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Adoption and diffusion of no tillage practices in Southern Spain olive groves
Get PDFThis paper analyses the process of adoption of no tillage in South-eastern Spain’s olive groves. Olive tree groves in South-eastern Spain’s mountainous areas are subject to a high risk of soil erosion, which is the main environmental problem for this crop, and have to incur in high costs of soil conservation. This results in a greater difficulty to comply with the practices required to benefit from both the single payment and agri-environmental schemes. In many high-steeped areas, farmers have opted for non-tillage practices as an alternative to other conservation practices. Using our own data from a survey carried out in 2006 among 215 olive tree farmers from the Granada Province in Southern Spain regarding the adoption of soil conservation and management practices, we model the diffusion process of no tillage practices using several specifications (logistic, Gompertz and exponential). We also estimate an ordered probit model to analyse which socio-economic and institutional factors determine the adoption of no tillage. Our results show that 90% of farmers in the area of study perform no tillage with either localized (21%) or no localized (69%) application of weedicides. The diffusion process of no tillage has been very intense since the middle nineties, and has been based on the interactions among farmers in the area of study rather than in external factors such as EU policies or extension services. Among other relevant factors that positively affect the adoption of no tillage practices in general, such as farm size and irrigation, the probability of a farmer adopting no tillage with non-localized application of weedicides increases when there is a relative that will continue with the farming activity, what causes the farmer to incorporate long term effects in his farming decisions, when the farmer is only a manager or when he bought the farm rather than inherited it (i.e. on more professionalized farms), and with his educational level. These results confirm some findings from previous studies in other nearby areas.Spanish olive groves, soil erosion, no tillage, Crop Production/Industries, Land Economics/Use,
Pengembangan Media Layanan Informasi Kesiapan Diri untuk Menikah dan Berkeluarga Remaja Perempuan
No full textABSTRAK Agustin, Erlis. 2013. Pengembangan Media Layanan Informasi Kesiapan Diri untuk Menikah dan Berkeluarga Remaja Perempuan. Skripsi, Jurusan Bimbingan dan Konseling, Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Negeri Malang. Pembimbing: (I) Dra. Elia Flurentin, M.Pd. (II) Dr. Andi Mappiare A.T, M.Pd. Kata Kunci: kesiapan diri untuk menikah dan berkeluarga, media layanan informasi, remaja perempuan Menikah merupakan salah satu kebutuhan dasar manusia dan dengan adanya kesiapan diri untuk melakukannya, maka seseorang akan mendapatkan kepuasan. Banyak kasus terkait pernikahan dan hidup berkeluarga, seperti pernikahan dini, perceraian, individu takut menghadapi pernikahan, dan lain-lain yang terjadi di masyarakat juga menjadi alasan pentingnya informasi kesiapan diri untuk menikah dan berkeluarga. Mempersiapkan diri menghadapi pernikahan dan hidup berkeluarga harus mulai dilakukan oleh remaja sekolah menengah atas karena merupakan salah satu tugas perkembangan yang harus dicapai. Bimbingan dan konseling mempunyai banyak teknik dan metode dalam membantu siswa menuju perkembangan optimal. Penulis tertarik untuk mengembangkan sebuah media yang dapat membantu siswa untuk memperoleh informasi kesiapan pernikahan dan hidup berkeluarga. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah memperoleh deskripsi mengenai keterterimaan dan kelayakan media layanan informasi baik dari segi materi/isi maupun dari segi bentuk. Setelah diperoleh hasil deskripsi tersebut diharapkan pada akhirnya dihasilkan produk berupa buku bergambar mengenai kesiapan diri untuk menikah dan berkeluarga remaja perempuan serta buku pedoman konselor sebagai petunjuk dalam menggunakan buku bergambar. Penulis mengadaptasi prosedur pengembangan Borg and Gall yang dipadukan dengan analisis basic or generic qualitative study. Pengembang hanya memakai lima dari sepuluh prosedur pengembangan Borg and Gall karena adanya keterbatasan waktu penelitian. Untuk lebih menyempurnakan produk, penulis menambah data penguat berupa uji kelompok kecil. Penelitian ini menghasilkan media layanan informasi yang dapat diterima dan layak dari segi isi/materi dan bentuk dengan konten kesiapan diri untuk menikah dan berkeluarga remaja perempuan sesuai dengan kajian konsep/teori dan hasil uji ahli serta calon pengguna produk. Produk yang dihasilkan adalah sebuah buku bergambar kesiapan diri untuk menikah dan berkeluarga remaja perempuan dan buku pedoman konselor. Berdasarkan hasil uji ahli dan calon pengguna, buku bergambar dan buku pedoman konselor telah memenuhi kriteria keterterimaan dan kelayakan baik dari segi isi/materi maupun dari segi bentuk/desain, tetapi masih diperlukan revisi. Penelitian ini mempuyai keterbatasan yakni hanya sampai pada lima tahapan Borg and Gall. Penulis mengharapkan adanya peneliti lain yang bisa melanjutkan penelitian ini agar nantinya diperoleh sebuah produk yang lebih sempurna (teruji keefektifannya) sesuai dengan prosedur yang dicetuskan oleh Borg and Gall serta bermanfaat bagi konselor dan siswa.
Framing gender intersections in the European Union: What implications for the quality of intersectionality in policies?
No full textThis article explores the extent to which the emergence of an antidiscrimination policy in the European Union (EU) implies a shift in EU gender equality policies towards an intersectional approach. The frame analysis of EU gender equality policy documents shows that intersectional dimensions are increasingly present but they are treated implicitly and from a separate perspective, and the inclusion of a wide range of inequalities often implies a degendering of the policy content. We assess the implications of the identified intersectionality trends for the quality of intersectionality in gender equality policies, and we suggest the practice of an "intersectionality impact assessment" as a way to improve the quality of EU policy-making. © 2011 The Author
Author Correction: National Identity Predicts Public Health Support During a Global Pandemic (nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (517), 10.1038/S41467-021-27668-9)
No full textIn this article the author name ‘Agustin Ibanez’ was incorrectly written as ‘Augustin Ibanez’. The original article has been corrected. © The Author(s) 2022
Author Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (517), 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9)
No full textIn this article the author name ‘Agustin Ibanez’ was incorrectly written as ‘Augustin Ibanez’. The original article has been corrected
Author Correction: National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic (Nature Communications, (2022), 13, 1, (517), 10.1038/s41467-021-27668-9)
No full textIn this article the author name ‘Agustin Ibanez’ was incorrectly written as ‘Augustin Ibanez’. The original article has been corrected.</p
Protecting the historic buildings of Mexico: the barrel vault of San Agustin Church in Morelia
Get PDFHeritage in Mexico is endangered due to exposure to major hazard events and lack of maintenance. The level of knowledge
necessary to evaluate structural behavior of historic buildings is generally low, mainly regarding the parameters such as mechanical properties. San Agustin church is one of the most important historical buildings in Morelia City, Mexico. Thus, a comprehensive analysis of the San
Agustin church was performed, including a damage survey and dynamic identification tests. Based on the diagnosis, a 3D finite element
model with solid elements was developed and calibrated. Then, a seismic assessment was carried out using pushover analysis. The findings
about the damage obtained from the numerical analysis is consistent with the actual condition of the church. Finally, a partial model was
developed to evaluate the performance of the nave barrel vault strengthened with an extrados masonry arch and a layer of carbon fabricreinforced cementitious matrix, an intervention that substantially increased the horizontal load capacity.The authors would like to acknowledge Dr. Carlos Eduardo Mendoza Rosales and Dr. Jose Cabrera Aceves for the architectural data provided for the development of this work, and Eng. Rodolfo Gaytan for support during dynamic identification testing. Finally, the first author would like to thank the CONACyT grant
Begins... La administracion de Justicia, que es la base fundamental de la sociedad y el objeto de todo pacto social, no debe ser indiferente á ninguno de los individuos que viven sujetos á unas mismas leyes
No full textPublic statement issued by Agustin Yañez on behalf of Manuel Porres Baranda de Estrada, concerning the latter's law-suit with José de Mestas over the rightful ownership of assets. Possible author, Agustin Yañe
Sectoral allocation by gender of Latin American workers over the liberalization period of the 1990s
Get PDFThe recent restructuring of Latin American economies has renewed interest in the effects of trade liberalization, on labor markets, and on the gender division of labor. The author does not attempt to establish casuality between economic reforms, and the types of jobs that men and women hold. Instead, she provides a detailed description of the trends in male, and female formal, and informal sector participation during the economic reform period in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica. The author first compares the gender composition of the formal, informal wage, and self-employment sectors in a year before reforms (1988 for Argentina, 1989 for Brazil, and Costa Rica), and a year after reforms implementation (1997 for Argentina, 1995 for Brazil and Costa Rica). Although women continued to be more likely than men to work in the informal wage sector, there is no trend of"masculinization"or"feminization"of the informal sector, or any other. Instead, in Argentina men have overtaken women as the most prevalent workers in the informal wage sector, while in Brazil, the opposite has occurred (as men move into self-employment). In Costa Rica there have been no statistical, observable changes. The author then considers the distribution across sectors within each gender group, to identify whether men, and women are more likely to select different sectors in the post-reform period relative to the pre-reform period. Among both men, and women in all three countries (except Brazilian men), workers have become more likely to hold informal wage jobs, and less likely to hold formal sector jobs. Trends in human capital accumulation explain these changes for both men, and women, while changes in gender roles, primarily in homecare and marriage, do not seem to have an effect.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Labor Policies,Population&Development,Public Health Promotion,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Population&Development,Banks&Banking Reform,Work&Working Conditions
Breadwinner or caregiver? - how household role affectslabor choices in Mexico
Get PDFRecent volatility in the Mexican economy, has required households to alter patterns of participation in the labor force, voluntarily or not. The author uses panel data to examine patterns of labor force entry among adult men, and women with different household responsibilities, asking whether gender is a primary determinant, shaping these patterns. She finds that labor supply patterns are driven more by household role, than by gender. Heads of households, regardless of sex, behave similarly. Women who have neither spouses, nor children behave more like men, than like married women. They are also more likely than any other group to have inflexible, higher-paying jobs in the formal sector - which raises the question: Do employers discriminate, based on gender, or on household structure? She also detects a strong added-worker effect among secondary workers, a result not detected in the labor markets of developed countries that have social insurance programs. Finally she finds that wives'choice of sector during downturns, is subject to the households'earning needs, that husbands use informal wage, or contract employment as an employer of last resort, only in response to negative income shocks to the household, and that single mothers do not select the informal sector over the formal sector in response to either expected, or realized negative income shocks. The policy implications? Interventions that target women aren't necessarily appropriate, because women are heterogeneous. And programs that aid household heads - male or female - should be directed toward employment that will last beyond the economic shock.Environmental Economics&Policies,Labor Markets,Educational Policy and Planning,Labor Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Labor Markets,Educational Policy and Planning,Health Monitoring&Evaluation
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