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Technology diffusion and adoption in cotton cultivation : emerging scenario in Gujarat
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Technology adoption in agriculture depends on the access to information by farmers. This article focuses on the diffusion of seed and pesticide technology among the Bt cotton growers in Gujarat, India.
Politics of biotechnology : ideas, risk, and interest in cases from India
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Much of the literature on agricultural biotechnology is agro-economic. How material facts on the ground relate to a unique set of politics determining deployment of the technology is less discussed. This article begins ...
A.B. Lord fellow, 2016
(2015)
Announcement of the recipient of the A.B. Lord Fellowship in Oral Tradition.
Technological Opportunity, Regulatory Uncertainty, and Bt Cotton in Pakistan
(University of Missouri, 2015)
Genetically modified, insect-resistant Bt cotton has been adopted extensively across Pakistan's cotton-growing regions during the past decade, and prior studies have linked Bt cotton adoption to both reductions in on-farm ...
India's Agri-Biotech Policies, Regulations, and Decision-making
(University of Missouri, 2015)
India is one of the most significant emerging economies in the world. With a population of over 1.2 billion, India's agri-biotech development from cotton and brinjal (eggplant) to other crops as well as relevant trade ...
Eighty years of research on rural economic development, agglomeration, migration, commuting, income, innovation, and entrepreneurship : the Iowa state human capital tradition
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Wallace Huffman continued the tradition of research on Midwest rural labor markets at Iowa State University that was begun in the 1930s by his advisers T.W. Schultz and D. Gale Johnson. We review the lessons learned from ...
Music Therapy and the Treatment of Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased in recent years, calling
for professionals to develop more effective therapies for treatment. Music therapists have
been working with children with autism ...
China's Agri-Biotech Policy, Regulation, and Governance
(University of Missouri, 2015)
China's agri-biotech crop cultivation ranks as 6th in the world after the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, and India. Policy and regulatory issues become most important for agri-biotech crops' development in China ...
Farmer Experience with Weed Resistance to Herbicides in Cotton Production
(University of Missouri, 2015)
A mail survey of 2,500 potential cotton farmers in 13 southern cotton-producing states was conducted in 2012 to assess the temporal and geographic extent of weed resistance to herbicides in cotton production, appraise ...
Biotechnology for a second green revolution in India : socioeconomic, political, and public policy issues
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Long-term stagnation in total factor productivity of major crops in Indian agriculture coupled with a price-incentive-based spurt in recent growth have been responsible for the reversal of secular decline in food prices ...
What is the best beta-blocker for systolic heart failure?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: What is the best beta-blocker for systolic heart failure? Evidence-based answer: Three beta-blockers--carvedilol, metoprolol succinate, and bisoprolol--reduce mortality equally (by about 30% over one year) in patients ...
The loss from underutilizing GM technologies
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
This article introduces a framework based on a real-option approach to assess the economics of delaying the introduction of genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture due to concerns about their unintended effects ...
Evaluation of acute coronary syndrome risk by hospitalists to expedite discharge of low risk patients
(University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2015-01)
Chest pain is a leading cause of Emergency Department (ED) visits. Risk stratification of risk for Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is applied with variability. Revaluation of ACS risk by hospitalists may provide the opportunity ...
Survey evidence on legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants' perceptions of living and working in US agriculture
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
This study presents survey evidence on legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants' perceptions of living and working in the United States. Three key findings emerge that present a negative outlook for the agricultural industry ...
Immigration and farm labor : challenges and opportunities
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Hired workers do most of the work on US farms; three-fourths of these workers were born abroad, and most are unauthorized. This article assesses the current state of the labor market for hired workers in fruit and vegetable ...
Mechanized agriculture : machine adoption, farm size, and labor displacement
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Mechanization in such countries as the United States and Canada has dramatically reshaped the agricultural landscape since the time of early settlement. The introduction of new technologies -- such as the mechanical tomato ...
HACKED! Lessons learned from an URL injection
(Information Today, 2015-06)
The article discusses lessons learned by the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law after experiencing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) injection type of hacking and ways to avoid it. Topics include poisoning ...
Crop circles explained
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Crop circles and their mysterious origins have spawned years of debate and speculation about whether or not they are formed by aliens. Crop circles have been adapted into films and television series, and usually the use ...
Chinese urban households' security market participation : does investment knowledge and having a long-term plan help?
(2015)
Investment in the securities markets is vital to households' wealth accumulation and financial security. Using data from the 2008 Survey of Chinese Consumer Finance and Investor Education, we found that self-assessed ...