynamic agricultural region in Mexico: exploring the linkages [PDF]
, 2012 A Q-square approach is used to examine the linkages between labor markets and financial markets, at a micro level. We focus on contractual labor relationships of agricultural wage workers in Mexico and we try to assess whether, and to what degree, their ...
Morvant-Roux, Solène +2 more
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Certification schemes and the governance of land : enforcing standards or enabling scrutiny? [PDF]
, 2013 Given the challenges of upholding human rights in countries where land grabbing has been most acute, attention has turned to alternative regulatory mechanisms by which better land governance might be brought about. This essay considers one such approach:
Fortin, Elizabeth, Richardson, Ben
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Cartographic Design of Cultural Maps [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Throughout history, maps have been used as a tool to explore cities. They visualize a city's urban fabric through its streets, buildings, and points of interest. Besides purely navigation purposes, street names also reflect a city's culture through its commemorative practices.
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Sensitivity of airborne-derived crop stress indices to the agricultural practices [PDF]
, 2008 When acquired both in optical and thermal infrared domain, remotely sensed data can provide a wide range of information about the status of a crop. Several studies have demonstrated the utility of such information for the development of stress indices ...
Bégué, Agnès +2 more
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Statistical modeling: the three cultures [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Two decades ago, Leo Breiman identified two cultures for statistical modeling. The data modeling culture (DMC) refers to practices aiming to conduct statistical inference on one or several quantities of interest. The algorithmic modeling culture (AMC) refers to practices defining a machine-learning (ML) procedure that generates accurate predictions ...
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Evaluation of agricultural ecosystem services in fallowing land based on farmers' participation and model simulation [PDF]
, 2012 Fallowing with green fertilizer can benefit agricultural ecosystem services (AES). Farmers in Taiwan do not implement fallow practices and plant green fertilizer because the current subsidy level (46,000 NT$ per ha) is too low to manage fallowing.
Chang Kang-tsung +4 more
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When Cultures Meet: Modelling Cross-Cultural Knowledge Spaces [PDF]
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 2008, Vol.
166, Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XIX. Amsterdam: IOS Press. Pp.
314-321, 2018 Cross cultural research projects are becoming a norm in our global world. More and more projects are being executed using teams from eastern and western cultures. Cultural competence might help project managers to achieve project goals and avoid potential risks in cross cultural project environments and would also support them to promote creativity and
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An approach to valuing ponds within farming systems for aquaculture [PDF]
, 2000 [PDF contains 37 ...
Brugere, C., Little, D.
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KoCHET: a Korean Cultural Heritage corpus for Entity-related Tasks [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 As digitized traditional cultural heritage documents have rapidly increased, resulting in an increased need for preservation and management, practical recognition of entities and typification of their classes has become essential. To achieve this, we propose KoCHET - a Korean cultural heritage corpus for the typical entity-related tasks, i.e., named ...
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Global Software Development: Practices for Cultural Differences [PDF]
arXiv, 2018 Drivers for globalization are significant where today's organizations look for cheaper and faster ways to develop software as well as ways to satisfy quality and investment requirements imposed by customers, shareholders, and governments. Given these needs, Global Software Development (GSD) has become a "normal" way of doing business.
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