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Screening Upland Varieties of NERICA and its Parents for Resistance to Stalk-eyed Fly, Diopsis sp. (Diptera, Diopsidae) in Benin by Togola, A., Nwilene, F.E., Agbaka, A., Degila, F., Tolulope, A., Chougourou, D.

“…The study was conducted in 2008 at the AfricaRice/IITA Station, Cotonou where, 18 upland NERICA varieties and their parents (Oryza glaberrima and O. sativa) were twice screened under artificial infestation of Diopsid’s eggs and adults. …”
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A vision of a One Health system for Australia: On the need to rethink our health system by Steele, S.G., Toribio, Jenny-Ann, Mor, Siobhan M.

“…Zoonoses — diseases that transmit from vertebrate animals to humans — are twice as likely to be implicated as emerging diseases than non-zoonoses. …”
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Digital imaging outperforms traditional scoring methods for spittlebug tolerance in Urochloa humidicola hybrids by Hernández, Luis Miguel, Espitia, Paula A., Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés

“…Damage estimated from digital images showed the highest throughput (twice as fast as visual scoring from an expert), high correlations with visual scoring (r>0.80, P<0.0001) and heritability values for plant damage as good or better (>0.7) than those obtained by visual scoring from an expert. …”
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Evaluation of pro-vitamin A enriched maize hybrids for fighting hidden hunger in Nepal by Tripathi, Mahendra Prasad, Gautam, Damodar, Koirala, Keshab Babu, Shrestha, Hari Kumar, Issa, Abdurahman Beshir

“…With the objective to investigate superior pro-vitamin A enriched ‘bio-fortified’ maize cultivars, twice replicated experiments were laid out in α-lattice design over two consecutive growing seasons of 2019 and 2019/20 at the National Maize Research Program (NMRP), Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal. …”
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Public food transfers during pandemic: Insights from an IFPRI survey in Bangladesh by Chowdhury, Shyamal K., Bin Khaled, Muhammad Nahian, Raghunathan, Kalyani, Rashid, Shahidur

“…In the 2019-20 financial year, in Bangladesh, the Khaddo Bandhob Karmasuchi (Food Friendly Programme, FFP), a similar programme that offers subsidised rice during the lean season twice a year, reached about 5 million households (equivalent to 27.5 million people) at a cost of more than BDT 32.0 billion (source: Directorate General of Food). …”
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Malawi Complementary Panel Survey (CPS) 2000-2002 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The IHS was to be conducted every three to five years, while the panel survey twice a year. The final sample size of the CPS in the first round was 758 households. …”
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The evolving livestock sector in Ethiopia: Growth by heads, not by productivity by Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Minten, Bart, Tadesse, Fanaye, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…However, the number of livestock lost to deaths is still more than twice the number sold for meat production, indicating important challenges remaining for the development of the livestock sector in Ethiopia.…”
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Food for thought? Experimental evidence on the learning impacts of a large-scale school feeding program in Ghana by Aurino, Elisabetta, Gelli, Aulo, Adamba, Clement, Osei-Akoto, Isaac, Alderman, Harold

“…Program effects were at least twice as large as for the average child. Increases in enrolment, grade attainment, and shifts in time use toward schooling time constituted potential mechanisms for impact. …”
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Limitations of contract farming as a pro-poor strategy: The case of maize outgrower schemes in Upper West Ghana by Ragasa, Catherine, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Kufoalor, Doreen S.

“…Despite higher yields, the costs to produce one metric tonne of maize under CF schemes are higher than on maize farms without CF schemes, twice that of several countries in Africa, and more than seven times higher than that of major maize-exporting countries (the United States, Brazil, and Argentina). …”
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Variability and synchronism of leaf appearance and leaf elongation rates of eleven contrasting rice genotypes by Egle, Rohilyn B., Domingo, Abigail J., Bueno, Crisanta, Laurena, Antonio, C., Aguilar, Edna A., Santa Cruz, Pompe, Clerget, Benoit

“…The experiment, conducted inside a greenhouse, was repeated twice. The increase in length of the leaves expanding on the main stems was monitored daily until flag leaf. …”
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Parameters Affecting Residue Nitrogen Mineralization in Flooded Soils by Becker, M., Ladha, J.K., Simpson, I.C., Ottow, J. C. G.

“…Residue N release in clay was about twice that of sandy soil, but was not correlated with the residues' N, C/N, water, or polyphenol contents. …”
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Utilization of positive deviance analysis in evaluating community-based nutrition programs: An application to the Dular program in Bihar, India by Levinson F James, Barney, J., Bassett, Lucy, Schultink, W.

“…The analysis found that positive deviant children with normal nutritional status in the poorest 50% of Dular households were introduced to complementary food almost 2 months earlier (7.18 vs. 9.02 months of age) than severely malnourished children, were more than twice as likely to use soap for handwashing after defecation (25.0% vs. 11.8%), and were more than seven times as likely to have literate mothers (25.0% vs. 3.5%). …”
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Unique datasets on shocks, food security, and household coping strategies: Creating new analytical playgrounds to study coping behavior in the multi-shock environments of Mali, Cha... by Marivoet, Wim, Sib, Ollo, Samake, Aliou Badara, Dieme, Ndeye Fatou, Hema, Aboubacar, Doehnert, Federico, Suzuki, Mina

“…To inform the Cadre Harmonisé process in West Africa, large-scale national household surveys are usually implemented twice a year to capture data on household food security and several forms of consumption- and livelihood-based coping strategies. …”
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Advancing multivariate time series similarity assessment: an integrated computational approach by Tonle, Franck Bruno Noumbo, Tonnang, Henri E. Z., Ndadji, Milliam M. Z., Tchoupé Tchendji, Maurice, Nzeukou, Armand, Senagi, Kennedy, Niassy, Saliou

“…The results from this study highlight MTASA’s superiority, achieving approximately 1.5 times greater accuracy and twice the speed compared with existing state-of-the-art integrated frameworks for multivariate time series similarity assessment. …”
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Bundled Innovations for Sustainable Technology Adoption Among Smallholder Farmers by Jizorkuwie, Abdul, Masoud, Jalaludeen, Amankwaa-Yeboah, Particia, Ofosu-Ampong, Kingsley, Worku, Wuletawu Abera

“…The average yield of 3292 kg ha-1 realized by farmers who replicated the package on their respective farms was more than twice the regional average of 1600kg ha-1. The Improved Technology Package led to precision, decreased labour burden and overall nutrient uptake. …”
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Rehabilitation of degraded forests in lowland Kutai, East Kalimantan, Indonesia by Mori, T.

“…Forests in most lowland concession areas have been logged selectively and suffered from surface forest fires at least twice since 1970. Canopy height and dominance levels have decreased in proportion to extent and frequency of disturbances by logging and fires but the area of pioneer species has increased proportionally with degradation. …”
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Cutting management of alley cropped leucaena/gliricidia - guinea grass mixtures for forage production in southwestern Nigeria by Ezenwa, I., Reynolds, L., Akenova, M.E., Atta-Krah, A.N., Cobbina, J.

“…The hedge configuration was either one or three hedgerows of mixed stands of leucaena and gliricidia. There were twice as many trees and one-third less grass in the triple than in the single hedgerow hedge configuration. …”
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Effect of dam nutrition and suckling on lactation in Borana cows and growth in their Borana X Friesian crossbred calves in an early weaning system in Ethiopia by Tegegne, Azage, Osuji, P.O., Lahlou-Kassi, A., Mukasa-Mugerwa, E.

“…Fourty-four Borana X Friesian F1 crossbred calves born to Borana (Bos indicus) cows were randomly assigned to either suck their dams twice daily or bucket-feeding with 134 l. milk over a 57-day pre-weaning period. …”
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Post-partum reproductive function of F1 crossbred cows under smallholder management conditions in central highland of Ethiopia by Dawo, F., Zerbini, E.

“…Experimental cows were observed for signs of estrus twice per day: early in the morning and late in the afternoon by farmers. …”
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Effects of supplementary feeding and suckling intensity on postpartum reproductive performance of small East African Zebu cows by Tegegne, Azage, Entwistle, K.W., Mukasa-Mugerwa, E.

“…Within nutritional groups, cows were further assigned either to continuous suckling or to restricted suckling twice daily. Intact bulls were introduced 21 days after the first cow had calved. …”
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