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In the sixth century BCE, the Achaemenid Persian Empire stretched from the Nile River to the Indus Valley, incorporating the art of conquered civilizations into a collective Persian culture. In twentieth century Iran, the ...
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(ILSSI; Texas &M University. Libraries, [2018?])Irrigated Fodder in Northern Ghana
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(International Livestock Research Institute;International Water Management Institute; Texas &M University. Libraries, [2017?])
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(Feed the Future; ILSSI; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)Evaluating the effect of intensification on water quality: shallow groundwater, streams, lake water bodies & biomass in the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
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(IFPRI; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)Some agricultural practices, such as irrigation, have the potential to buffer seasonal dietary gaps and thus improve diets, particularly for subsistence farmers but also for rural and urban households that purchase irrigated ...
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(IFPRI; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2019)We analyze the linkages between irrigation and nutrition using data from irrigators and non-irrigators in Northern Ghana. The results show that (i) there is a modest difference in the overall household dietary diversity ...
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(1978)This report contains an examination of the Senate document, "The Accounting Establishment", which calls for extensive governmental regulation of the accounting profession. It examines ten major points presented in the ...
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(IFPRI; Texas &M University. Libraries, 2015)Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-05-01)
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-04-01)Wealth inequality has grown significantly over the last three decades and there are growing concerns about the diminishing wealth share of the middle class. Standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-05-01)Rising income inequality in recent years has been linked to a rise in wealth inequality. However, in many studies, anticipated retirement benefits such as Social Security are often not included in wealth calculations. In ...
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(1998)The following paper is an analysis of the ways in which Coventry Patmore's image of female perfection, the Angel in the House, and the ideals which it embodies have affected literary works by nineteenth- and twentieth-century ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-05-09)The power to coin money and regulate the value thereof is constitutionally delegated to Congress, preventing true Federal Reserve independence. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy, by PERC Director Thomas Saving, discusses ...
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(1998)In the past few years the state of Texas, under the direction of Governor George W. Bush, has seriously considered the idea of cutting property taxes. Since schools are financed mainly through property taxes in Texas, ...
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(2015-12-09)Previous research has shown that people have the tendency to view the victim as being partly responsible for a violent assault, as though they themselves did something to deserve the crime. Known as victim-blaming, this ...
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(1978)A mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking 92 percent of its phosphomannose isomerase (E.C.5.3.1.8.) activity was isolated after mutation with E.M.S.. The mutant was found to have the same auxotrophic requirements as the ...
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(2006-07-11)As a defense against viral infection, plants are only very recently thought to use an RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) as part of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway to target and cleave viral RNA. To counteract this, ...
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(2014-09-19)Burkholderia glumae, the primary causal agent of Bacterial Panicle Blight (BPB), results in the abortion of infected rice kernels and grain rot that may result in 75% yield loss. The significance of this disease and finding ...
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(1983)Two sets of deletion mutants of lambda pmet100 were isolated by EDTA/heat shock inactivation. A procedure has been developed to quickly screen large numbers of these mutants. The structures of the resultant mutants were ...
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The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is a globally distributed mosquito and the primary vector of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses. These Aedes-borne diseases impose ...