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Formation of manganese oxides by bacterially generated superoxide
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that bacterially generated superoxide can oxidize manganese ions, generating manganized oxides, which can control numerous environmental processes, including the fate of contaminants.
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Connective Power: Solar Electrification and Social Change in Kenya
TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits of solar electrification are captured primarily by the rural middle class, and solar electricity plays a modest role in supporting economically productive and education-related activities, but "connective" applications such as television, radio, and cellular telephone charging often receive a higher priority.
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Accountability and legitimacy in earth system governance: A research framework
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualize accountability and legitimacy in earth system governance, and place these issues within the larger context of earth system transformation, which, they argue, poses special challenges to the pursuit of accountability.
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Global livestock production systems.
Timothy P. Robinson,Philip K. Thornton,Gianluca Franceschini,Russell L. Kruska,Federica Chiozza,An Maria Omer Notenbaert,Giuliano Cecchi,Mario Herrero,M. Epprecht,Steffen Fritz,You Liang,Giulia Conchedda,Linda See +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a formal reference to Version 5 of the global livestock production systems map, and to revised estimates of the numbers of rural poor livestock keepers, by country and livestock production system.
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Adaptation to climate change in Uganda: Evidence from micro level data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employed data from the 2005/06 Uganda national household survey to identify adaptation strategies and factors governing their choice in Uganda's agricultural production, such as age of the household head, access to credit and extension facilities and security of land tenure.
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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.