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Introduction Health professionals who work in mental healthcare settings need to use standardised, objective instruments; however, it is also extremely important that they maintain a client-focused perspective.
Ay-Woan Pan +3 more
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Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang +2 more
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The Volitive and the Executive Function of Intentions [PDF]
Many philosophers of action conceive intentions functionally, as executive states: intentions are mental states that represent an action and tend to cause this action.
Lumer, Christoph
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Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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Implications for democracy of a networked bureaucratic world [PDF]
Dwight Waldo wrote nearly fifty years ago that democracy is very much more than the political context in which public administration is carried out. Public administration is now less hierarchical and insular and is increasingly networked.
O'Toole Jr, Laurence J.
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Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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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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Is Christian Anthropology essentially dualist or it is reasonable to uphold a particular form of Christian monism? Recent developments in neurosciences challenge the idea of an immaterial soul, source of spiritual operations such as cognition, volition ...
Luis O. Jiménez-Rodríguez
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi +2 more
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