Academic Articles & Research Papers

Spring weather influences breeding propensity, the most important productivity component for Arctic-nesting lesser snow geese.

Oxidative stress and plasma vitamin E variation and its relationship to sow productivity.

Moisture and material shape microbial communities in the built environment through disturbance-productivity relationships.

Research productivity and impact of rehabilitation science faculty across Canada: An observational study of publicly available and survey data.

Scientific Clinical Trial Publication Productivity in Medical Oncology: A Comparative Analysis and Data Review of Northern and Southern Italy.

Impact of Climate Change on Farm Animals: Physiological Mechanisms, Health and Productivity, and Integrated Adaptation Strategies.

Direct and Trait-Mediated Effects of Climate on Grassland Productivity Across the Alps.

Efficiency and productivity of Mongolian subnational public hospital systems, 2014-2023: annual DEA, global Malmquist and double-bootstrap analysis.

Enriched Soil Organic Carbon Underpins Long-Term Stable Crop Productivity Across China's Croplands.

Nitrogen Reduction Combined with Calcium-Based Amendments Regulates Soil Acidification Buffering and Maize Productivity in Acidified Croplands of Northeast China.

Causal asymmetry suggests productivity underlies scientific collaboration.

Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

This open access book collects the wisdom of the 2017 Dagstuhl seminar on productivity in software engineering. It includes chapters on definitions and core concepts related to guidelines for measuring productivity in specific contexts, bes...

Provenance Variation and Seed Zone Delimitation of Acer velutinum (Boiss.) Seedlings in the Hyrcanian Forest

Persian Maple, Acer velutinum, has a wide distribution in Hyrcanian forests. In this investigation, a provenance test (two years) was conducted with the open-pollinated seeds of seven populations collected from different altitudinal gradien...

The Anthropologies of Illness and Sickness

ion. [In this connection, see analogous arguments by Navarro (126) and Assennato & Navarro (7, pp. 224--30) on the social production of knowledge of occupational medicine, and Latour & Woolgar (102) on the social production of biomedical kn...

Appreciate the Appreciation: Imported Inputs and Concern Over Dutch Disease

If anything is to blame for a higher dollar having negative effects on the Central Canadian manufacturing sector, you are not likely to find it in any “Dutch Disease” supposedly caused by Alberta’s oil sands. Contrary to popular belief, the...

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Our concern in this Essay is to explain the epistemic origins of political conflict. Citizens who agree that the proper object of law is to secure society's material well-being are still likely to disagree-intensely-about what policies will...

The world is coming to an end! COVID-19, depression, and anxiety among adolescents in Malawi

IntroductionThis paper assessed the effects of Covid-19 on adolescent mental health in Malawi. There is minimal research on adolescent mental health in Africa, Malawi in particular. The study shows a link between the pandemic and mental hea...

Equilibrial service composition model in Cloud manufacturing (ESCM) based on non-cooperative and cooperative game theory for healthcare service equipping

Industry 4.0 is the digitalization of the manufacturing systems based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for developing a manufacturing system to gain efficiency and improve productivity. Cloud Manufacturing (CM) is a parad...

Presenting a Productivity Pattern Based on Social Capital Using the Meta-Synthesis Approach

The Asian Productivity Organization (APO) reports a one percent increase in Iran's Total Factor Productivity (TFP) index when compared to the majority of Asian countries and some reference countries in the long-term horizon of 50 years. In ...

Geography and Economic Development

Location and climate have large effects on income levels and income growth through their effects on transport costs, disease burdens, and agricultural productivity, among other channels. Geography also seems to affect economic policy choice...