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Ziming Zhou, Zhiming Yu and Haitao Wu
Climate change is widespread, rapid, and is intensifying. Using Chinese disaster data and the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) data, this study examines the impact of climate shocks on the vulnerability of farm households to poverty and the mechanism of...
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Cyrus Munyua,Stephen Muchina,Beatrice Ombaka
Pág. 34 - 41
This study aims at determining the influence of county cash management on household effects in Kenya. This is a qualitative research that has utilized both primary and secondary data from county governments and the National Treasury respectively. The sam...
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Kwangyul Choi, Robert Paterson
Pág. 839 - 851
Numerous studies have suggested that land-use policies can reduce vehicle travel through mode shifting and reduced trip lengths and generation of fewer or more efficient trips. The findings from previous studies also suggest that the combined effect of t...
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Yener Coskun, Burak Sencer Atasoy, Giacomo Morri and Esra Alp
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Yener Coskun, Burak Sencer Atasoy, Giacomo Morri and Esra Alp
The study primarily explores the linkage between wealth effects, arising from stock and housing market channels, and household final consumption for 11 advanced countries over the period from 1970 Q1 to 2015 Q4. As a modelling strategy, we employ regress...
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Mahmoud Ali
Pág. 71 - 75
Chlorinated water samples were used to determine the effect of handling modes on disinfection byproducts (DBPs). The DBPs studied were trihalomethanes (THMs), haloacetonitriles (HANs), chloral hydrate (CH), chloropicrin (CP) and 1,1,1-trichloropropanone ...
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Carlos Medina,Lina Cardona
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Daisheng Tang, Xinyuan Wang, Yahong Liu and Tao Bu
Objectives: To explore the impact of informal social support (ISS) on older health. Methods: Multiple regression was used as the baseline regression, grouping regression was used to examine whether there were health effect differences among groups based ...
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Robert Kingwara, Florence Bett, Mary Bosire
Pág. 3153 - 3158
Credit facilities include both secured and unsecured loans. For employees, unsecured personal loans have become more popular due to the relative ease and speed at which they can be obtained. The study focused on three areas namely: evaluate the effects o...
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Kevin Manaugh, Ahmed El-Geneidy
In recent years, land use and transportation planning priorities have shifted from issues of mobility to focus on the capacity of neighbourhoods to provide opportunities to live, work, shop, and socialize at the local scale. This research explores a samp...
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Zhezhe Cui, Dingwen Lin, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Edward A. Graviss, Angkana Chaiprasert, Prasit Palittapongarnpim, Mei Lin, Jing Ou and Jinming Zhao
The aims of the study were: (1) compare sociodemographic characteristics among active tuberculosis (TB) cases and their household contacts in cold and hot spot transmission areas, and (2) quantify the influence of locality, genotype and potential determi...
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Yi Zhang, Wei Wu, Qian He, Chaoyang Li
Public transport brings significant benefits to the aging society by providing essential mobility to the elderly. However, few studies have investigated the factors that impact public transport use among the urban or rural elderly. This study explored th...
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Stefan Hubrich, Rico Wittwer
Pág. 2276 - 2286
As measured by continually worsening response rates, the acceptance of general population surveys has significantly declined in the last decades. This development can be observed in many countries and is likewise applicable for surveys in Germany. ?Mobil...
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oão de Abreu e Silva, Patrícia C. Melo
Pág. 832 - 840
The initial enthusiasm for home-based telework as an attractive travel demand management strategy has been countered by recent research pointing to its inductive effects on travel. This paper develops path analysis models for one- and two-worker househol...
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Jim Wright, Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Nicola A. Wardrop, Richard Johnston, Allan Hill, Genevieve Aryeetey and Richard Adanu
There remain few nationally representative studies of drinking water quality at the point of consumption in developing countries. This study aimed to examine factors associated with E. coli contamination in Ghana. It drew on a nationally representative h...
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Ume Smiles,Francisca U Okoye,Arneh N Johnson,George Okoro
Analysis of moringa oleifera Lam (Moringaceae) product marketing and its? effect on environment in South East, Nigeria was studied. Specifically, the objectives of the study are to describe the socio-economic characteristic of moringa product marke...
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Yu-Jen Chen, Gulsah Akar
Using the 2012 Household Travel Survey data for the Cleveland metropolitan area, this study aims to examine the connections between travel behavior by using trip chaining and joint travel as mediating variables of travel distances and controlling for soc...
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Anne Le Brun,Susan R. Helper,David I. Levine
We use census data to examine the impact of industrialization on children?s education in Mexico. We find no evidence of reverse causality in this case. We find small positive effects of industrialization on primary education, effects which are larg...
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Lina Röschel, Frieder Graef, Ottfried Dietrich, Meike Pendo Schäfer and Dagmar Haase
Climatic and environmental changes are expected to affect in particular those regions where the economy is primarily based on the agricultural sector and where the dependency on water availability is high. This study examines how smallholder farmers in r...
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Jay P. Graham, Verónica Corella-Barud, Raquel Avitia-Diaz and Patrick Gurian
People living in poverty make up nearly half of the global population and a large proportion of these individuals inhabit cities, living in informal settlements. However, only limited research on in-home environmental exposures and the associated health ...
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