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Smallholder Participation in the Commercialisation of Vegetables: Evidence from Kenyan Panel Data
Muriithi, Beatrice W.; Matz, Julia Anna (2014-02)This paper describes the participation of smallholders in commercial horticultural farming in Kenya and identifies constraints and critical factors that influence their decision to participate in this industry by selling ... -
SMNrp und TUBA: Isolierung und Charakterisierung zweier neuer Gene mit Homologie zu SMN, dem Krankheitsgen der spinalen Muskelatrophie
Plöttner, Oliver (2002)Spinale Muskelatrophie, die zweithäufigste autosomal rezessive Erbkrankheit mit Todesfolge beim Menschen, wird durch Mutationen im <em>SMN1</em>-Gen verursacht, die zu einem Mangel an funktionellem SMN-Protein in den Zellen ... -
Smooth 4-Manifolds and Surface Diagrams
Behrens, Stefan (2014-06-18)Surface diagrams are a diagrammatic representation of smooth, 4-dimensional manifolds. In fact, a surface diagram encodes a 4-manifold together with a map onto the 2-sphere. After giving a detailed proof of this correspondence, ... -
Smoothed Analysis of Selected Optimization Problems and Algorithms
Brunsch, Tobias (2014-03-20)Optimization problems arise in almost every field of economics, engineering, and science. Many of these problems are well-understood in theory and sophisticated algorithms exist to solve them efficiently in practice. ... -
Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2020-12)Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and ... -
Social interactions and aspirations formation in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew (2016-12)The recent literature postulates that aspirations are one of the key determinants of economic decision making, and that aspirations are formed socially through observations and by learning from ‘relevant others’ (or the ... -
Social interactions, aspirations, and agricultural innovations: Linkages with income and food security in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew (2016-11-09)The persistence of poverty in some parts of the society across the globe inspired recent studies in development economics to embrace the use of multidisciplinary tools and concepts to better understand the situation of the ... -
The Social Interface of Smart City Development: An empirical study in Magelang City, Indonesia
Pratama, Arif Budy (2023-08-31)What happens when a local government at the city level adopts the smart city concept as its urban development strategy? In this study, I pose an inquiry into how smart city policy is made and implemented in everyday urban ... -
Social Media as a Tool for Transparency and Good Governance in the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Hussain, Yasir (2014-10)This article focuses on a social media initiative of the Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) using the popular social network platform Facebook as a tool to enhance E-Government services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), a ... -
Social Preferences and Incentives in the Workplace
Altmann, Steffen (2009-08-12)Most economic exchanges are not based on fully contingent, explicit contracts, but rather rely on informal agreements that specify the contracting parties' obligations only imprecisely. In the labor market, contractual ... -
Social-aware Robot Navigation based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
Zhou, Yanying (2024-04-24)With the increase of applications involving autonomous mobile robots, there is a growing need for them to navigate safely and effectively in environments shared with humans. In recent years, social-aware robot navigation ... -
Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter (2014-05)We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are ... -
Socio-Cultural Implications of the Community-Based Water Management: A Case Study of Gujarat, India
Naz, Farhat (2011-08-04)Failure of the state-led development projects and the growing concerns for participation, in the 1980s and 1990s gave rise to community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). This in turn led to a paradigm shift in ... -
Socio-environmental impacts of settlement growth under conditions of fostered infill development: A methodological framework for a multicriteria assessment
Schetke, Sophie (2013)The major objective of this study is to analyze socio-environmental conditions under which a sustainable and resource-preserving settlement development can be promoted and to assess respective impacts of greenfield and ... -
Socio-environmental impacts of settlement growth under conditions of fostered infill development: a methodological framework for a multicriteria assessment
Schetke, Sophie (2010-09-07)The major objective of this study is to analyze socio-environmental conditions under which a sustainable and resource-preserving settlement development can be promoted and to assess respective impacts of greenfield and ... -
The Socio-Political and Cultural Determinants of Diarrheal Disease in the Mekong Delta: From Discourse to Incidence
Kotsila, Panagiota (2014-05-27)The annual diarrhoea deaths of children under 5 years old in the world are at the striking level of 1 - 3 million. Together with pneumonia, diarrhoea is one of the primary killers of children and especially the poor, with ... -
Soft tissue preservation in amber: a comparative study on the taphonomy and limits of fossilisation of resin embedded arthropods
Barthel, Hans Jonas (2022-11-02)This doctoral thesis deals with the limits of morphological and biomolecular preservation of fossils in amber and provides new information on their taphonomy. A particular focus lies on arthropod inclusions from Cambay and ... -
Software Security Metrics for Malware Resilience
Langweg, Hanno (2008)We examine the level of resistance offered by a software product against malicious software (malware) attacks. Analysis is performed on the software architecture. This is available as a result of the software design process ... -
Software Supply Chain Angriffe: Analyse und Erkennung
Ohm, Marc-Philipp (2021-09-29)Moderne Softwareentwicklung profitiert in vielen Hinsichten von der ausgiebigen Wiederverwendung externer Softwaremodule. Die Abhängigkeit von externen und somit schwer zu kontrollierenden Softwaremodulen – welche in ihrer ... -
Soil and water conservation technologies in the West African Sudan Savanna: Cropping system options to address variability of crop yield and impacts of climate change
Danso, Isaac (2015-12-03)In the Sudan Savanna region of West Africa, smallholder agricultural production is almost entirely rain-fed. Some of the major constraints to crop production are low soil fertility and high intra- and inter-annual rainfall ...