This paper offers an exploratory analysis of household income volatility in the 1990s in fourteen EU countries and two future member states, namely Hungary and Poland, using simple summary statistics for average income changes as advocated in Fields and Ok (JET 1996, Economica 1999). The evidence is derived from the newly generated data of the Consortium of Household Panels for European Socio-E...

BACKGROUND Malaria is a serious health concern in Africa. In Cameroon, an endemic country where malaria remains a major public health problem, several control measures have been put in place among which the use of insecticide-treated bednets (LLINs/ITNs) is considered one of the core vector control strategies. However, the greatest challenges include ownership and utilisation by individuals and...

Laying the ground for agricultural sector to derive development is critical and urgent in relieving majority of poor out poverty trap. This turn calls modernization agriculture through technology adoption. The major objective study assess perception determinants adoption North Shoa zone, Amhara regional state, Ethiopia. Data were collected from 796 farming households four districts namely, Ango...

This paper disaggregates total income received by households into a set of components and studies the comparative changes in these components in response to economic growth. The relative responsiveness of wages, hours of work, total labor market income of household heads and wives, and transfer income is assessed across groups designated by income, race, sex, and age. The results provide a pict...

Class V myosin (myosin-V) is a cargo transporter that moves along an actin filament with large (approximately 36-nm) successive steps. It consists of two heads that each includes a motor domain and a long (23 nm) neck domain. One of the more popular models describing these steps, the hand-over-hand model, assumes the two-headed structure is imperative. However, we previously succeeded in observ...

Vulnerability assessment varies widely across households, countries, and regions. Though many previous studies assessed vulnerability to climate change, their unit of analysis was aggregate. Therefore, the objective this study measure smallholder farmers change at household level identify its determinant factors in east Hararghe zone. A multi-stage sampling procedure used select districts, kebe...

A B S T R A C T This study investigates the production of Quechua relative clauses by Peruvian adults and children, aged 2;8–4;7. Quechua relative clauses may be internally-headed, externally-headed or headless. Previous studies (e.g., O'Grady, 2003), suggested two outcomes: children will have less difficulty producing subject-gap relative clauses than other types; and, compared with adults, ch...

The study assessed dynamics of food insecurity among households in rural Nigeria using the Living Standard Measurement Survey-Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMSISA) collected 2010/2011 and 2015/2016. Food status was constructed Household Insecurity Access Scale analysed with descriptive statistics random effect ordered probit model. Overall, 63.10%, 26.24%, 9.53% 1.13% were secure, mildly i...