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The Success and the Barriers to Women's Representation in Southeast Asia Between State Policies, Political Parties and Women's Movement [PDF]

, 2014
Inisiatif Kemitraan Asia Tenggara -- United States (IKAT-US) Component 1 -- POWER, is one of Partnership's projects that supports efforts to increase women's representation in the Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste.
Adisti Ikayanti, Ruth Indiah Rahayu
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli, Wei Yang, Jia Han, Quoc Cuong Nguyen, Massimiliano Petracci, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr.   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reduced CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Expression in Alzheimer's Disease and Transgenic Mouse Models

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
CB1 receptor (CB1R) expression was significantly reduced in the hippocampus, medial frontal gyrus, and superior temporal gyrus of Alzheimer's patients. CB1R levels negatively correlated with amyloid‐β and tau pathology. In addition, CB1R expression was also reduced in the cortex of 5xFAD mice and in the hippocampus of Tg4‐42 mice.
Nike von Borcke, Amrei Vivian Purwien, Annik Steiert, Henrike Hasecke, Yvonne Bouter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shifting economic foundation of marriage in Japan: the erosion of traditional marriage [PDF]

Japan is one of few developed countries in which marriage and higher earning potential among women are negatively associated. As the proportion of births occurring outside of marriage remains low in Japan, fertility is still significantly influenced by ...
Setsuya Fukuda
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Gender Disparities in the Prevalence, Trends, and Determinants of Later‐Life Urinary Incontinence: A Disproportionate Burden on Women

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
This study shows that UI prevalence rose steadily in both the USA and UK during the 2010s, driven by aging, comorbidities, and educational changes, with women accounting for 65% of the projected increase in UI cases by 2030. These findings underscore the need for gender‐responsive UI prevention and care strategies, including targeted interventions for ...
Xiyin Chen, Shaoxiang Jiang, Muqi Guo, Hao Zhang, Mouwang Zhou, Yao Yao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen, Leon Englberger, Jens Rommel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between a Phantasm and the Daily Life. Herstoric In(ter)ventions in Latest Polish Women’s Literature

Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture
The article explores herstoric in(ter)ventions in Polish women’s literature of the last decades. The author analyzes selected texts by Izabela Filipiak, Joanna Bator, Anna Dziewit-Meller, Martyna Bunda, Liliana Hermetz and Inga Iwasiów, drawing ...
Joanna Szewczyk
doaj   +1 more source

Social Movements and Memory: Education, Age, and Memories of the Women\u27s Movement

, 2017
Past research in memory studies has indicated that there are social factors that influence who are more or less likely to recall certain events as important.
Longfellow, Kimberly A.
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