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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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E‐mental health strategy for Australia [PDF]

The Australian Government, through this Strategy, is moving from funding a small number of proven and successful online mental health and telephone crisis support services, to a respected, evidence based, accessible, professionally recognised and ...

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Britain's first computer centre for banking: What did this building do? [PDF]

, 2009
At the beginning of the 1960s Barclays became the first British bank to open a computer centre. In this paper I trace the life of this building starting with its official opening on 4 July 1961 and ending with its protracted closure a decade later.
Martin, Ian
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organization of mental healthcare in Bosnia and Herzegovina during coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 2020
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), like any other pandemic, has imposed an unprecedented threat to physical and mental health to all nations, worldwide. There is no enough evidence in the literature in this area.
Izet Pajević, Mevludin Hasanović, Esmina Avdibegović, Alma Džubur-Kulenović, Marija Burgić-Radmanović, Dragan Babić, Nermana Mehić-Basara, Nera Zivlak-Radulović, Goran Račetović   +8 more
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Key worker services for disabled children: what characteristics of services lead to better outcomes for children and families? [PDF]

, 2006
Background: Research has shown that families of disabled children who have a key worker benefit from this service and recent policy initiatives emphasize the importance of such services. However, research is lacking on which characteristics of key worker
Beresford B., Cabinet Office, Court Report, Davis J., Department for Education and Skills/Department of Health, Department of Health/Department for Education and Skills, Glendinning C., Greco V., King S., Liabo K., Mukherjee S., Quine L., Sloper P., Tait T., Townsley R.   +14 more
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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Telemedicine in long-term elderly care facilities as “social accountability” in the context of Covid-19 [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica
: Introduction: The World Health Organization defined the compulsory need to redirect all educational, research and public health service activities of medical schools to meet all priority health needs, attributing to them this social responsibility ...
Carolina Pimentel Bertasso, Amanda Cristina Netto Guerra, Fernanda Pereira, Lissa Nakazato, Lara Godela Delatore, Toufic Anbar Neto, Cristiane Spadacio   +6 more
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Design and initial validation of the Raster method for telecom service availability risk assessment [PDF]

, 2012
Crisis organisations depend on telecommunication services; unavailability of these services reduces the effectiveness of crisis response. Crisis organisations should therefore be aware of availability risks, and need a suitable risk assessment method ...
Etalle, Sandro, Vriezekolk, Eelco, Wieringa, Roel   +2 more
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Digital Point‐of‐Care Testing Device Based on Bioluminescent Pyrophosphate in Real‐Time and Recombinase‐aid Amplification

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A point‐of‐care testing method based on solvent‐responsive magnetic beads suitable for large‐area diagnosis and mutation screening in remote areas was developed to detect it by combining bioluminescenct pyrophosphate in real‐time technology and recombinase‐aid amplification technology.
Zhongjie Fei, Juan Bai, Liwei Xu, Siyi Wang, Pengfeng Xiao, Dongrui Zhou, Guanxiong Liu, Rongbin Wei, Ping Jiang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source