A Fuzzy Behavioral Portfolio model (FBPM) is proposed for security investment with insufficient market information and uncertain emotion influence on investment return and risk. Based on the general behavioral portfolio theory, trapezoidal fuzzy number is employed to characterize investment return and risk. Text emotion analysis based on emotional lexicons is introduced to obtain the market inv...

Traditional food security strategies are reviewed and generally found to have a weak impact on lowering child malnutrition. Unless these programs are properly targeted and linked to employment and micro-credit opportunities for women, they are unlikely to be effective or sustainable. The links between food policy and nutrition security require greater attention to dietary quality through agricu...

In this paper we address the question of farm-nonfarm linkages at the household level for a case-study in Senegal. We examine whether increasing off-farm employment opportunities for rural households – resulting from increased horticulture exports and associated agro-industrialization – has benefitted the smallholder farm sector through investment linkages. We use data from a household survey i...

In contrast to large, modern confinement dairy systems, management intensive rotational grazing (MIRG) systems can provide a satisfactory income level on a farm that one family can operate with their own labor and management. This is good news for many farm families. What makes the news even better still for these families is that a traditional, Wisconsin dairy farm with average or better manag...

This paper applies real options analytic framework to firms’ investment activity in information security technology and then a dynamic analysis of information security investment is explored by extending Gordon-Loeb (2002). The current research provides how firms have to respond to immediate or remote threat numerically. It shows that although positive drift of threat causes both larger and lat...

Traditional food security strategies are reviewed and generally found to have a weak impact on lowering child malnutrition. Unless these programs are properly targeted and linked to employment and micro-credit opportunities for women, they are unlikely to be effective or sustainable. The links between food policy and nutrition security require greater attention to dietary quality through agricu...

This report represents an analytical tool developed for the purposes of evaluating the feasibility of a carp seed production farm in Bangladesh. The analyses were based on the assumptions of secondary data, which were collected from both printed and web publications. The financial feasibility of the farm was studied using the Profitability Assessment Model, which utilized some indicators of inv...

We present an empirical analysis of security investment in the healthcare sector to explore the impact of learning effects on breach performance. Employing organizational learning theory, we seek to identify how different types of security investment affect subsequent security failures. Our analysis is based on data from 2,386 healthcare organizations and benefits from data that have been gathe...

the study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in abia state of nigeria. the main objective was to determine the net farm income (nfi) and the benefit cost ratio (bcr) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. a multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...

This study used information about a farm in the Victorian Mallee during the period 1998 – 2005 to analyse the profitability of investing in Precision Agriculture and Site-Specific Crop Management technology and farming systems. Two equipment guidance systems were evaluated. Both guidance systems earned more than 8 percent real return p.a. on the extra capital invested. A Real-Time Kinetic (RTK)...