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Political Economy of the 2014 Farm Bill

This article assesses the political economy of the 2014 U.S. farm bill, with a focus on the farm support safety net. The farm bill secured substantial bipartisan majorities in a politically ... , the 2014 farm bill makes achieving those limits more difficult. Research is discussed that can elucidate the ongoing political economy of U.S. farm policy and help shape future program design

Dealing with Uncertainty in Agent-Based Simulation: Farm-Level Modeling of Adaptation to Climate Change in Southwest Germany

Climate change will most likely confront agricultural producers with natural, economic, and political conditions that have not previously been observed and are largely uncertain. As a consequence ... .  155 - 64 )  Journal of Agricultural Economics McElroy M. B .  Additive General Error Models for Production, Cost, and Derived Demand or Share Systems ,  Journal of Political Economy

Aspects of Mossi History: A Bibliography

This bibliography provides the basis for a research survey on the political, ideological, economic, and cultural aspects of the Mossi states. As such, it focuses on historical writings pertaining to ... clusters from which sprang smaller states, such as Yako, Busma, Bulsa, Conquiztenga, Tatenga, Ratenga, Zitenga,and Mané. The Mossi states shared the same political structure based on a ‘model’ that first

Aspects of Mossi History: A Bibliography

This bibliography provides the basis for a research survey on the political, ideological, economic, and cultural aspects of the Mossi states. As such, it focuses on historical writings pertaining to ... clusters from which sprang smaller states, such as Yako, Busma, Bulsa, Conquiztenga, Tatenga, Ratenga, Zitenga,and Mané. The Mossi states shared the same political structure based on a ‘model’ that first

Science, institutional archives and open access: an overview and a pilot survey on the Italian cancer research institutions

The Italian research institutions in the field of oncology are moving the first steps towards the philosophy of OA. The main effort should be the implementation of common procedures also in order to ... to publish research articles in OA journals. Among the most recent Italian initiatives aimed at promoting the OA philosophy, it is worth mentioning the launch in 2008 of the Italian wiki on open

Science, institutional archives and open access: an overview and a pilot survey on the Italian cancer research institutions

institutions in the field of oncology are moving the first steps towards the philosophy of OA. The main effort should be the implementation of common procedures also in order to connect scientific publications ... Italian initiatives aimed at promoting the OA philosophy, it is worth mentioning the launch in 2008 of the Italian wiki on open access[8], conceived as a reference point on Italian projects and best

The Gender Pay Gap in Academia: Evidence from the Ohio State University

, covering the period 2006–2016, to estimate the gender wage gap. Ohio is often regarded as a bellwether for political (The Economist 2008) and consumer trends (Kiersz 2014) and, similarly, its flagship ... Search of Gender Effects on the Job Market and Early Career Publishing in Philosophy . Frontiers in Psychology   8 : 953 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ADS PubMed WorldCat   American

Arenavirus as a potential etiological agent of odontogenic tumours in humans

the North of Uganda, a missionary hospital in the middle of the savanna which has been isolated for 27 years due to political unrest, lack of roads and poverty. At St. Mary’s Hospital in 2018, the

Pyroptosis: a new paradigm of cell death for fighting against cancer

. Established tumors are typified with immunosuppressive TME, which reduces infiltration of T cells and restricts the anti-tumor activity of cytotoxic T cells. Philosophy of cancer biology has now been shifting

The Household and Individual-Level Productive Impacts of Cash Transfer Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa

detailed descriptions of the different evaluation designs in these countries. However, experimental designs are difficult to implement in practice for political, ethical, institutional, and logistical

The Effect of Land Access on Youth Employment and Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

importance of push factors in dictating occupation and migration decisions in Ethiopia. “It’s the youth bulge that stands to put greater pressure on the global economy, sow political unrest, spur mass ... potentially confounding effects of changes in political regimes and national land policies; (b) because the average child in our sample is under age 20 and thus an infant or not yet born at the time of pre-1992

Re-Examining the Reported Rates of Return to Food and Agricultural Research and Development: Comment

difficult to determine if reported IRRs to research would be ?credible? (Hurley, Rao, and Pardey 2014) if tax burdens were included), government myopia (Oehmke 1986) , political preferences (Oehmke and ... , M.J. 1959 . Formal Criteria for Investment Decisions . Journal of Political Economy 67 ( 5 ): 476 - 88 . Beidleman , C.R. 1984 . Discounted Cash Flow Reinvestment Rate Assumptions . Engineering

Information and Communication Technologies and the Digital Divide in Africa: A Review of the Periodical Literature, 2000-2012

. The author feels that the GIS revolution could not have come at a better time for Africa, which is experiencing more democratic political, economic, and media revolutions at the same time. Darley ... between FOSS, and looks at the advantages of using FOSS. The paper also details the political issues involved in the implementation of FOSS, on both the private and the governmental level. May concludes by

Information and Communication Technologies and the Digital Divide in Africa: A Review of the Periodical Literature, 2000-2012

. The author feels that the GIS revolution could not have come at a better time for Africa, which is experiencing more democratic political, economic, and media revolutions at the same time. Darley ... between FOSS, and looks at the advantages of using FOSS. The paper also details the political issues involved in the implementation of FOSS, on both the private and the governmental level. May concludes by

Agricultural Productivity and Forest Conservation: Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon

. , Diamond A. , Hainmueller J. . 2015 . Comparative Politics and the Synthetic Control Method . American Journal of Political Science   59 ( 2 ): 495 – 510 . Google Scholar Crossref Search ... (43): 15591–1559. Hainmueller J. 2012 . Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies . Political

African Ethnonyms and Toponyms: An Annotated Bibliography

, and the socio-political facets. Geographical facet. One of the prominent functions of names in general is to empower the users to refer to the entities named. This is of paramount importance in the case ... -political facet. Because naming and using names constitute verbal acts as the preceding paragraph show, they lend themselves to a multitude of social practices including socio-political ones. Not surprisingly

Foreign Periodicals on Africa

, v.31:no.1/3(AEU1392). 427. Nigerian journal of electoral and political behaviour / National Electoral Commission. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1 99O)- -- Lagos: The Commission, 1990 -. National Electoral ... . (AEU2811) 507. Report on the 1990 general and presidential elections. -- : University of Zimbabwe, Dept. of Political and Administrative Studies, 1991- (Occasional paper series / Election Studies

Symbolic Restitution: Post-Apartheid Changes to the South African Heritage Sector, 1994-2012

, technical definition that to some extent represents the “old museology” of museum methods, practices and standards, and SAMA’s definition that acknowledges the “new museology” that addresses the political and ... installments held during the biennales are at the center of the discussion about the post-apartheid, multicultural identities because these events showcased the nation’s political transition and commitment to

Symbolic Restitution: Post-Apartheid Changes to the South African Heritage Sector, 1994-2012

, technical definition that to some extent represents the “old museology” of museum methods, practices and standards, and SAMA’s definition that acknowledges the “new museology” that addresses the political and ... installments held during the biennales are at the center of the discussion about the post-apartheid, multicultural identities because these events showcased the nation’s political transition and commitment to

African Ethnonyms and Toponyms: An Annotated Bibliography

, and the socio-political facets. Geographical facet. One of the prominent functions of names in general is to empower the users to refer to the entities named. This is of paramount importance in the case ... -political facet. Because naming and using names constitute verbal acts as the preceding paragraph show, they lend themselves to a multitude of social practices including socio-political ones. Not surprisingly