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Distribution, management and diversity of yam local varieties in Brazil: a study on Dioscorea alataL.

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Widely spread in the tropics, yams were introduced into Brazil during the colonial period and are currently grown throughout the country. Despite its importance as a pharmacological and food source, there is a lack of studies describing how and where ...
MVBM Siqueira, WF Nascimento, LRG Silva, AB Ferreira, EF Silva, LC Ming, EA Veasey   +6 more
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An Analysis of the Supply for Seed Yams in Nigeria [PDF]

This study was conducted to examine the supply of seed yam in major yam producing areas of Northern and Southern Nigeria using the supply function analysis.
Akinpelu, A.O, Aniedu, O.C, Anyaegbunam, H.N, Asumugha, G.N, Ibeagi, O.O, Njoku, M.E, Ogbonna, M.C, Okoye, B.C   +7 more
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Composite Flexible Blanket Insulation [PDF]

, 1991
Composite flexible multilayer insulation systems (MLI) were evaluated for thermal performance and compared with the currently used fibrous silica (baseline) insulation system.
Goldstein, Howard E., Kourtides, Demetrius A., Pitts, William C., Sawko, Paul M.   +3 more
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Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Cote d'Ivoire: Social Norms, Separate Accounts and Consumption Choices [PDF]

We study resource allocation within households in C“te d'Ivoire. In C“te d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm separate plots, and there is some specialization by gender in the crops that are grown.
Christopher Udry, Esther Duflo
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Islandness: Vulnerability and resilience in Oceania [PDF]

, 2009
Pacific and other islands have long been represented as sites of vulnerability. Despite this, communities on many Pacific islands survived for millennia prior to the intrusion of people from Europe into their realm. An examination of traditional disaster
Campbell, John
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The role of agriculture in the Nigerian economy since independence [PDF]

, 2006
The Nigerian agricultural sector deserves to be studied not less for the contribution of such knowledge to our understanding of the past, and present, but more for the usefulness of such knowledge in shaping the sector. The role that agriculture plays in
Ntukidem, Anametti
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Effect of pre-plant treatments of yam (Dioscorea rotundata) setts on the production of healthy seed yam, seed yam storage and consecutive ware tuber production

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2017
Numerous pests and diseases of yams are perpetuated from season to season through the use of infected seed material. Developing a system for generating healthy seed material would disrupt this disease cycle and reduce losses in field and storage. The use
Abiodun Olufunmilayo Claudius-Cole, Lawrence Kenyon, Danny L. Coyne   +2 more
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Neural Representations for Sensory-Motor Control, II: Learning a Head-Centered Visuomotor Representation of 3-D Target Position [PDF]

, 1992
A neural network model is described for how an invariant head-centered representation of 3-D target position can be autonomously learned by the brain in real time.
Bullock, Daniel, Greve, Douglas, Grossberg, Stephen, Guenther, Frank   +3 more
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DO HOUSEHOLDS FULLY SHARE RISK? EVIDENCE FROM GHANA [PDF]

Intrahousehold analyses provide new insights into how households make economic decisions. Much of the work in economics has traditionally treated the household as a single economic actor, but a number of studies are providing evidence that the dynamics ...
Doss, Cheryl R.
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Friday Facts, May 31, 2013, Vol. 176 [PDF]

, 2013
Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion part of the Iowa Department of Public Health produces of weekly newsletter about the Iowa WIC Program for the State of Iowa ...

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