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Determining factors and barriers to the uptake of climate change adaptation strategies of agriculture and aquaculture farm households in Myanmar
No full textPurpose
Climate change is an undeniable reality that threatens people’s livelihoods. Flooding and saltwater intrusion, along with the rising sea levels, are affecting agricultural and aquaculture livelihoods in Myanmar’s coastal areas. Although climate change adaptation is gaining popularity as a resilience strategy to cope with the negative effects of climate change, both agriculture- and aquaculture-farmers are more often deterred from implementing climate change adaptation strategies due to practical availability and socioeconomic barriers to adaptation. This study aims to evaluate the barriers and factors that influence farm household’ choice of climate change adaptation measures.
Design/methodology/approach
This study was conducted with 599 farm households (484 rice-farmers and 115 fish farmers) based in the coastal areas of Myanmar during 2021–2022 to explore the farmer’s choice of climate change adaptation measures and the determining factors. The multinomial logit regression (MLR) model was used to examine the factors influencing the farmers’ choice of climate change adaptation strategies.
Findings
The study found out that farm households use a variety of adaptation methods at the farm level, with building embankment strategy (23.4%) in agriculture and net-fencing measure (33.9%) in fish farming being the most popular adaptation strategies. Farmers’ decisions to adopt climate change adaptation strategies are influenced by factors such as distance to market, education level of the household head, remittance income and the availability of early warning information, among others. The study also discovered that COVID-19 has had an impact on the employment opportunities of household members and the income from farming as well had a consequential effect on the adoption of climate change adaptation measures. Furthermore, lack of credit (42.4%), labor shortage (52.8%), pest and disease infestation (58.9%), high input costs (81%) and lower agricultural product prices (73%) were identified as major barriers to the adoption of climate change adaptation measures by both agriculture and aquaculture farm households.
Originality/value
This study demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic and farm-level barriers are the major factors influencing farm households’ choice of climate change adaptation measures, and that removing practical farm-level barriers and encouraging the adoption of adaptation techniques as potential COVID-19 recovery actions are required. This study also highlighted that the adaptive capacity of agriculture and aquaculture farm households should be strengthened through formal and informal training programs, awareness raising, the exchange of early warning information and the development of proper credit scheme programs
FACTORS INFLUENCING INVESTOR DECISION IN YANGON STOCK EXCHANGE ( Tin Cho Aung, 2019)
No full textThis study aims to analyze the factors influencing investor decision in Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX), and this study is to identify stock trading process of Yangon Stock Exchange. This study selected the samples of 100 investors of the five listed public companies. The main purposes of the study to the analysis on influencing factors are based on demographic factor, behavior factor and economic factor. The theory is mainly based on modern portfolio theory. For the study, the descriptive research method is applied and secondary data is mainly based on Securities Exchange Laws, Rules and Regulations and Notification Letters from SECM. Primary data used of questionnaires to 100 investors of different listed companies. The study found that investing in stock market is good decision, every investment comes with some level of risk in Myanmar capital market is not too developed. There are stock investors buying and selling of the stocks of the five listed companies. So that, investing in stock market has different influencing factors. It would be suggested that YSX should improve its valuation at public listed companies, need to try to educate the stock investors as stock trading decision as prospect for that is, YSX should more educate investors that investing in stock market is the future financial security
Erratum: 3D bioprinted in vitro secondary hyperoxaluria model by mimicking intestinal-oxalatemalabsorption-related kidney stone disease (Applied Physics Reviews (2022) 9 (041408) DOI: 10.1063/5.0087345)
No full text© 2023 Author(s).This article was originally published online on 21 November 2022 with an incorrect affiliation identifier for author Dong-Woo Cho. It is correct as it appears above. All online versions of this article were corrected on 23 November 2022. AIP Publishing apologizes for this error.11Nsciescopu
Applied Excel for Business and Marketing
No full textApplied Excel is powerful to analyze business and marketing data. This paper intends to support business and marketing leaders the benefits of data forecasting with applied Excel. It showed the sale data forecasting for coming seasons. As Excel's background methods, it showed time series methods such as the FORECAST.ETS And FORECAST.ETS.SEASONALITY methods. And then Sample data 'forecast functions.xlsx' was downloaded from Google and was analyzed and viewed. It used Microsoft Excel software version 2016. Myint Myint Yee | Aung Cho | San San Nwe "Applied Excel for Business and Marketing" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26796.pd
Unimodality of Betti numbers for Hamiltonian circle actions with index-increasing moment Maps
No full textThe unimodality conjecture posed by Tolman in [L. Jeffrey, T. Holm, Y. Karshon, E. Lerman and E. Meinrenken, Moment maps in various geometries, http://www.birs.ca/workshops/2005/05w5072/report05w5072.pdf] states that if (M,ω) is a 2n-dimensional smooth compact symplectic manifold equipped with a Hamiltonian circle action with only isolated fixed points, then the sequence of Betti numbers {b0(M),b2(M),...,b2n(M)} is unimodal, i.e. bi(M) ≤ bi+2(M) for every i < n. Recently, the author and Kim [Y. Cho and M. Kim, Unimodality of the Betti numbers for Hamiltonian circle action with isolated fixed points, Math. Res. Lett. 21(4) (2014) 691-696] proved that the unimodality holds in eight-dimensional case by using equivariant cohomology theory. In this paper, we generalize the idea in [Y. Cho and M. Kim, Unimodality of the Betti numbers for Hamiltonian circle action with isolated fixed points, Math. Res. Lett. 21(4) (2014) 691-696] to an arbitrary dimensional case. We prove the conjecture in arbitrary dimension under the assumption that the moment map H : M → R is index-increasing, which means that ind(p) < ind(q) implies H(p) < H(q) for every pair of critical points p and q of H, where ind(p) is the Morse index of p with respect to H. © World Scientific Publishing Company1111sciescopu
Systems biology for reverse aging
No full textCellular senescence is an irreversible and permanent cell cycle arrest in response to internal and external stresses. Its unresponsiveness to growth factor signals distinguishes it from a potentially reversible state, quiescence. Cellular senescence can inhibit tumor development by blocking proliferation of damaged cells, but as senescent cells become accumulated in a tissue, they can contribute to the promotion of agerelated diseases such as cancer by secreting inflammatory cytokines [1]. © 2021 Cho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
The antihypertensive effects of the Jamaican Cho-Cho (Sechium edule)
No full textThe experiments reported in this study constitute a preliminary investigation into the possible hypotensive effect of the Jamaican Cho-Cho (Sechium edule). Experiments were conducted in a random and blind fashion on two sub species of Sechium edule. Both the pulp and the peel were examined for hypotensive activity. Water-soluble extracts were prepared from these components of the fruit and injected into anaesthetised rats. Various cardiovascular parameters were measured including heart rate, mean arterial pressure (MAP) and several ECG intervals. We report that all extracts tested produced a fall in blood pressure with little change in ECG intervals. Extract B produced the least change in heart rate with a fall in MAP of approximately 23 mmHg. Changes in heart rate with all extracts appeared to be minimal as an ED25 value could only be determined for extract A, and ED10 values could not be evaluated for extracts C and D. The mechanism(s) by which these extracts produce their hypotensive effects could not be determined in these preliminary experiments. However, it appears not to involve direct effects on cardiac tissue. This conclusion is based on the finding that it took a minimum of 10 to 15 seconds for the hypotensive action to manifest post bolus. Future experiments will be aimed at delineating the mechanism(s) involved in decreasing MAP.Peer reviewedfinal article publishe
Nota su Eschilo, Cho. 65
No full textThe author defends the reading ἄκραντος in the sense of “unfinished” in Aesch. Cho. 65
EFFECT OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF NON-GOVENMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS (A Case Study of NGOs in LIFT Project) ( Lei Cho Wint Aung, 2019)
No full textThe objective of the study is to examine the effect of financial accountability
on the financial performance and non-financial performance of non-governmental
organizations. In this study, the primary data is analyzed by descriptive method and
multiple linear regression techniques. Simple random sampling is used to select
respondents from 20 local non-governmental organizations and international nongovernmental
organizations collaborating for the LIFT project. Of each organization,
3 respondents working in the management role of the organization and therefore 60 in
total to conduct the survey. The range of questionnaires is used for the method for
data collection. Based on the survey results, the financial and non-financial
performance of NGOs have been related to financial accountability. Timely reporting
is statistically significant for both the financial performance and non-financial
performance of organizations out of three sets of financial accounting considerations.
Other factors may have an impact on the performance of NGOs, such as internal
control, auditing practices and other accountability mechanisms. This study focused
solely on reporting and linked to the financial performance and non-financial
performance of NGOs. Most NGOs have upheld financial accountability to a great
extent particular by timely reporting of their organizations appears as a challenge. As
the conclusion of the study, the financial accountability factors affect on the financial
performance and non-financial performance of NGOs
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