16,058 research outputs found
Pesticides: What you don't know can hurt you
No full textAgricultural intensification can negatively affect farmer and social welfare through health and environmental externalities if producers have imperfect knowledge of the risks posed by agricultural inputs. This paper explores the effects of health-risk information on the demand for substitutes in the pesticides market and farmer preferences for risk-mitigating technologies using a choice experiment integrated with a randomized controlled trial in Zambia. Environmental health-risk information provided through a farmer training program had an insignificant effect on demand for risk-mitigating personal protective equipment, but a significant effect on demand for substitutes, lower toxicity pesticides. The treatment group was twice as likely to substitute a highly toxic pesticide with a low toxicity pesticide after receiving training. What farmers do not know can hurt them and the environment through lower demand for less risky and less damaging substitutes
Dr. Joseph H. Peck, author of "All about men"
No full textBlack and white photograph of Dr. Joseph H. Peck, author of "All about men," about 1958, when the book was published
Histoire Complete de Joseph
No full textThe Joseph story in Genesis was a subject of great interest to Syriac writers, and in this volume Bedjan presents the Syriac text (in vocalized East Syriac script) of a lengthy and highly praised poem on the subject, sometimes attributed to Ephrem, but more recently to the fifth-century author Balai. The poem consists of twelve homilies (memre) in the 7 + 7 meter, the subjects of which are: 1. On jealousy and the sale of Joseph, 2. Bringing his coat to his father, 3. Going down to Egypt and his sale to Potiphar, 4. His temptation, 5. His imprisonment, 6. His exaltation, 7. His brothers going down to Egypt, 8. Benjamin going down to Egypt, 9. Joseph revealing himself to his brothers, 10. News of Joseph reaching his father, 11. The death of Jacob, and 12. Joseph’s death. An appendix contains a poem on the translation of Joseph’s bones
A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing
No full textIn this latest Advance & Rutgers Report, entitled “A Tripartite Post-Recession Rebalancing,” Dean James W. Hughes and Professor Joseph J. Seneca deliver an incisive assessment of the current market conditions and obstacles in the path of our economic recovery. They offer a statistical cautionary tale that the private and public sector need to hear and acknowledge in order for the economy to make continued progress.This report was published as Issue Paper Number 7, November 2011, in Advance & Rutgers Report
Letter from Joseph R. Goodman to Akiko Nishioka, May 27, 1942
No full textLetter from Joseph R. Goodman to Akiko Nishioka, regarding Japanese American students from the west coast who resettled at colleges and universities in the east.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
No full textHistorian Joseph Crespino interviews Decatur, Georgia-based historical novelist, Thomas Mullen, author of Darktown (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016), The Revisionists (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2011), The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (New York: Random House, 2010), and The Last Town on Earth (New York: Random House, 2006)
Supporting disabled children and their families in Scotland: A review of policy and research
No full textThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been supporting research about disabled children and their families for a number of years. An earlier Foundations covering the messages from these projects has already been published (1). This Foundations places the messages from that work into the Scottish context. It gives an overview of current policies affecting disabled children and their families in Scotland and draws on research carried out north of the border
Impacts of government maize supports on smallholder cotton production in Zambia
No full textIMPACTS OF GOVERNMENT MAIZE SUPPORTS ONSMALLHOLDER COTTON PRODUCTION IN ZAMBIAByJoseph Christopher Goeb In Zambia, cotton has been an agricultural success story led by private cotton ginneries and smallholder production. Since liberalization in 1994, the cotton sector has seen periods of dramatic growth and two severe crashes. Production recovered well after the crash in 2000, but recovery since 2007 has not been as strong. The Zambian government has drastically increased its supports to smallholder production of maize since the 2005 harvest year through maize purchases by the Food Reserve Agency (FRA) and subsidized fertilizer targeted to maize through the Farmer Input Support Program (FISP). Because cotton is almost entirely produced in the country's main "maize belt", these maize supports in principle also affect the relative profitability of cotton, but any effects directly on smallholder cotton cropping decisions are largely unknown. This thesis attempts to move towards understanding the effects of the FRA and FISP maize supports on smallholder cotton production in Zambia. Two separate Cragg hurdle models are employed to determine the effects of the maize supports on i) smallholders' decisions whether to plant cotton, and ii) their land allocation decisions to cotton given that they decided to plant it. We also track household cotton planting decisions over a ten year period and analyze across several household indicators.Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, 2011Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-113
The new enfant du siècle: Joseph de Maistre as a writer
No full textThe essays contained within this volume were first presented at Reappraisals/Reconsidérations, the Fifth International Colloquium on Joseph de Maistre, held at Jesus College, Cambridge on 4 and 5 December 2008.Series editor-in-chief: Guy Rowlands, University of St AndrewsJoseph de Maistre's reputation as a writer is legendary. His style, unique and alive, moulded the French language anew. It sabotaged his attempts at anonymous publication and earned him, through the centuries, the praises of enemies and admirers. Yet the relationship between Maistre's thought and writing remains ill-known. This collection is the first to examine how Maistre's ideas – including his denunciation of the written word – intersected with his writing practices and personas. The essays disclose an author formed by duty and affectionate relationships, by the conventions of public combat, by an intense sense of history, and by the imperatives of Revolution.Introduction: assessing Maistre's style and rhetoric / Richard A. Lebrun -- Joseph de Maistre as pamphleteer / Richard A. Lebrun -- Joseph de Maistre, letter writer / Pierre Glaudes ; translated by Kevin Michael Erwin and Richard A. Lebrun -- Joseph de Maistre: the paradox of the writer / Benjamin Thurston -- Epilogue: the forced inhabitant of history / Carolina ArmenterosPublisher PD
Letter from Joseph R. Goodman to Agnes Inouye, June 4, 1942
No full textLetter from Joseph R. Goodman to Agnes Inouye, responding to a letter Inouye sent to Lincoln Kanai from Pomona Assembly Center. Goodman responds that he is not certain of Kanai's whereabouts, but "to the best of my knowledge he is heading eastward with a desire to try to help formulate American public opinion."Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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