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A Study Exploring Learners' Informal Learning Space Behaviors, Attitudes, and Preferences
Deborah Harrop,Beatrice Turpin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore learners' behaviors, attitudes, and preferences toward informal learning spaces in higher education, within and outside of the context of the academic library and produce a typology of nine learning space preference attributes which address aspects of learning theory, placemaking, and architecture.
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Astronomical calibration of the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)
Dorothée Husson,Bruno Galbrun,Jacques Laskar,Linda A. Hinnov,Nicolas Thibault,Silvia Gardin,Robert E. Locklair +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed cyclostratigraphic frame covering nearly 8 million years from the upper Campanian to the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary is presented.
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Applied Environmental Economics: A GIS Approach to Cost-Benefit Analysis
TL;DR: Pearce et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed a method for modelling and valuing carbon sequestration in trees, timber products and forest soils using GIS, and compared the results with a cost benefit analysis.
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Climate hazards in drylands: A review
Nick Middleton,Troy Sternberg +1 more
TL;DR: This article presented a review of climate hazards research with a specifically drylands focus, distinguishing between hazards that are a direct manifestation of atmospheric processes and those that are indirectly driven by atmospheric conditions.
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MODIStsp: An R package for automatic preprocessing of MODIS Land Products time series
Lorenzo Busetto,Luigi Ranghetti +1 more
TL;DR: The proposed software constitutes a very useful tool for the Remote Sensing community, since it allows performing all the main preprocessing steps required for the creation of time series of MODIS data within a common framework, and without requiring any particular programming skills by its users.
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Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social
John A. Maluccio,Rafael Flores +1 more
TL;DR: The impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program was performed by the Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) as discussed by the authors, which evaluated the effectiveness of the program.
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The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research
TL;DR: The advantages and disadvantages of experiments in comparison with other research techniques are examined and the circumstances where randomized trials should be preferred over other methods are described.
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An evaluation of the impact of progresa on pre-school child height
Jere R. Behrman,John Hoddinott +1 more
TL;DR: One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed toward improving the nutritional status of small children in poor rural communities in Mexico as mentioned in this paper, which has been shown to have a substantial effect on lifetime productivities and earnings of currently small children.
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Progressing through progresa: an impact assessment of a school subsidy experiment
TL;DR: The authors used a Markov schooling transition model applied to the experimental data to assess the impact of the educational subsidy program along several dimensions, including effects on initial ages of school entry, dropout rates, grade repetition rates, and school reentry rates.
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A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
TL;DR: Conditional cash transfer as discussed by the authors is a departure from more traditional approaches to social assistance, that represents an innovative, and increasingly popular channel for the delivery of social services that represents a demand-side complement to the supply of health, and education services.