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Journal of Rural Cooperation

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 49 agricu...

Journal of Rural Cooperation

The effects of climate change on future water availability and water quality are not well understood, making the development of watershed management plans difficult for decision-makers. Agricultural best management practices (BMPs) are commonly implemented to mitigate non-point source (NPS) pollution, but future effectiveness is unknown due to climate change. To address these problems, the foll...

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Results: Older patient age at the time of transplant was a significant factor favorably affecting patient survival (P .031). Trends toward better survival rates were observed in those transplants performed more recently (P .063), in those patients with greater body weight (P .084), in those not hospitalized at the time of transplant (P .14), and in those without concomitant liver failure (P .12...

British Journal of Surgery

American Journal of Surgery

the case over. However, there are cases met with, such as contracted pelvis, with infected uteri, where it would be impossible to do the classical vaginal Cesarean section of Doderlein, for these he advocates the trans-peritoneal method of Franke, or the extra-peritoneal one of Latzko. The former is difficult, and in the main consists in sewing the peritoneum of the parietes to that of the uter...