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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Ambient fine particulate matter and its constituents may exacerbate the acceleration of aging in adults

Environment International
Both ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and aging are important urban concerns. However, the associations between PM2.5 constituents and the acceleration of aging (AA) remain unclear.
Cui Guo, Jun Yang, Jun Ma, Jie Chen, Siyi Chen, Yiling Zheng, Bo Huang, Jianzhen Yu, Tiantian Li, Shenjing He   +9 more
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Shotgun metagenomes from productive lakes in an urban region of Sweden. [PDF]

Sci Data, 2023
Rodríguez-Gijón A, Hampel JJ, Dharamshi J, Bertilsson S, Garcia SL.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Simulating emergent urban form: desakota in China

, 2005
We propose that the emergent phenomenon know as ?desakota?, the rapidurbanization of densely populated rural populations in the newlydeveloped world, particularly China, can be simulated using agent-basedmodels which combine both local and global ...
Xie, Y, Batty, M, Zhao, K
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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Evolution of Logistic Spatial Patterns in Metropolitan Contexts: The Case of Madrilenian Urban Region

Revista de Estudios Andaluces, 2019
The logistic activity has been analysed by different approaches, but with a lack of attention to its impacts in the urban and spatial configuration. This work studies the logistic expansion in the Urban Region of Madrid, considering the geographical ...
Eloy Solís-Trapero, Julio Plaza-Tabasco, Héctor Samuel Martínez Sánchez-Mateo   +2 more
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Experimental and numerical study on helical piles in aeolian sand: bearing behavior and design methods

Soils and Foundations
In aeolian sand, the mechanical behavior of helical anchors involves complex performance evolution mechanisms that are not yet fully understood. This study employs a multi-scale integrated approach combining field tests, numerical simulations, and ...
Yongping Li, Songzhao Qu, Jing Bai, Dongming Yang, Sangtian Hu, Lefu Di, Ruiyuan Han, Yijin Wu, Yuan Xiang, Dapeng Wang, Yi Zhang, Yonghua Guo, Zhe Zhang   +12 more
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Impact of vaccine prioritization strategies on mitigating COVID-19: an agent-based simulation study using an urban region in the United States. [PDF]

BMC Med Res Methodol, 2021
Tatapudi H, Das R, Das TK.
europepmc   +2 more sources

An Empirical Analysis of Income Inequality between a Minority and the Majority in Urban China: The Case of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region [PDF]

Based on the urban survey data of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in 2006, this paper studies the impact of ethnic characteristics on the income determination mechanism in the same economic region.
Li Shi, Ding Sai
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Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang, Edward C. Jaenicke, Martina Vecchi, Sheng‐Jang Sheu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source