This longitudinal ERP study investigated changes in children's ability to map novel words to novel objects during the dynamic period of vocabulary growth between 20 and 24 months. During this four-month period the children on average tripled their productive vocabulary, an increase which was coupled with changes in the N400 effect to pseudoword-referent associations. Moreover, productive vocabu...

The study sought to explore approaches for co-creation of conservation agriculture (CA) knowledge amongst farmers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government and specialist researchers. The aim of the study was to explore farmer initiated food security strategies among small holder resource poor farmers, through enhancement of farmers’ own productive capacity. The study was born out of th...

What is soil health? The objective of this presentation is to present information on the types of measurements of soil biological properties that might be useful as bio-indicators of soil health. First, however, it is necessary to discuss what soil health means. Scientists, farmers and land managers have long known that there is more to the productive capacity of soil than what can be predicted...

The production facilities of some factories can be considered as a flowshops. Flowshops are composed of resources arranged serially in r sections or stages where a set of n parts is processed. There are buffers between two consecutive stages. Each part has at most r operations (one per stage) and the flow of the jobs is oneway from stage 1 to stage r. In some companies of this type, the input s...

Copyright © This paper examines the separate productive impacts of direct and indirect exporting to further our understanding of the mechanisms underlying learning-by-exporting effects by utilizing a method that allows us to check the robustness of the results to the selection on unobservables. We found that the productivity effects of exporting are mainly associated with direct exporting, indi...

Economic inequality in South America decreased steadily since 2002. However, as the beginning of 2010s marked end commodities boom region, economic showed constant or even increasing rates some these countries. The decrease has often been related to impact macro changes, like commodity prices and institutional reinforcement, changes labor market. Therefore, proposedhyphotesis is that productive...