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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 ...
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 ...
Sterile or non-sterile gloves for minor skin excisions?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Sterile or non-sterile gloves for minor skin excisions? Non-sterile gloves are just as effective as sterile gloves in preventing surgical site infection after minor skin surgeries. PRACTICE CHANGER: Consider using non-sterile ...
This adjunct medication can speed CAP recovery
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
This adjunct medication can speed CAP recovery: Adding prednisone to the antibiotic regimen can help patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia to stabilize more quickly and leave the hospital sooner. PRACTICE ...
Does high dietary soy intake affect a woman's risk of primary or recurrent breast cancer?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q. Does high dietary soy intake affect a woman's risk of primary or recurrent breast cancer? Evidence-based answer: No, it doesn't affect the risk of primary breast cancer, but it does (favorably) affect the risk of cancer ...
King Arthur and his part in the breaking of the Round Table
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
This is an examination of King Arthur's responsibility for the fall of Camelot and the destruction of the Round Table due to his selfish, oblivious nature and his misunderstanding of how to separate his personal and ...
How effective are opioids for chronic low back pain?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: How effective are opioids for chronic low back pain? Evidence-based answer: Short-term (<4 months) treatment with opioids provides modest relief of chronic low back pain, but only minimal improvement in function compared ...
Which interventions can increase breastfeeding duration?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: Which interventions can increase breastfeeding duration? Evidence-based answer: Breastfeeding support, beyond standard care, from lay people or professionals increases both short- and long-term breastfeeding duration ...
Language and living in alien cultures
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2015)
Culture encompasses people's beliefs, traditions, behaviors, values, styles of life and thinking, and the like. People behave culturally through language that passes along from one generation into another. So, it is not ...
The potential economic impacts of herbicide-tolerant maize in developing countries : a case study
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
In this study, we evaluate the potential economic impact of herbicide-tolerant (HT) maize in Kenya. HT maize is essentially a new weed-control approach. The potential agronomic changes from the use of HT maize are ...
The competing policy paradigms of agricultural biotechnology : implications and opportunities for emerging and developing economies
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Agricultural science and technology policies -- including public funding of crop genetics research, intellectual property protections, and biosafety approvals of regulated crops -- can be understood to work together within ...
Empirical analysis on the impact of private-sector R&D on cotton productivity in India
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Private seed firms in India have made significant investments in cotton breeding and biotechnology since the 1980s. These investments have paid off with a series of proprietary hybrids that were developed using the inbred ...
Socio-economic Impacts of Bt Cotton Adoption in India : evidence from panel data
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Several empirical studies have evaluated the farm-level and aggregate impacts of transgenic crops in developed and developing countries, however there is extensive opposition in the wider public. In particular, concerns ...
Labeling GM food in India : anticipating the effects on GM brinjal and rice marketing chains
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2015)
Several genetically modified (GM) food crops have reached an advanced stage in the research and regulatory pipeline in India. The government of India is in the process of introducing a mandatory labeling policy for GM food. ...
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.
Sonny Assu: A Fresh Perspective on the World of Contemporary Art
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
Native American art has previously been out of the traditional scope of the art world; only
recently has it begun to truly make its transition from the world of anthropology museums
into the western contemporary art ...
Education, Learning, and Knowledge: It’s in the Student’s Hands
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
On the inside of a public charter school in the Midwest, the students’ colorful artwork
is proudly displayed throughout the building. The artwork is a visual representation to
show what they learned. You can see drawings ...
Homosexuality in the Heartland: Alternative Print Media from 1970s Kansas City
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
The 1960s and 1970s were full of cultural, political, and social change in the United
States in which activism for civil rights became widespread. These decades are remembered
as a time when ideas about counterculture ...
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 ...
To See the Negro Saved: The Religious Pragmatism of Booker T. Washington
(UMKC Honors Program, 2015)
It might seem strange to group the words of Thomas Jefferson and Booker T. Washington
together in the same context. Nearly a century separated the two men and they came from
vastly different social and racial backgrounds. ...