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Unveiling Drought-Resilient Pathways: Integrating High Throughput Phenotyping and Multivariate Modeling to Enhance Barley Adaptation to Climate Change by Ouahid, Safae, Backhaus, Anna Elisabeth, Jimenez, José-Antonio, Visioni, Andrea, Sanchez-Garcia, Miguel

“…This large dataset is subjected to multivariate modeling to discover complex relationships between multiple traits and environmental factors. …”
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Linkages between GRACE water storage, hydrologic extremes, and climate teleconnections in major African aquifers by Scanlon, Bridget R., Rateb, Ashraf, Anyamba, Assaf, Kebede, Seifu, McDonald, Alan M., Xie, Hua

“…Water resources management is a critical issue in Africa where many regions are subjected to sequential droughts and floods. The objective of our work was to assess spatiotemporal variability in water storage and related controls (climate, human intervention) in major African aquifers and consider approaches toward more sustainable development. …”
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Effect of parboiling conditions on zinc and iron retention in biofortified and non-biofortified milled rice by Taleon, Victor, Hasan, Md. Zakiul, Jongstra, Roelinda, Wegmüller, Rita, Bashar, Mohammad Khairul

“…Zinc and iron TR in milled rice obtained from biofortified and non-biofortified rice subjected to different soaking temperatures during parboiling was also evaluated. …”
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Ask me why: Patterns of intrahousehold decision-making by Bernard, Tanguy, Doss, Cheryl R., Hidrobo, Melissa, Hoel, Jessica B., Kieran, Caitlin

“…Our approach uses vignettes, which are survey instruments used to measure concepts that are more easily defined by examples.1 Vignettes have been used to measure subjective well-being (Ravallion, Himelein, & Beegle, 2016), women’s agency (see Donald, Koolwal, Annan, Falb, & Goldstein, 2017 for a review), bias against women politicians (Beaman, Chattopadhyay, Duflo, Pande, & Topalova, 2009), as well as risk aversion (Barter & Renold, 1999). …”
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Agricultural extension and rural advisory services: What have we learned? What’s next? by Davis, Kristin E., Makhija, Simrin, Spielman, David J.

“…The framework focuses on a defined set of extension service characteristics that affect performance: governance structures and funding; organizational and management capacities and cultures; methods; and community engagement — all of which are subject to external factors such as the environment, agroecological conditions, and farming-system heterogeneity. …”
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Antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli in semi-intensive and free-range poultry farms in Uganda by Mbatidde, Irene, Ndoboli, Dickson, Ayebare, Dreck, Muloi, Dishon, Roesel, Kristina, Ochieng, Linnet, Dione, Michel M., Tenhagen, B.-A., Biryomumaisho, S., Wampande, E., Wieland, Barbara, Olsen, J.E., Moodley, Arshnee

“…The identification of presumptive <i>E. coli</i> isolated on MacConkey agar without antibiotics, was confirmed by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry and subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing by disk diffusion using EUCAST guidelines. …”
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Ethiopia Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Baseline Evaluation Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…More specifically, the survey aims to collect detailed information on the composition of the household, employment, health, agriculture, income and expenditures, credit, assets, subjective welfare and food security, shocks, and the anthropometric status of children and women.…”
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Ghana Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Baseline Evaluation Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…In particular, they are subject to a seasonal cycle of food insecurity of three to seven months for cereals (i.e., maize, millet and sorghum) and four to seven months for legumes (i.e., groundnuts, cowpeas, and soybeans). …”
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Analyse de la participation des populations dans la mise en œuvre des projets de développement : cas du projet Accélération des impacts de la recherche climatique du CGIAR pour l’A... by Dème, Sadio, Mendy, Gervais, Konaré, Fara

“…-Is the existence of a local framework for consultation a means of facilitating the implementation of projects? This subject has already been dealt with by many authors, international institutions, all with converging opinions on the importance of popular participation in the life stages of projects. …”
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Is small still beautiful? a comparative study of rice farm size and productivity in China and India by Wang, Jianying, Chen, Kevin Z., Das Gupta, Sunipa, Huang, Zuhui

“…– The farm size-productivity relationship has long been the subject of debate among development economists. Few studies address this issue for China, and those that do only with outdated data sets poorly representing the current situation after the past decade of rapid change, which includes the rapid development of land rental markets, village labor out-migration and use of farm machines. …”
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The role of market outlet in determining terms for milk sales by smallholders in Kenya by Ngigi, M., Delgado, Christopher L., Staal, Steven J., Mbogoh, S.

“…The high perishability of milk under Kenyan conditions appears to be associated with a high frequency of small individual transactions, the terms of which are subject to forced “fire” sales, delayed payments or default. …”
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Genotype-specific germination behavior induced by sustainable priming techniques in response to water deprivation stress in rice by Dueñas, Conrado, Pagano, Andrea, Calvio, Cinzia, Srikanthan, Dhanush Srikanth, Slamet-Loedin, Inez, Balestrazzi, Alma, Macovei, Anca

“…Five popular Italian rice varieties were subjected to priming treatments using novel, sustainable solutions, like poly-gamma-glutamic acid (γ-PGA), denatured γ-PGA (dPGA), and iron (Fe) pulsing, alone or in combination. …”
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A meta-QTL analysis highlights genomic hotspots associated with phosphorus use efficiency in rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Navea, Ian Paul, Maung, Phyu Phyu, Yang, Shiyi, Han, Jae-Hyuk, Jing, Wen, Shin, Na-Hyun, Zhang, Wenhua, Chin, Joong Hyoun

“…A total of 192 QTLs were subjected to meta-QTL (MQTL) analysis and were projected into a high-density SNP consensus map. …”
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Cell‐free microRNA‐148a is associated with renal allograft dysfunction: Implication for biomarker discovery by Nariman-Saleh-Fam, Ziba, Bastami, Milad, Ardalan, Mohammadreza, Sharifi, Simin, Hosseinian Khatib, Seyed Mahdi, Zununi Vahed, Sepideh

“…The level of miRNA‐148a was evaluated by the quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and correlated with clinical and histological parameters.Significantly, miRNA‐148a decreased in IFTA compared with SGF subjects (P < 0.001). MiRNA‐148a levels indicated a significant association with serum creatinine levels ( r = 0.451, P = 0.021) and glomerular filtration rate ( r = −0.520, P = 0.006). …”
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Selection improves drought tolerance in tropical maize populations: I. Gains in biomass, grain yield, and harvest index by Edmeades, G.O., Bolaños, J., Chapman, S.C., Lafitte, H.R., Bänziger, M.

“…Three late‐maturing tropical maize populations were subjected to three cycles of S1 recurrent selection (‘La Posta Sequía’ and ‘Pool 26 Sequıa’ ) or eight cycles of full‐sib recurrent selection (‘Tuxpeño Sequía’) for yield and traits indicative of drought tolerance during flowering and grain filling. …”
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Sensitivity of Pollination to Water Deficits At Anthesis in Upland Rice by Ekanayake, I.J., Steponkus, P.L., De Datta, S.K.

“…Rice (Oryza sativa L.) subjected to water deficit during anthesis shows pollination abnormalities resulting in low grain yields. …”
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Pollen Shedding and Combining Ability for High Temperature Tolerance in Rice by Mackill, D.J., Coffman, W.R., Rutger, J.N.

“…The treated plants were subjected to 38/27 C for 10 days during anthesis. A heat tolerance index was calculated by dividing the percentage of filled grains of the treated plants by that of the control plants. …”
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Preferences Over Joint vs. Individual Asset Rights by Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) Initiative

“…Individual Asset Rights, allows us to elicit responses regarding subjective assessments of the well-being of a hypothetical married individual based on whether they own and/or manage assets individually or jointly. …”
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Understanding the Meanings of Ownership by Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) Initiative

“…This tool, Understanding the Meanings of Ownership, allows us to elicit responses regarding subjective assessments of what ownership entails by presenting different scenarios in which the main premise is a woman owning a particular asset, but scenarios differ on the rights that women have over the asset. …”
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Unpacking Joint Decision-making by Measures for Advancing Gender Equality (MAGNET) Initiative

“…This tool, Unpacking Joint Decision-making, allows us to elicit responses regarding subjective assessments of a hypothetical married couple under different scenarios that involve the wife and the husband making household decisions around large household purchases. …”
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