Resultados de búsqueda - "ranking"

Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts por Youngblood, Jacob P., Cease, Arianne J., Talal, Stav, Medina, Héctor e., Rojas, Julio E., Trumper, Eduardo Victor, Angilletta Jr, Michael J., Harrison, Jon F., Copa Bazán, Fernando

“…When estimating current distributions, the top-ranked model was always the one fit with mechanistic predictors (i.e., the hybrid model). …”
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Constructing A Climate-Smart Readiness Index for smallholder farmers: The case of prioritized Bundles of Climate Information Services and Climate Smart Agriculture in Ghana por Damba, Osman Tahidu

“…There were fundamental differences in concordance in their respective rankings. A high level of concordance exist between ratings by farmers and advisors on the CS score; moderate concordance on OHA and a lower concordance on GSI. …”
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Agricultural credit access and utilization in Myanmar’s dry zone por Htun, Khun Moe, Tin, Myat Su

“…For our analysis, farm households were ranked by area of agricultural land owned, and divided into three equal groups. …”
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Positional spending and status seeking in rural China por Brown, Philip H., Bulte, Erwin, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…In particular, and consistent with theories of rank-based status seeking, we find the poor increase spending on gifts as the income distribution tightens so that local competition for status intensifies. …”
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Using group ratings to assess household food security: empirical evidence from southern Africa por Carletto, Calogero, Masangano, Charles, Bergeron, Gilles, Morris, Saul Sutkover

“…This article addresses the reliability and validity of household welfare rankings using the Group Ratings (GR) method. The GR aimed to measure the food security status of 142 households in seven villages in Malawi. …”
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Does allocation of public spending matter in poverty reduction?: Evidence from Thailand por Fan, Shenggen, Yu, Bingxin, Jitsuchon, Somchai

“…Government spending on rural roads has no significant impact on agricultural productivity and its poverty reduction impact ranks last among all investment alternatives considered. …”
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How much do our neighbors really know? The limits of community-based targeting por Trachtman, Carly, Permana, Yudistira Hendra, Sahadewo, Gumilang Aryo

“…To test this, we conduct a lab-style experiment in Central Java, in which participants rank other community members’ welfare, using benchmarks that vary in sensitivity to transitory shocks, and target small cash transfers. …”
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Comparing apples and oranges - model-based assessment of different tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis control strategies por McDermott, John J., Coleman, P.G.

“…Based on this comparison, the relative rankings of the effect of control strategies on reducing disease prevalence were: vector control, vaccination, and drug use, in that order. …”
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Comparison of greenhouse and field resistance of bean varieties to Empoasca kraemeri (Homoptera Cicadellidae) por Eskafi, F.M., Schoonhoven, Aart van

“…The relationship between plant quality (resistance) in the greenhouse and field evaluations was highly significant as measured by a rank correlation test. (AS)…”
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Reflections on the Green Growth Index for developing countries: a focus of selected African countries por Kararach, G., Nhamo, G., Mubila, M., Nhamo, S., Nhemachena, Charles, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…The top five countries on the AGGI (as ranked from 1-5) were: Namibia, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania and Togo. …”
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Adoption of soybeans in subSaharan Africa: a comparative analysis of production and utilization in Zaire and Nigeria por Shannon, D., Kalala, M.

“…Almost all production was consumed by humans, primarily as full-fat flour mixed with maize (Zea mays L.) or maize and cassava (Manihot esculenta (L) Crantz), or as roasted grain. Farmers ranked soybean second among grain legumes in area cultivated and fourth for total sales. …”
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Selection criteria of Musa cultivars as determined through a farmer participatory appraisal survey in Uganda por Gold, Cliford S., Kiggundu, A., Abera, A.M.K., Karamura, D.

“…This paper reports on a farmer survey in Uganda to record farmer selection criteria for banana cultivars as a pre-breeding activity. From ranked data, bunch size and crop maturation time were the key selection criteria in the county's most important commercial production zones. …”
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Markägarens förväntningar hos en skogsinspektor por Bjärkse, Carl, Larsson, Erik

“…The buyers were first interviewed and had to rank different alternatives that then laid the foundation for the forest owners' interview number. …”

Ghana's chili market por Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana, International Food Policy Research Institute, Amewu, Sena, Arhin, Eunice, Danso, Jane, Doughan, Roland Ato, Nafrah, Christiana, Owusu, Ivy, Pauw, Karl

“…Alongside tomato and onion, chili ranks as one of Ghana’s three most important vegetable crops in terms of hectarage and crop value with significant potential for generating income, creating jobs, and contributing to foreign exchange through exports (Gonzalez et al. 2014). …”
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On the fast track: Driving down stunting in Vietnam por Keefe, Meagan

“…From one of the five poorest countries in the world in 1984, Vietnam rose to a rank of 167 out of 206 by 1999. As the country transitioned to a market-oriented economy, rapid economic growth was accompanied by a similarly dramatic decline in the poverty rate, which fell from nearly 75 percent of the population in 1984, to 58 percent in 1993, and down to 37 percent by 1998. …”
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Assessing genetically modified cotton’s economic impact on farmers por Horna, Daniela, Falck-Zepeda, José B., Kyotalimye, Miriam

“…Studies done by APSEC (1998, 2001) ranked cotton as the lowest in profitability among the main competing crops on the global market. …”
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Synopsis: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development in Rwanda por Aragie, Emerta A., Niyonsingiza, Josue, Thurlow, James, Warner, James, Xu, Valencia Wenqian

“…The study systematically ranks investment options in the agrifood system based on their cost-effectiveness across multiple development outcomes. …”
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Analysis of immune responses to recombinant proteins from strains of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides, the causative agent of contagious Bovine pleuropneumonia por Pérez Casal, J., Prysliak, T., Maina, T., Wang, Y., Townsend, H., Berverov, E., Nkando, I., Wesonga, H.O., Liljander, Anne M., Jores, Joerg, Naessens, Jan, Gerdts, V., Potter, A.

“…Reverse vaccinology approaches were used and identified 66 candidate Mycoplasma proteins using available Mmm genome data. These proteins were ranked by their ability to be recognized by serum from CBPP-positive cattle and thereafter used to inoculate naïve cattle. …”
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Contenido de cianuro total y libre en parénquima y cáscara de raíces de diez variedades promisorias de yuca [Manihot esculenta] por Gómez, Guillermo, Cuesta, Debora de la, Valdivieso, Mauricio, Kawano, Kazuo

“…The 10 varieties were ranked according to the total cyanide in the parenchyma and the peel. …”
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Prognos vid kirurgisk behandling av kolik : en studie över 249 hästar under perioden 2002 till 2005 försäkrade i Agria por Müller, Sofia

“…For short-term survival proportions was used and for long-term it was done using Kaplan-Meier technique and log-rank testing. The overall short-term survival was defined as the horses that survived the stay at the clinic. …”