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The “Zhang Xuefeng Effect”: Information Intervention and the College Admission Problem in China

International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Information regarding the quality of colleges and labor‐market prospects of majors plays an important role in parents' and students' school‐choice decisions, particularly when these decisions are crucially relevant to the students' long‐run career choices and life earnings.
Yutong Huo, Yun Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Soil organic carbon stocks after ten years of reduced tillage, compost and mulch application in temperate organic agriculture. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Niether W, Leisch-Waskönig S, Finckh MR, Junge SM, Bilibio C, Peth S, Schmidt JH, Kamau JW, Gattinger A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Doubtful Receivables' Risk and Its Impact on Stock Returns

Journal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The current research proposes a previously unknown source of risk in relation to companies’ doubtful receivables. Higher relative doubtful receivables present a risk for companies' future cash flows. Hence, the article discusses an innovative risk measure associated with companies’ doubtful receivables.
Roi D. Taussig
wiley   +1 more source

Unintentional effects of environmentally-friendly farming practices: Arising conflicts between zero-tillage and a crop pest, the common vole (<i>Microtus arvalis</i>).

Agric Ecosyst Environ, 2019
Roos D, Caminero Saldaña C, Arroyo B, Mougeot F, Luque-Larena JJ, Lambin X.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Droughts Propagation and Direct Driving Variables Under Climate Change Projections: A Case Study of Tunisia

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
Drought spatiotemporal propagation and direct driving variables are assessed at multiple time steps with high spatial resolution using various drought indices (SPI, SPEI and SPDI) and entropy based mutual information under an ensemble of climate change projections over Tunisia. ABSTRACT Projecting drought occurrence and spatiotemporal propagation under
Haykel Sellami
wiley   +1 more source

Glyphosate use in agricultural production: it's contribution to global carbon dioxide emissions. [PDF]

GM Crops Food
Brookes G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Borax Promotes Fertility of Brassica napus Better Than Other Boron Species at Suboptimal Supply

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Continuous and sufficient boron (B) supply is essential for achieving maximum yield in Brassica napus. Increasing incidences of environmental water limitation are linked to reduced plant B availability and increased B deficiencies.
Jiline B. Tölle, Thomas D. Alcock, Gerd Patrick Bienert   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing water-efficient agriculture: evaluating the sustainability of soil management and irrigation synergies using fuzzy extent analysis. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Sharma R, Rallapalli S, Magner J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Alessia Masi, Neil Roberts, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early evidence for the benefits of biochar in organic regenerative agriculture. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Kohl L, Minarsch EL, Niether W, Dix BA, Kammann C, Clifton-Brown JC, Gattinger A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source