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Pakistan’s water resource management: Ensuring water security for sustainable development

Waseem Ishaque, Mudassir Mukhtar, Rida Tanvir • Frontiers in Environmental Science (2023)

Pakistan is blessed with abundant water resources but facing a critical water shortage due to a lack of storage facilities, poor water governance, and the adverse impacts of climate change. The burgeoning population at present 225 million, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1096747

Assessing Corruption in Agricultural Cooperatives: Differences in the Perceived Level of Corruption Using Microdata

Castro Conceição, Moreira Tiago • Studies in Business and Economics (2022)

The agricultural branch of the Portuguese cooperative sector assumes an important role in rural development and in the inter-cooperation with local, regional, national, and international structures. Given the principles and values that guid...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2478/sbe-2022-0025

Integrated crop-livestock-forest systems: a path to improved agro-economic performance in the Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado

Julio Cesar dos Reis, Mariana Yumi Takahashi Kamoi, Tarik Marques do Prado Tanure, Maisa Isabela Rodrigues et al. • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (2025)

Diversified sustainable agricultural systems, such as integrated crop-livestock-forest systems (ICLFs), offer substantial potential for enhancing food production to meet the increasing global demand for agricultural goods while, simultaneou...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1518747

Covid-19 Measures. Institutional “Errors”, Transaction Costs and Adaptation in the Agriculture

Minko Georgiev, Dafinka Grozdanova • Икономика и управление на селското стопанство (2021)

This article combines law, behavioral and institutional economics in order to explain the existence of an“error” in the way the Covid-19 crisis has been managed. Bulgaria’s agriculture is in focus. The problem is presented as arising from t...

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Estimating the impact of between- and within-subject designs on consumer valuation experiments: the case of positive vs. negative information

Christopher R. Gustafson, Syed Imran Ali Meerza, Khondoker A. Mottaleb • Frontiers in Behavioral Economics (2026)

IntroductionValuation experiments are an important technique for measuring preferences for products, product attributes, and the effect of information on consumer valuation. While these experimental valuation techniques are widely used, the...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/frbhe.2026.1870245

Does Civic Engagement Support Relational and Mental Health of Urban Population?

Michal Hrivnák, Peter Moritz, Katarína Melichová, Soňa Bellérová • Societies (2023)

There is a general assumption that there is a relationship between civic engagement and mental health, but it has still received limited attention in empirical studies. This study provides estimates of the impact of civic engagement (measur...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/soc13020046

The impact of assistance on poverty and food security in a fragile and protracted-crisis context: the case of West Bank and Gaza Strip

Donato Romano, Gianluca Stefani, Benedetto Rocchi, Ciro Fiorillo • Bio-based and Applied Economics (2020)

This paper assesses the impact of assistance on the wellbeing of Palestinian households. The impact evaluation analysis uses a difference-in-difference approach for the treatment of sample selection bias. The paper uses data from the 2013 a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.13128/bae-8145

The Attitudes of Residents towards Agro-tourism Impacts and Its Effects on Participation in Agro-tourism Development: The Case Study of Vietnam.

Nha Thi Huynh Nguyen, Asst. Prof. Dr. Suvit Suwanno, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Weerapon Thongma, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Parichart Visuthismajarn • African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure (2018)

This paper investigates the residents' participation in agro-tourism development by examining their attitudes towards the impacts of agro-tourism on economic, socio-culture, and environment. The data was obtained from a survey of residents ...

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A Focused Review of Smartphone Diet-Tracking Apps: Usability, Functionality, Coherence With Behavior Change Theory, and Comparative Validity of Nutrient Intake and Energy Estimates

Ferrara, Giannina, Kim, Jenna, Lin, Shuhao, Hua, Jenna et al. • JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2019)

BackgroundSmartphone diet-tracking apps may help individuals lose weight, manage chronic conditions, and understand dietary patterns; however, the usabilities and functionalities of these apps have not been well studied. Objecti...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.9232

Upcycling clarified and decolorized red beet waste into a sustainable glucose syrup alternative for ice cream production

Tahra ElObeid, İlyas Atalar, Burcu Tüzün, Ibrahim Palabiyik et al. • Food Chemistry: X (2026)

This study aimed to determine the potential use of the liquid waste (RBLW, ∼12.0°Bx) generated after pigment extraction from industrial red beet (RB) (Beta vulgaris L.) juice concentrate during the production of RB extract powder as an alte...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.fochx.2026.104073

Effects of natural plant growth regulator iron chlorin on photosynthesis, yield, and quality of watermelons grown in greenhouses

Qian Feng, Lu Lu, Qingyun Li, Liu Wang et al. • Horticultural Science (2024)

Iron chlorin is known to affect plant growth, but its potential applications in watermelon production have rarely been explored. To better understand its effects on the growth, photosynthesis, yield, and quality of watermelon in a greenhous...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.17221/132/2023-HORTSCI

Impacts of Sugarcane Vinasses on the Structure and Composition of Bacterial Communities in Brazilian Tropical Oxisols

Paulo Roger Lopes Alves, German Andres Estrada-Bonilla, Antonio Marcos Miranda Silva, Thiago Gumiere et al. • Soil Systems (2025)

This study explored how different sugarcane vinasses influence the structure and composition of soil bacterial communities in two tropical Oxisols with contrasting textures. In a controlled microcosm experiment with sugarcane seedlings, two...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems9030102

Effect of Short-term Treated Wastewater Application on Physiological Traits and Stress-related Genes (CaCAT2, CaDREB32, CaLOX1) in Pepper

Merve Dilek KARATAŞ • ISPEC Journal of Agricultural Sciences (2025)

This study investigated the effects of treated wastewater irrigation on physiological traits and gene expression in pepper (Capsicum annuum) plants during early development. Control (tap water) and treated wastewater treatments were compare...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17879057

Evaluation of the performance of several cultivars of bean (Vicia faba L.) for yield and its components under three different cultivation distances

Mohammed Alatawi, Yousif Abd Alhamed Alhajoj, Raeed Mejbel Abdullah • Tikrit Journal for Agricultural Sciences (2024)

This study was conducted in the center of Kirkuk governorate in the farms of a farmer for the agricultural season 2020/2021. The study included two factors, the first is the distance between the meadows, where the following distances were u...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.25130/tjas.24.3.20

Preliminary screening of biostimulative effects of Göemar BM-86 on eggplant cultivars grown under field conditions in Poland

Alicja Pohl, Aneta Grabowska, Andrzej Kalisz, Agnieszka Sękara • Acta Agrobotanica (2018)

Seaweed extracts are widely used in agriculture as ecological focus substances applied to improve crop growth and quality. One of the primary benefits they bring is increased effectiveness of fruit setting as well as improved stress toleran...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5586/aa.1752

Application of biologically active substances in agriculture preparations

L. Krychkovska, M. Bobro, G. Birta, S. Karpushyna et al. • Рослинництво та ґрунтознавство (2025)

High-quality, naturally protected seeds prior to sowing, along with growth activation of seedlings, represent a promising approach to stabilising crop yield and quality. Enhancing plant resistance to dynamic environmental stresses, includin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.31548/plant1.2025.09

Housekeeping gene expression variability in differentiating and non-differentiating 3T3-L1 cells

Danang Dwi Cahyadi, Tomoko Warita, Nanami Irie, Kana Mizoguchi et al. • Adipocyte (2023)

ABSTRACTNormalization is a crucial step in gene expression analysis to avoid misinterpretation. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction was used to measure the expression of 10 candidate housekeeping genes in non-differ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/21623945.2023.2235081

Seroprevalence and risk factors of porcine cysticercosis in Mpwapwa district, eastern-Central Tanzania

Justine Daudi Maganira, Noel Mark Makwinya, Beda John Mwang'onde • Parasite Epidemiology and Control (2025)

Porcine cysticercosis, caused by the larval stage of Taenia species, poses significant health and economic challenges in low and lower-middle-income regions. This study assessed the seroprevalence and risk factors associated with the transm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.parepi.2025.e00445

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat/Cas12a Mediated Multiplexable and Portable Detection Platform for GII Genotype Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea Virus Rapid Diagnosis

Bingxu Qian, Bingxu Qian, Kai Liao, Dexin Zeng et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2022)

Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDV) is a member of the genus Alphacoronavirus in the family Coronaviridae. It causes acute watery diarrhoea and vomiting in piglets with high a mortality rate. Currently, the GII genotype, PEDV, possesses...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.920801