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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"long term productivity"”.
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Acquiring Expertise and Societal Productivity in a World of Artificial Intelligence
… in their advanced roles, potentially reducing long-term productivity gains from AI. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset from Brazilian Social Security records (RAIS) spanning 2003-2015, the research focuses on industries with a clear apprentice-master dynamic, such as finance, legal, and …
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Productivity and ecosystem services from purpose-grown energy crops
… (i) assess the impact of Nitrogen (N) on the long-term productivity of purpose-grown energy crops, (ii) evaluate ground-truth and Vegetation Indices (VIs) from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based traits for N management of purpose-grown energy crops at field-scale, (iii) establish an economic …
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Soil Carbon, Nutrients, and Phosphorus Fractions: Responses to Weed Control and Harvest Residual Retention in two 10-Year-Old Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) Stands of the Pacific Northwest
… and nutrient pools, with the exception of P, for long-term productivity. Knowledge of the on-site vegetative communities and their role in nutrient cycling is required to anticipate what effect weed control might have on nutrient pools through ensuing stand development.
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Consequences of Environmental Degradation in Developing Countries
… shoulders of many future generations. In other terms, the environment is deteriorating fast, and not only this is occurring faster in developing countries than in industrialised ones, the former are also less capable to protect against it for institutional, technological, and financial reasons …
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Enhancement of unconventional oil and gas production forecasting using mechanistic-statistical modeling
… of wells offer insight into patterns of productivity but are noisy and incomplete. Fully exploiting this information is only possible by leveraging contextual knowledge to structure observations. This thesis provides a novel framework for combining machine learning and probabilistic …
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Loblolly Pine and Soil-Site Responses to Harvesting Disturbance and Site Preparation at Stand Closure
… trafficking by heavy machinery might diminish long-term soil-site productivity. However, determining the effect of harvesting disturbance and silvicultural treatments on the long-term productivity of pine plantations is difficult because, in addition to harvesting effects, growth distributions …
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The study of molecular variation in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) and brown trout (Salmo trutta L.)
… the structure of two expanding waves of spread along coasts, probably by natural straying of anadromous individuals, to the north and south of the point of human introduction. This study showed a clearer example of the genetic anatomy of an invasion than in previous studies with brown trout, and …
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Organic amendment effects on carbon and nitrogen mineralization in an Appalachian minesoil
… in areas with thin, unrecoverable topsoil. The long-term productivity of topsoil substitutes has often been difficult to maintain under forage and row crops. The objective of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of an unamended topsoil substitute as a tree growth medium compared to …
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A Sustainable livelihood approach in a world heritage area: Ayutthaya, Thailand
… on external support; 3) maintenance of long-term productivity of natural resources; and 4) whether the livelihoods undermine the livelihoods of others. The major findings in this research were that 1) for the Sustainable Livelihood Framework to be used in an area, it should include …
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Hybrid organisations in global value chains: insights from Uganda's coffee sector
… to both product and process upgrading. In terms of social and economic upgrading, hybrids support more stable and inclusive farmer participation in the value chain by extending microloans, offering pre-financing to support farm-level investments, and providing agronomic training that …
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An updated TFP series for South African Agriculture with improvements to official data on land, labour, and machinery measurements
… substantial concerns about food security and productivity. This comprehensive study analyses these trends and their implications to offer insights for policy formulation to address these challenges. The analysis uses historical data from 1947 to 2020 to examine output, inputs, productivity …
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Essays on international economics
… frictions to estimate the effects of new long-term productivity distributions, both over time and across space, on variables of interest. In Chapter 2, we investigate the influence of climate change on patterns of international migration, utilizing census data from Guatemala. We uncover …
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Relazione tra contribuzione pubblica e performance economico-sociali nel settore turistico-ricettivo
… to others, they have a negative impact on long term productivity and growth. Government grants impact have been not extensively investigated in the tourism sector, especially regarding the economic and social performance of the hotels. This study aims to fill this research gap by analyzing …
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Essays on Unemployment
… policymakers is that unemployment may also harm long-term productivity if workers lose skills while unemployed. We provide direct evidence that this does not appear to be the case for a set of general skills using a linked panel of skill elicitations and administrative employment records among …
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Essays on remittances, R&D and macroeconomy
… to developing economies' economic growth, productivity, and the macroeconomy. The first essay revisits the debate on remittance and economic growth by examining whether there is a 'remittance trap' or threshold above which remittance starts to affect growth negatively. The study uses a …
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Essays on remittances, R&D and macroeconomy
… to developing economies' economic growth, productivity, and the macroeconomy. The first essay revisits the debate on remittance and economic growth by examining whether there is a 'remittance trap' or threshold above which remittance starts to affect growth negatively. The study uses a …
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Pore-scale Study of Flow and Transport in Energy Georeservoirs
… rock is critical in achieving sustainable long-term productivity within a reservoir. Specifically, the interactions between the critical dimensionless numbers associated with multiphase flow, including contact angle, viscosity ratio, and capillary number (Ca), were investigated using X-ray …
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Sustainable management of semi-arid African savannas under environmental and political change
… will potentially have severe consequences for productivity and ecosystem dynamics. Hence, global efforts have to be made to understand the particular causes and consequences of dryland degradation and to promote sustainable management options for semi-arid and arid ecosystems in a changing …
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Fetal programming in cattle: the effects of varying maternal protein intake in adolescent beef heifers on fetal and postnatal growth and development of the calf
… This suggests sex- specific catch-up growth to term dependent upon early gestational dietary treatment. We propose that placental adaptations and an accelerated growth response in the restricted female fetus reduced the observed differences in fetal weight apparent at 98 days post-conception …
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Trace mineral supplementation in cattle: Implications in heifer development, reproductive performance, and fetal programming
… reproductive success, fetal growth, and long term productivity of beef cattle. Recently data have suggested that organic or chelated trace minerals may improve growth, reproduction, and health traits in ruminants. To evaluate the effect of supplementing two different chelated trace …