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Mitigation of Climate Change to Enhance Food Security: An Analytical Framework
TL;DR: In this article, the potential for carbon trading between Finland and Ethiopia was studied and a hypothetical analytical framework was created based on literature to identify determining factors to enhance food security through mitigation of climate change.
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Functional Responses of Retaliatory Killing versus Recreational Sport Hunting of Leopards in South Africa
TL;DR: The results indicate that retaliatory killing of leopards may have severe demographic consequences for leopard populations, whereas the demographic consequences of recreational sport hunting likely are less dramatic.
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Tumor necrosis factor-inducible gene 6 protein: A novel neuroprotective factor against inflammation-induced developmental brain injury
Frederik Bertling,Ivo Bendix,Karla Drommelschmidt,H.G. Wisniewski,Ursula Felderhoff-Mueser,Matthias Keller,Matthias Keller,Matthias Keller,Sebastian Prager +8 more
TL;DR: Significant down-regulation of cleaved caspase-3 by TSG-6 treatment demonstrates the putative neuroprotective potential of exogenous TSg-6 administration in inflammation-induced developmental brain injury and suggests a role of TSG -6 in neuroinflammation.
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Special Relativity over the Field of Rational Numbers
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that there is a natural axiom system of special relativity which can be modeled even over the field of rational numbers, and that such a system is suitable for special relativity.
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The precarious persistence of the Endangered Sierra Madre yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa in southern California, USA
TL;DR: This article conducted surveys for the Endangered Sierra Madre yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa throughout southern California to evaluate the current distribution and status of the species and found that only 166 adult frogs remained in the wild in 2009.
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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.