US domestic sugar prices have been maintained substantially above world prices engendering sugar substitutes (notably high fructose corn syrup, HFCS) to be sold at a discount to sugar Ð a discount of 10 Ð 30% (Greer, 1991; USDA, 1990). Sugar substitutes have been successful in capturing as much as 42% of the US caloric sweetener market by 1984 (Leu, Schmitz and Knutson, 1987). This paper invest...

Using real-time data from the University of Luxembourg’s COME-HERE nationally representative panel survey, covering more than 8,000 individuals across France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Sweden, author investigates how income distributions poverty rates have changed January to September 2020. The finds that increased on average in all countries May partially recovered September. increase is hete...

Smallholder farming households represent one of groups most exposed to the vagaries climate change because their production and livelihood depend on climatic elements. This study assessed effect adaptive capacity smallholder households' food security in Oyo State, Nigeria. Data from 246 were analysed using factor analysis generate Climate Change Adaptive Capacity Index (CCACI), Foster-Greer-Tho...

according to Germaine Greer, an australian academic, journalist and feminist author of ‘The Female eunuch’, legendary for her quotes (see at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Greer,_Germaine) men are pointless when it comes to reproduction. ‘a society can survive with only one man, no society will survive a shortage of women’. Mrs. Greer also has some ideas about spermatogenesis: ‘because you are a ...

In Nigeria, most farming activities rely on family labor. However, rural-urban drift and the movement of young people away from agriculture are making labor increasingly pause. Thus, labor has become a major constraint to expanding the scope of production by small-scale resource poor farmers. This paper provides an empirical relationship between labor and poverty using data from households. Thr...

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INTRODUCTION The once-daily 300 index of reactivity (IR) house dust mite (HDM) tablet (Actair®; Stallergenes Greer, Antony, France/Shionogi & Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan) is the first sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) tablet to be approved for the treatment of HDM-induced allergic rhinitis. Areas covered: This drug profile reviews the current body of evidence on the efficacy, safety and tolerability o...