Monthly Archives: March 2024

Research staff reviewed the 24-hr sampling record with the parents to ensure accuracy and completeness. Urine samples were stored in the sample refrigerator until daily collection by research staff. Trained, bilingual study staff administered daily questionnaires that assessed the child’s exposure to pesticides, including questions regarding dietary intake of fruits, vegetables, and juices; time spent …

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This is truer than ever now, with pressing fiscal issues preventing the expansion of most federal programs. How, then, can we influence the dietary quality of food stamp recipients, especially given the fact that increased benefits are unlikely to cause recipients to purchase healthier foods? I argue that the answer lies in creating marketplace incentives targeted …

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Specifically, the effect of flood water application frequency on mineralization of organic N to inorganic forms should be investigated to assess the full N loading amount to groundwater under AgMAR. Although our study was exclusively focused on the impact of AgMAR on groundwater nitrate quality, we believe these findings to be applicable to other similar settings, …

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Some gene families associated with plant detoxifcation and insecticide resistance have rapidly expanded , whereas others have contracted . Finally, gene families associated with immune defense exhibit expansions that may be linked to defense against pathogens and parasitoids that commonly attack exposed herbivores. A substantial proportion of the rapidly evolving gene families include proteins with transposable …

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This addendum called for the establishment of an Urban Agriculture Program to coordinate public efforts to encourage and develop urban gardens . The legislation also updated city goals for urban agriculture to facilitate incentive programs and resource distribution to urban gardens . In April 2013, the City Administrator’s Office initiated a task force to gather …

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While squatting and the politicized aims of land reclamation remain in common, gardens have become an important part of oppositional spatial politics of radical urban movements not necessarily interested in long-term gardening. Today organized garden projects engaged in occupations may have momentary, short-term, or long-term aspirations of access to garden space. Guerilla gardening continues to …

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While other scholars have traced these tendencies, like that of localism, to libertarian and neoliberal ideologies, this chapter emphasizes the autonomous Marxist and social anarchists framings of strategies towards justice, many originating out of broader global social movements. Alternative economic analyses are complicated and thickened with the increase in the importance of cultural and racial …

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Harvey claimed, “if the seeds of revolutionary transformation must be found in the present and if no society can launch upon a task of radical reorganization for which it is not at least partially prepared, then those internal contradictions provide raw material for growing an alternative” . To construct a utopian dialectics that engages concerns …

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Our estimation strategy follows Angrist and Pischke , who advocate the use of two alternative approaches for dealing with omitted variable bias in panel data. The first employs a lagged dependent variable to account for the possibility that the subsidy was targeted based on pre-treatment trends in party support. The second uses a difference-in-difference model that …

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Wages fall by only 0.5% in El Salvador but nearly 3% in Guatemala, 8.5% in Nicaragua and 26% in Honduras. Because of these wage decreases and an imperfect transmission of output price changes across households, subsistence grain production increases by 1.8% and 2.1% in Guatemala and Nicaragua, respectively, while remaining almost unchanged in El Salvador …

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