Search Results - "causality"

Scaling up radio and ICTs for enhanced extension delivery and development impact: Quantitative baseline report by Ragasa, Catherine, Carrillo, Lucia, Balakasi, Kelvin

“…It also provides the impact evaluation strategy for the overall project as well as a causal impact evaluation of a major component of the project (impact ICT hubs).…”
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Ocorrencia de "filodia" em mandioca by Fukuda, C., Paguio, O. de la R., Lozano, J.C.

“…Studies to identify the causal agent, methods of transmission, and control of the disease are in progress. …”
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Avances en la investigación de la moniliasis del cacao en Colombia. by Merchán Vargas, V.M.

“…En el caso específico del agente causal de la enfermedad se utiliza el nombre de Moniliophthora roreri, en lugar del sinónimo Monilia roreri…”
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Dr. Agro, un aliado para el campo colombiano

“…Dr. agro es una herramienta de bolsillo que le permite al usuario conocer con mayor profundidad el agente causal como plagas, enfermedades o deficiencias nutricionales, que lo orientan para tomar decisiones en tiempo real y definir las acciones de manejo y control para sus cultivos…”
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Viruses and Phytoplasma Reported on the Most Important Vegetable Crops in Syria: A Review by Ismaeil, Faiz, Mando, Jamal, alkhalaf, Mohamad, Kumari, Safaa

“…Tens of studies were implemented with the aim of identifying those causal agents on the most important vegetable crops grown in the country and finding out the appropriate approaches for their effective control. …”
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Perspective: What does stunting really mean? A critical review of the evidence by Leroy, Jef L., Frongillo, Edward A.

“…Current evidence and understanding of mechanisms does not support this causal thinking, with 2 exceptions: linear growth retardation is a cause of difficult births and poor birth outcomes. …”
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Biofortification, crop adoption and health information: Impact pathways in Mozambique and Uganda by de Brauw, Alan, Eozenou, Patrick, Gilligan, Daniel O., Hotz, Christine, Kumar, Neha, Meenakshi, J.V.

“…We report evidence from similar randomized field experiments conducted in Mozambique and Uganda to promote OFSP. We further use causal mediation analysis to study impact pathways for adoption and dietary intakes. …”
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Innovation process tracing assessment: Methodological approach and guiding principles by Giordano, Nicola, Aston, Thomas, Wadeson, Alix Sara, Adamseged, Elias, Michalscheck, Mirja, Minh, Thai Thi

“…The selection process is guided by the "causal hotspot" strategy for Contribution Analysis (CA) combined with Outcome Harvesting (OH), which helps identify key areas of impact prior to the PT application. …”
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The complex geography of domestication of the African rice Oryza glaberrima by Choi, Jae Young, Zaidem, Maricris, Gutaker, Rafal, Dorph, Katherine, Singh, Rakesh Kumar, Purugganan, Michael D.

“…Phylogeographic analysis of genes involved in the core domestication process suggests that the origins of causal domestication mutations could be traced to wild progenitors in multiple different locations in West and Central Africa. …”
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Sensitive detection of Xanthomonas oryzae Pathovars oryzae and oryzicola by loop-mediated isothermal amplification by Lang, Jillian M., Langlois, Paul, Nguyen, Marian Hanna R., Triplett, Lindsay R., Purdie, Laura, Holton, Timothy A., Djikeng, Appolinaire, Vera Cruz, Casiana M., Verdier, Valérie, Leach, Jan E.

“…We developed primers highly specific for two globally important rice pathogens, Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the causal agent of bacterial blight (BB) disease, and X. oryzae pv. oryzicola, the causal agent of bacterial leaf streak disease (BLS), for use in reliable, sensitive LAMP assays. …”
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Farmers agronomic management responses to extreme drought and rice yields in Bihar, India by Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Kishore, Avinash, Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan, Sherpa, Sonam, Saxena, Satyam, Pinjarla, Bhavani, Urfels, Anton, Poonia, Shishpal, Ajay, Anurag, Craufurd, Peter, Malik, Ram K., McDonald, Andrew J.

“…Our model addresses the empirical challenge of identifying a credible control group and conducting a counterfactual causal analysis when a factor like drought is widespread and affects nearly all sampled farmers. …”
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Farmers agronomic management responses to extreme drought and rice yields in Bihar, India by Mkondiwa, Maxwell, Kishore, Avinash, Veetil, Prakashan Chellattan, Sherpa, Sonam, Saxena, Satyam, Pinjarla, Bhavani, Urfels, Anton, Poonia, Shishpal, Ajay, Anurag, Craufurd, Peter, Malik, Ram, McDonald, Andrew

“…This model addresses the empirical challenge of conducting a counterfactual causal analysis when a factor like drought affects nearly all sampled farmers. …”
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Molecular characterization of new viral agents causing old citrus diseases by deep sequencing of small RNAs by Velázquez, Karelia, Hervàs, J., Guerri, José, Vives, María C.

“…There are some graft-transmissible citrus diseases such as incompatibility of varieties grafted on trifoliate rootstocks, impietratura and cristacortis that, although they have been described for many years in many citrus growing areas, their causal agent is still unknown and rapid detection methods could not be developed. …”
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Caída de frutos de los cítricos después de la floración, en Belice. I. Epidemiología de la enfermedad by Fagan, H.J.

“…Se encontró peritecios de Glomerella cingulata en hojas de cítricos descomponiéndose en el suelo y en menor cantidad en el agua recogida de los árboles, la infección primaria de las inflorescencias se atribuye principalmente a los conidios de C gloeosporioides proveniente de floraciones fuera de ciclo aunque conidios por filoplana de Colletotrichum puede también ser un agente causal.…”
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Aspectos biológicos y ecológicos de Steneotarsonemus spinki en arroz, en Cuba by Ramos, M., Rodríguez, H.

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Effekterna av mer utbildning om djur i grundskolan by Bergengrip, Hugo

“…There seems to be a relation between empathy for humans and animals where higher empathy for one predicts a higher empathy for the other, however it is not yet known whether this relation is causal or not. If there is a causal link between the empathy for humans and animals, education to heighten empathy for animals could also heighten the empathy for humans, which could have large societal effects such as decreased crime. …”
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Mal de Viñas del café: ¿biótico o abiótico? by Morales, Helda, Palmieri, Margarita, Dix, Michael W.

“…A pesar de los esfuerzos realizados por diversas instituciones no se ha determinado cuál es su agente causal. La sintomatología del MDV (amarillamiento y defoliación irreversibles, así como pobre desarrollo radicular) sugiere que el agente causal es un patógeno. …”
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Cuantificación de la intensidad y pérdidas potenciales producidas por la marchitez del maní, Comasa, Nicaragua by Deshon G., Carlos A.

“…Para la determinación del agente causal se muestreó, en un total de 10,600 ha, 60 plantas con síntomas de marchitez. …”
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The WorldFish Experience with Impact Assessment by Rossignoli, Cristiano

“…This presentation focuses on impact assessment, which measures changes attributed to specific interventions such as projects, programs, or policies. It aims to identify causal effects while distinguishing them from other influencing factors. …”
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Disease resistance characterisation of improved cassava genotypes to Cassava Mosaic Disease at different ecozones by Ariyo, O.A., Dixon, Alfred G.O., Atiri, G.I., Gachomo, E.W., Kotchoni, S.O.

“…African cassava mosaic virus in single infection was the predominant causal agent of CMD in IITA experimental fields under study.…”
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