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Market and Welfare Effects of GMO Introduction in Small Open Economies
(AgBioForum, 2007)
This paper develops a model of heterogeneous producers and consumers to analyze the market and welfare effects of the introduction of GM products in small open developing economies. Analytical results show that while the ...
Patterns of Political Response to Biofortified Varieties of Crops Produced with Different Breeding Techniques and Agronomic Traits
(AgBioForum, 2007)
This article first examines the political response to two crops that were nutritionally enhanced through conventional breeding -- Quality Protein Maize (QPM) and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes. In the next section, the ...
Economic Impacts of Not Extending Biofuel Subsidies
(AgBioForum, 2007)
The exponential growth of the biofuels industry has created significant increases in feed prices to the livestock sector. In February and March of 2007, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the National Pork ...
Current Contribution of Four Biotechnologies to New Zealand's Primary Sector
(AgBioForum, 2007)
This article presents research estimating the economic contribution made by the uptake of biotechnology in the primary sector of New Zealand. It focuses on the impact of four biotechnologies: clonal propagation/cell ...
A Review of International Labeling Policies of Genetically Modified Food to Evaluate India's Proposed Rule
(AgBioForum, 2007)
This paper provides a comprehensive review of existing international labeling policies of genetically modified (GM) food and associated relevant international agreements in order to evaluate India's proposed mandatory ...
The Cost of Product Development of Bt Corn Event MON810 in the Philippines
(AgBioForum, 2007)
The estimated total cost of developing Bt corn MON810 in the Philippines is $2.6 million (128 million Philippine pesos) at 2004 discounted prices. This includes the entire process of product development, from concept ...
Scale and Transaction Costs in the U.S. Biopower Industry
(Berkeley Electronic Press, 2007)
With increasing interest in renewable energy from agriculture, including biopower and cellulose ethanol, there is a need for better understanding of the economic organization of this emerging industry. Study of the ...
Insect Resistance Management Plans : The Farmers' Perspective
(AgBioForum, 2007)
Farmers are required to implement insect resistance management (IRM) plans for all Bt crops in order to reduce the probability that insects susceptible to Bt will develop resistance. These IRM plans require farmers to plant ...
Inequality and GM Crops : A Case-Study of Bt Cotton in India
(AgBioForum, 2007)
Critics of genetically modified (GM) crops often contend that their introduction enhances the gap between rich and poor farmers, as the former group are in the best position to afford the expensive seed as well as provide ...
The Division of Labor Under Homogeneity: A Critique of Mises and Rothbard
(Blackwell, 2007-04)
Even the most passionate defenders of free trade, such as Mises and Rothbard, claim that trade cannot occur under conditions of strict homogeneity of land, labor, and capital. We show that specialization, trade, and the ...
Agent of Change: NSF Sponsored Mathematics Curriculum Development
(NCSM Journal of Mathematics Education Leadership, 2007)
This article identifies factors that make it difficult for publishers of commercial textbooks to make significant changes
consistent with curricular visions put forth by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ...
What's the best treatment for CIN 2 or 3?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Excision or ablation of the transformation zone are equally effective for treating an initial diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) grades 2 or 3 in women with a satisfactory colposcopy and no suggestion ...
What is the best treatment for hypertension in African Americans?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
In African Americans with hypertension, therapy is best initiated with the low-sodium Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet and a thiazide-type diuretic (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on randomized ...
What are the indications for meningococcal vaccination?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Routine vaccination with the meningococcal conjugate vaccine MCV4 (Menactra) is indicated for all US adolescents entering high school and for college freshmen living in dormitories (strength of recommendation [SOR]: B, ...
What hormonal contraception is most effective for obese women?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA; Depo-Provera) and the combination contraceptive vaginal ring (NuvaRing) are most effective for obese women because they don't appear to be affected by body weight (strength of ...
What GI stress ulcer prophylaxis should we provide hospitalized patients?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
Patients in intensive care unit (ICE) settings who are receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation (for >48 hours) or who have a coagulopathy or multiple organ dysfunction (especially renal failure) should receive stress ...
What's the best treatment for gestational diabetes?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2007)
There is no single approach to glycemic control that is better than another for reducing neonatal mortality and morbidity. Glycemic control--regardless of whether it involves diet, glyburide, or insulin--leads to fewer ...
Assessment of the Impact of the Planetary Scale on the Decay of Blocking and the Use of Phase Diagrams and Enstrophy as a Diagnostic
(Pleiades Publishing, 2007-01)
It was shown that abrupt changes in the large-scale structure of atmospheric flows may lead to the rapid decay of blocking. Analysis of phase diagrams made it possible to identify when sharp changes occurred in the dynamics ...
Ubiquity of simplices in subsets of vector spaces over finite fields
(2007)
We prove that a sufficiently large subset of the $d$-dimensional vector space over a finite field with $q$ elements, $ {\Bbb F}_q^d$, contains a copy of every $k$-simplex. Fourier analytic methods, Kloosterman sums, and ...
Sums and products in finite fields: an integral geometric viewpoint
(2007)
We prove that if $A \subset {\Bbb F}_q$ is such that $$|A|>q^{{1/2}+\frac{1}{2d}},$$ then $${\Bbb F}_q^{*} \subset dA^2=A^2+...+A^2 d \text{times},$$ where $$A^2=\{a \cdot a': a,a' \in A\},$$ and where ${\Bbb F}_q^{*}$ ...