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Price Transmission and Leadership in the Global Poultry Market: Results From Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil and the United States account for more than 40% of global poultry exports, with China and South Korea among their major destination markets. This study examines price transmission and market linkages between Brazil and the United States using monthly poultry export price data from January 1990 to December 2024. It also assesses which of
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Radio in Tonga : impact of modern communications technology in a changing traditional society [PDF]

open access: yes, 1982
For more about the East-West Center, see https://www.eastwestcenter.org/This report views radio as a Tongan social institution and attempts to place it into perspective as a vital part of society.
Fusimalohi, S. Tavake   +1 more
core  

Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Caribbean Report 01-08-1988

open access: yes, 1988
This program focuses on the new immigration act which removes the automatic right of Commonwealth citizens to bring their families to live with them. It also highlights some aspects of the impact of the results of the large majority vote at the annual ...
Whitaker, Allan (interviewee )   +11 more
core  

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science, European Modernity, and in J.P.S. Uberoi’s Writings: An Intervention in Postcolonial Sociology and Science and Technology Studies

open access: yesSocius
The author critically engages with the writings of J.P.S. Uberoi, a towering figure in Indian sociology and anthropology whose studies of modern science and European modernity have, nonetheless, been largely ignored within the fields of sociology as well
Amit Prasad
doaj   +1 more source

Palm sago : a tropical starch from marginal lands [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
"An East-West Center book from the East-West Technology and Development Institute."For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/This book takes a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach to studying the relationship between ...
Townsend, Patricia K.   +4 more
core  

Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Exposure Profiles and Their Predictors in a Study of US Volunteer Firefighters

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Firefighters may experience occupational exposure to per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Volunteer firefighters make up 65% of the US fire service, but their serum PFAS profiles have not been well characterized. This study aims to (1) describe PFAS serum profiles among US volunteer firefighters from 9 states enrolled in ...
Katherine A. Lubina   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Review of: "Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West," by Edward ...
Watts, Edward
core   +1 more source

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