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Vasco Barbosa; Inés Santé-Riveira; Rafael Crecente-Maseda; Carlos Díaz Redondo; Juan Porta Trinidad; Jorge Parapar López; Ramón Doallo Biempica; José Ambrósio Ferreira Neto
funding, etc ; land; land use; rural development; Spain; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Rural settlements (RS) are a reality of rural areas. They consist of cluster of buildings and ways of life mainly associated with activities related to agriculture. As economic policies applied in rural development have evolved, the physical delimitation of rural areas has become more important because such areas are recipients of financial support, which depends on an area’s characteristics. Thus ...
funding, etc ; conservation areas; poverty; society; Argentina; Chile; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In this paper, we estimate the causal relationship between protected areas and poverty in Chile from 1982 to 2002. Chile is part of the coalition of countries committed to protecting 30% of the planet by 2030; a decision that implies increasing the number of protected areas in the country. As a result of this decision, grows the national debate about the potential impacts of protected areas on the ...
funding, etc ; entrepreneurship; family support; motivation; sustainable development; India; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The economic development of a nation is largely sparked by its enterprising spirit. In India, women constitute around 48 percent of the population but their participation in the economic activities is only 34 per cent. Women entrepreneurship has been recognized as an important untapped source of economic growth. In this backdrop, the present study was carried out with the objectives to study the s ...
funding, etc ; adults; children; pathogens; research and development; tuberculosis; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In this article, we highlight technological pediatric TB research advances across the TB care cascade; discuss recently completed or ongoing work in adults and corresponding significant research gaps for children; and offer recommendations and opportunities to increase investments and accelerate pediatric TB R&D. ...
funding, etc ; economic development; entropy; models; stock exchange; technology; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This research examines the spatial effect of financial development and technological innovation on green growth in China using the Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) based on the 30 provinces’ panel data from 2011 to 2018. The green growth index is measured by using Entropy Weight Method (EWM). The results show that: First, the development scale of financial institutions (lnFDS) in the local province has ...
funding, etc ; education; food quality; gold; stigma; transportation; British Columbia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The British Columbia Farmers’ Market Nutrition Coupon Program (FMNCP) provides low-income households with coupons valued at $21/week for 16 weeks to purchase healthy foods in farmers’ markets. Our objective was to explore FMNCP participants’ experiences of accessing nutritious foods, and perceived programme outcomes. The current study used qualitative description methodology. Semi-structured inter ...
funding, etc ; development aid; fiscal policy; frequency; models; multipliers; taxes; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The size of regional fiscal multipliers determines the efficacy of fiscal stimulus, the costs of fiscal austerity and whether countercyclical fiscal policy is more effective at the federal or local level. This paper studies fiscal multipliers in regions of a monetary union—US states, Eurozone members, or countries with a hard exchange-rate peg—and how multipliers are affected by the way spending i ...
funding, etc ; compliance; ethics; forensic sciences; genetics; humans; industry; models; Show all 8 Subjects
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... An essential element of compliance with ethical standards in scientific research is the reporting of a verifiable declaration of ethical approval and, when human subjects are involved - informed consent, in published works. The level of reporting of ethical permission for research published in forensic and investigative sciences journals has not been explored to date. Hence, we examined the report ...
funding, etc ; circular economy; environmental protection; structural equation modeling; surveys; Austria; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Repair is a central component of a circular economy to extend the operational phase of products. Yet, the number of repair service providers as well as demand for repair have declined over the last decades, while more products than ever before were sold. Thus, for a successful transition from a linear to a circular economy the demand for repair services must be boosted to promote repair business. ...
funding, etc ; census data; farm labor; farms; issues and policy; France; Show all 6 Subjects
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... There is growing concern about the evolution of working conditions for employees on European farms. In the new Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), financial support to farmers will soon be subject to a social conditionality clause. As a result of this change in CAP regulations, in this paper we ask if the need for specific advice can already be foreseen? Examining recent investigations that focused o ...
funding, etc ; capital; empirical research; higher education; towns; universities; urbanization; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... This study examines the dynamics of university towns by focusing on the role of universities in China’s (sub)urbanisation. Based on statistical data, the spatial expansion of universities is recognised as an integral component of the capital accumulation strategy at the interface of higher education and urbanisation. An empirical study of Shanghai further details the land-tuition-leverage strategy ...
funding, etc ; case studies; cities; coasts; infrastructure; interviews; lakes; planning; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... The miraculous growth of China, particularly in its large cities, has received much attention in recent decades. Most literature, however, concentrates on large and developed coastal regions or globalizing cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen; far less is known about central or western cities, where the unprecedented growth and new construction are also taking place. Moreover, ...
funding, etc ; econometric models; issues and policy; risk management; tea; technology; Vietnam; Show all 7 Subjects
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... This article aims to analyze the impact of ecological aspects on technical efficiency (TE), especially for tea farmers in Vietnam. First, farm-level data of tea farmers from 245 mountain regions are selected and used. Secondly, a four-component stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) strategy is applied to measure the impact of ecological aspects on TE of regional tea farmers. The results of the fronti ...
funding, etc ; business enterprises; cleaning; debt; environmental law; environmental quality; journals; manufacturing; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The role of environmental information disclosure (EID) in debt financing for penalized enterprises remains limited in the current literature. This research seeks to investigate this topic by focusing on manufacturing firms that have been penalized by the Chinese government for violating environmental rules and regulations. Further, it analyzes how environmental administrative penalties impact the ...
funding, etc ; educational status; electric energy consumption; electricity; energy; energy policy; prices; surveys; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Households play a very relevant role in energy demand in general and electricity demand in particular. Although electricity is an essential product in our daily life, reductions of electricity demand have generally been defended on environmental and energy security grounds. The aim of this paper is to analyse the level and the drivers of efficiency in household electricity consumption using an est ...
funding, etc ; brownfields; chemical industry; industrialization; landscapes; local government; shrinkage; surveys; urbanization; Slovakia; Show all 10 Subjects
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... This study examines the impact of socialist industrialisation from the 1950s to 1989 and deindustrialisation from 1989 on urban development and landscape transformation in Strážske—the former centre of the chemical industry in Eastern Slovakia. We focus on contemporary challenges: the emergence of brownfields, environmental burdens, and urban shrinkage, to propose strategies for creating a sustain ...
Frédéric Debellut; Rouden Mkisi; Vincent Masoo; Mike Chisema; Dennis Mwagomba; Mphatso Mtenje; Fumbani Limani; Donnie Mategula; Boston Zimba; Clint Pecenka
funding, etc ; World Health Organization; children; decision making; immunization; typhoid fever; vaccines; Malawi; Show all 8 Subjects
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... There is a substantial typhoid burden in sub-Saharan Africa, and TCV has been introduced in two African countries to date. Decision-makers in Malawi decided to introduce TCV and applied for financial support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in 2020. The current plan is to introduce TCV as part of the national immunization program in late 2022. The introduction will include a nationwide campaign tar ...
funding, etc ; entropy; face; municipal solid waste; neural networks; prediction; waste management; China; Show all 8 Subjects
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... With the increase in municipal solid waste (MSW), most cities face solid waste management issues. In this study, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and artificial neural network (ANN) models were improved to assess the MSW separation capability based on 18 selected indicators of solid waste separation in 15 cities in China. The entropy weight method (EWM) was used in AHP to optimize and determin ...
funding, etc ; European Union; energy; markets; mathematical models; natural gas; supply balance; uncertainty; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The European natural gas market is undergoing fundamental changes that foster uncertainty on both supply and demand sides. This uncertainty has elicited questions about the value of the Projects of Common Interest—strategic infrastructure investments supported by public funding from the European Union. This paper addresses this matter by deploying the adaptive robust optimization framework to cons ...
funding, etc ; forest stands; forests; loans; nonindustrial private forests; risk; small businesses; Indonesia; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The use of low or non-risk assets as collateral is common practice. However, if only the forest stand, which does not include the land where the forest stand is located, can be used as collateral for a loan with a low interest rate, then a new chapter of forestry history has been born. Low interest rate loans with forest stands as collateral have been adopted in Indonesia as a new scheme of provid ...