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sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121221139150 – Supplemental material for Worldwide magnitude of inguinal hernia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121221139150 for Worldwide magnitude of inguinal hernia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies by Melese Shenkut Abebe, Amare Abera Tareke, Addis Alem, Wondwossen Debebe and Altaseb Beyene in SAGE Open Medicine</p
sj-xlsx-2-smo-10.1177_20503121221139150 – Supplemental material for Worldwide magnitude of inguinal hernia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xlsx-2-smo-10.1177_20503121221139150 for Worldwide magnitude of inguinal hernia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies by Melese Shenkut Abebe, Amare Abera Tareke, Addis Alem, Wondwossen Debebe and Altaseb Beyene in SAGE Open Medicine</p
sj-docx-3-smo-10.1177_20503121221139150 – Supplemental material for Worldwide magnitude of inguinal hernia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-smo-10.1177_20503121221139150 for Worldwide magnitude of inguinal hernia: Systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based studies by Melese Shenkut Abebe, Amare Abera Tareke, Addis Alem, Wondwossen Debebe and Altaseb Beyene in SAGE Open Medicine</p
Non-Traditional Exports, Traditional Constraints: The Adoption and Diffusion of Cash Crops among Smallholders in Guatemala
Get PDFMore than two decades after non-traditional export crops (NTXs) were introduced to the central highlands of Guatemala to link farmers to global markets and foster rural development, this study uses duration analysis to explore how time-varying household characteristics and external trends play into both the adoption and diffusion processes of NTX among smallholders. Adoption was widespread and rapid, which led the project to be hailed as a pro-poor success, reaching all but the smallest landholders. Potential benefits of NTXs have proven to be high, but constraints to sustained adoption also numerous, particularly in the second decade of the period considered. Over time, more than two-thirds of adopters eventually dropped out, reverting back to more traditional crops, or leaving agriculture altogether. Based on a second round of a 20-year panel survey carried out by the authors, the analysis suggests that smallholders are quite responsive to price incentives when making their repeated decision to continue adopting overtime. Also, in line with previous findings, land size does not seem important in the decision to adopt. However, land quality emerges as a significant factor in prolonging NTX production over time. Overall, the findings suggest that, in the long-run, NTX production does not appear to have been as pro-poor as initially hoped, and that institutions and policy interventions were able to only partially offset these difficulties in favor of less endowed farmers.Crop Production/Industries, International Relations/Trade,
Non-traditional crops, traditional constraints : the adoption and diffusion of export crops among guatemalan smallholders
Get PDFThis paper uses a duration analysis based on adoption data spanning more than 25 years from six communities in the Central Highlands of Guatemala. The analysis explores how household characteristics and external trends play into both the adoption and diffusion processes of non-traditional exports among smallholders. Adoption was initially widespread and rapid, which led nontraditional exports to be hailed as a pro-poor success, reaching all but the smallest landholders. However, over time more than two-thirds of adopters eventually dropped out of production of nontraditional exports. Based on the analysis, production of nontraditional exports appears to have delivered less prosperity to adopters than initially promised. Although smallholders may be enticed into entering into nontraditional exports markets when conditions are favorable, they may lack the capacity to overcome the difficulties that inevitably arise in complex types of cultivations and in highly variable global agricultural markets. Governmental and non-governmental organizations can attempt to mitigate these difficulties, but market forces may overwhelm their efforts, with some adopters still unable to compete in global markets.Access to Finance,Rural Development Knowledge&Information Systems,Economic Theory&Research,Markets and Market Access,Rural Poverty Reduction
Factors influencing adoption of new wheat techniques in Wolmera and Addis Alem areas of Ethiopia
No full textA study was conducted in two woredas, Addis Alem and Wolmera, to investigate (1) the level of farmers' awareness and adoption of recommended and demonstrated technologies; (2) the extent and intensity to which farmers have adopted these technologies; and (3) the objective and subjective factors affecting adoption. A total of 156 farmers were randomly selected and interviewed using a pre-tested questionnaire. The study showed that the vast majority of the surveyed farmers had reached the state of continuous adoption: about 89 percent for fertilizer, 79 percent for herbicide and 49 percent for new improved varieties of wheat. Although fertilizer and herbicide (2,4-D) are widely used in the study areas, average fertilizer and herbicide application were well below the recommended rate for all the crops. The Probit and Tobit regression models were used for this study and the results indicated that the perceived profitability of the new wheat technologies and the timely availability of fertilizer and herbicide had the most significant effect on farmers' decisions to adopt. Distance of respondents' homes from extension centers also influenced the probability of adopting improved wheat variety, as well as the intensity of fertilizer and herbicide use. Characteristics of the household and household heads had little influence on the adoption decisions of these farmers. This suggests that improved production packages have been extensively diffused so that the knowledge of the benefits of using the new technologies is widespread. Moreover, extension efforts and input availability are most crucial in influencing adoption
Globalization and Smallholders: The Adoption, Diffusion, and Welfare Impact of Non-traditional Export Crops in Guatemala
Get PDFThis paper uses a duration analysis based on adoption data spanning over 25 years from six communities in the Central Highlands of Guatemala to explore how household characteristics and external trends play into both the adoption and diffusion processes of non-traditional exports among smallholders. Adoption was initially widespread and rapid, which led NTX to be hailed as a pro-poor success, reaching all but the smallest landholders. However, over time more than two-thirds of the adopters eventually dropped out from NTX production. Based on the analysis, NTX production appeared to have delivered less prosperity to adopters than initially promised. While smallholders may be enticed into entering into NTX markets when conditions are favourable, they may lack the capacity to overcome difficulties that inevitably arise in complex types of cultivations and in highly variable global agricultural markets. Governmental and non-governmental organizations can attempt to mitigate these difficulties, but market forces may overwhelm these efforts, with some adopters still unable to compete in global markets.globalization, land, smallholders, non-traditional exports
sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121211052861 – Supplemental material for Factors influencing the occurrence of electrolyte disorders in cancer patients
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121211052861 for Factors influencing the occurrence of electrolyte disorders in cancer patients by Addis Alem, Chala Kenenisa Edae, Endriyas Kelta Wabalo, Amare Abera Tareke, Almaz Ayalew Bedanie, Wondu Reta, Moyeta Bariso, Gadisa Bekele and Belay Zawdie in SAGE Open Medicine</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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