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Journal articles on the topic "Mallee Region"
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Lumsden, IF, and AF Bennet. "Bats of a semi-arid environment in south-eastern Australia: biogeography, ecology and conservation." Wildlife Research 22, no. 2 (1995): 217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr9950217.
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A total of 2075 captures of 11 taxa of bats was recorded during an extensive survey of the vertebrate fauna of the semi-arid Mallee region of Victoria. A further two species, Pteropus scapulatus and Saccolaimus flaviventris, are known from previous records, thus bringing the total to 13 taxa known from the region. There was a marked seasonality in activity patterns and in reproduction. Activity, as revealed by trap captures, peaked over the spring to early autumn months when daytime temperatures are high and nights are mild. Births occurred from October to December, lactating females were recorded from November to February, and juveniles were trapped between December and late February, with minor variation in timing between species. Morphometric measurements revealed that females were generally larger and heavier than males. There was a high level of overlap of species between broad vegetation types. Woodland habitats, especially Riverine Woodland, tended to have a higher frequency of capture and a greater species richness of bats per trapping event than did Mallee Shrubland. The assemblage of bats in the Mallee region, Victoria, like those in other semi-arid regions of southern Australia, includes species that are widespread in Australia (e.g. Chalinolobus gouldii and Nyctophilus geoffroyi), together with species that primarily occur in semi-arid and arid environments (e.g. N. timoriensis, Scotorepens balstoni and Vespadelus baverstocki). This region, which includes mesic riverine habitats, also supports a group of species that are characteristic of temperate south-eastern Australia (e.g. C. morio, V. regulus and V. vulturnus). In comparison with assemblages from temperate and tropical environmental regions, those from the semi-arid region tend to have a lower species richness with fewer families represented, a higher level of insectivory, and a smaller modal body size. The conservation status of bats from the Mallee region, Victoria, is believed to be secure, although the status of N. timoriensis warrants further attention.
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Watson, Simon J., Rick S. Taylor, Lisa Spence-Bailey, Dale G. Nimmo, Sally Kenny, Luke T. Kelly, Angie Haslem, et al. "The Mallee fire and biodiversity project." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 124, no. 1 (2012): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs12038.
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Fire is a widespread disturbance and an important ecological process in semi-arid mallee ecosystems of southern Australia. Understanding the effects of fire on plants and animals is a key challenge for the conservation and management of biodiversity in this ecosystem. Commencing in 2006, the Mallee Fire and Biodiversity Project is investigating the effects of fire on a range of taxa (vascular plants, invertebrates, reptiles, birds and mammals), with a focus on the influence of the properties of ‘fire mosaics’ on biota. A ‘whole of landscape’ design was employed, in which the flora and fauna were sampled in 28 study landscapes, each 4 km in diameter (12.5 km2) across a 104, 000 km2 area of the Murray Mallee region of Victoria, SA and NSW. Here, we summarise some key results and outputs from this project to date. These include: detailed maps of fire history and major vegetation types; a method for predicting the age of mallee vegetation; novel information about the distribution of fire age-classes in the region; and changes to vegetation structure and in the occurrence of reptile, bird and mammal species over a century-long post-fire time-frame. We also present an overview of the effects of fire mosaics (extent of particular age classes, diversity of fire age-classes) on the richness of some mallee fauna. A wealth of knowledge has been developed through the Mallee Fire and Biodiversity Project that will assist the management of mallee ecosystems in southern Australia for the future.
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Holmes, Katie. "The 'Mallee-Made Man': Making Masculinity in the Mallee Lands of South Eastern Australia, 1890-1940." Environment and History 27, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 251–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734021x16076828553520.
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The southern Australian Mallee is a broad ecoregion comprising distinct landscapes, and the clearing and farming of these lands have presented specific challenges to generations of white settlers. Cultivation of this region was characterised as 'one of the most strenuous and resolute battles with Nature'. So began the shaping of an enduring mythology around the 'Mallee man'. In the context of the settler state, this mythology was forged through race, place and gender, with devastating environmental consequences. It has been consistently evoked to suggest that the specific environment of the Mallee worked to produce a special type of 'home grown' masculinity. At the same time, the State sought to provide a particular type of man to work the Mallee lands. This article examines the ways ideas about masculinity shaped men's engagement with the environment and the impact of government settlement schemes on both the myth and lives of Mallee men.
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Lauerer, Marianne, Dean Nicolle, Malcolm French, Annett Börner, Gregor Aas, and Ernst-Detlef Schulze. "Marri, Mallee, Mulga: Pflanzenvielfalt Westaustraliens." Der Palmengarten 75, no. 1 (June 30, 2011): 31–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/palmengarten.110.
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Westaustralien ist einer der „Hot Spots“ der Biodiversität der Erde. Es beherbergt über 10 000 Pflanzenarten, darunter viele endemische. Von besonderer Bedeutung für diese Region sind Eukalypten, zu denen neben der bekannten Gattung Eucalyptus auch Corymbia gehört, die erst in jüngerer Zeit als eigene Gattung von Eucalyptus abgetrennt wurde. Dargestellt werden verschiedene von Eukalypten dominierte Vegetationstypen Westaustraliens, ferner die küstennahen Banksia-Heidegebüsche im Südwesten, Acacia-Buschländer und die halbimmergrünen Trockenwälder und Savannen der Kimberleys.
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Andersen, AN, and AY Yen. "Canopy Ant Communities in the Semiarid Mallee Region of North-Western Victoria." Australian Journal of Zoology 40, no. 2 (1992): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo9920205.
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Ants were collected from the canopies of mallee eucalypts at Wyperfeld National Park in north-western Victoria by beating foliage on ten occasions from September 1979 to December 1980. The study was conducted at two adjacent sites: one that had been burnt by a wildfire during early 1977, and the other long unburnt. Both sites contained a mixture of three mallee eucalypt species: Eucalyptus dumosa, E. foecunda and E. incrassata. In contrast to the canopies of other eucalypt formations elsewhere in southern Australia, abundance and diversity of ants were very high. Ants represented 43-69% of all invertebrates, and a total of 44 ant species from 19 genera was collected. Iridomyrmex and Camponotus respectively contributed 10 and 11 species, and the most abundant ants were species of Iridomyrmex, Monomorium and Crematogaster. Ant composition was broadily similar at the two sites, and on different canopy species, although significant differences in abundance were apparent for some individual ant species. Except for tree-nesting Podomyrma adelaidae and Myrmecorhynchus sp. nr emeryi, the fauna was dominated by ground-nesting species, most of which appeared to forage on vegetation opportunistically. The unusually high abundance and diversity of the canopy ant fauna are attributed to the close proximity of the mallee canopy to the ground, coupled with an exceptionally rich ground ant fauna.
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Clarke, Michael F., Sarah C. Avitabile, Lauren Brown, Kate E. Callister, Angie Haslem, Greg J. Holland, Luke T. Kelly, et al. "Ageing mallee eucalypt vegetation after fire: insights for successional trajectories in semi-arid mallee ecosystems." Australian Journal of Botany 58, no. 5 (2010): 363. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bt10051.
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A critical requirement in the ecological management of fire is knowledge of the age-class distribution of the vegetation. Such knowledge is important because it underpins the distribution of ecological features important to plants and animals including retreat sites, food sources and foraging microhabitats. However, in many regions, knowledge of the age-class distribution of vegetation is severely constrained by the limited data available on fire history. Much fire-history mapping is restricted to post-1972 fires, following satellite imagery becoming widely available. To investigate fire history in the semi-arid Murray Mallee region in southern Australia, we developed regression models for six species of mallee eucalypt (Eucalyptus oleosa F.Muell. ex. Miq. subsp. oleosa, E. leptophylla F.Muell. ex. Miq., E. dumosa J. Oxley, E. costata subsp. murrayana L. A. S. Johnson & K. D. Hill, E. gracilis F.Muell. and E. socialis F.Muell. ex. Miq.) to quantify the relationship between mean stem diameter and stem age (indicated by fire-year) at sites of known time since fire. We then used these models to predict mean stem age, and thus infer fire-year, for sites where the time since fire was not known. Validation of the models with independent data revealed a highly significant correlation between the actual and predicted time since fire (r = 0.71, P < 0.001, n = 88), confirming the utility of this method for ageing stands of mallee eucalypt vegetation. Validation data suggest the models provide a conservative estimate of the age of a site (i.e. they may under-estimate the minimum age of sites >35 years since fire). Nevertheless, this approach enables examination of post-fire chronosequences in semi-arid mallee ecosystems to be extended from 35 years post-fire to over 100 years. The predicted ages identified for mallee stands imply a need for redefining what is meant by ‘old-growth’ mallee, and challenges current perceptions of an over-abundance of ‘long-unburnt’ mallee vegetation. Given the strong influence of fire on semi-arid mallee vegetation, this approach offers the potential for a better understanding of long-term successional dynamics and the status of biota in an ecosystem that encompasses more than 250 000 km2 of southern Australia.
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MOEZEL, PAUL G., and DAVID T. BELL. "Plant species richness in the mallee region of Western Australia." Austral Ecology 14, no. 2 (June 1989): 221–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.1989.tb01429.x.
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Prain, Vaughan, and Tony Booth. "Using Interactive Television to Deliver Professional Development Programs in Rural Victoria." Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 3, no. 2 (July 1, 1993): 5–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v3i2.373.
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In 1991 the Regional Telematics Educatiou Consortium (RTEC) was established to promote and co-ordinate the telematic delivery of education and training programs in rural Victoria. 'Telematics' is defined as all electronically-delivered communication, including audio and audiographic conferencing, and one or two-way video transmission. Interactive television programs were first trialled in 1991 in the Loddon Campaspe Mallee Region, and expanded to over twenty programs in 1992. While many of these programs consisted of only one or two sessions, the Promoting Effective Teaching and Learning Program (PETL), a professional development course of six ITV sessions supported by one initial face-to-face session, provided more data on presenter and participant initial perceptions and responses. Eleven presenters delivered PETL to two hundred and forty-one teachers at twenty-three sites in the Loddon Campaspe Mallee Region during 1992.
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Brown, Peter R., Grant R. Singleton, Brian Kearns, and John Griffiths. "Evaluation and Cost-effectiveness of Strychnine for Control of Populations of Wild House Mice (Mus domesticus) in Victoria." Wildlife Research 24, no. 2 (1997): 159. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr96018.
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The efficacy and cost-effectiveness of strychnine baiting was tested at sowing in May–June 1994 in two cereal-grain-growing regions of Victoria, when numbers of house mice (Mus domesticus) were high (up to 1000 mice ha-1 in the Mallee) and moderate (100–250 mice ha-1 in the Wimmera). In each region, there were four replicates of baited and unbaited sites. Strychnine was applied once by ground spreaders to 40% of each stubble paddock and to all fencelines at each treated site. Treatments did not significantly affect the demographics (size cohorts, breeding status or sex ratio) or abundance indices of mouse populations. The most pronounced reduction occurred in stubble paddocks (harvested five months earlier) in the Mallee region, where there was a 57% reduction in mean mouse density two days after baiting. This difference was not significant because of high variation between sites within treatments. Moreover, three weeks later the mean density of mice in treated stubble paddocks was approximately double that in the untreated sites. The Wimmera study indicated that strychnine had a minimal effect on mouse populations when ample other food was available. The application of strychnine was inexpensive: $A0.45 ha-1 in the Wimmera and $A0.61 ha-1 in the Mallee; however, mouse damage to crops after sowing was minor. Unfortunately, we could not accurately assess damage to crops because of compensation at an early stage of growth and problems with assessing damage caused by mice. Overall, our results suggest that although strychnine may be an effective palliative method of control when a mouse plague has occurred, its effectiveness as a strategic rodenticide for preventing plagues is questionable.
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Sudmeyer, R., and F. Flugge. "The economics of managing tree - crop competition in windbreak and alley systems." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 45, no. 11 (2005): 1403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea04155.
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Re-introducing trees and shrubs into agricultural landscapes as agroforestry systems establishes a tension between long-term objectives, such as increasing shelter, water use, nature conservation and harvesting tree products, and the short-term objective of maximising crop and pasture profitability. This paper describes the growth of crops, pastures and trees at the tree–crop interface in agroforestry systems and the economic returns from alley farming and windbreak systems using various tree–crop competition management strategies in the Esperance region of Western Australia. Severing lateral tree roots (root-pruning), harvesting mallees and allowing them to coppice, or thinning trees for sawlog regimes increased the yield of crops and pastures in the competition zone. In some instances, these increases were significant: root-pruning increased the annual return from crops grown in the competition zone of Pinus radiata by up to $548/km of the tree line at 1 site. Conversely, root-pruning reduced tree growth by 14–43% across all sites. Therefore, where trees provide benefits, such as shelter from damaging winds, the benefits of reduced tree–crop competition may not offset the consequent reduction in rate of tree growth. For mallee–crop alley systems on agriculturally productive soils, mallee growth rates must be high enough to compensate for crop losses in the competition zone. On less agriculturally productive soils, block-planting mallees may be more profitable than alley systems or crops without competition (sole-crops). This research has shown that competition management strategies can be used to manipulate the relative productivity of trees, crops and pasture at the tree–agriculture interface. The use of these strategies will depend on the relative economic value of tree and crop products and the value placed on other tree benefits, such as shelter and reduced groundwater recharge.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mallee Region"
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Reed, Brian, and n/a. "A survey of regular teachers' concerns towards the integration of disabled children in state primary schools, Bendigo region, Victoria." University of Canberra. Education, 1990. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061107.100059.
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The integration of disabled children into regular schools is
a current educational and social issue causing widespread
interest, concern and debate throughout Australia. The most
controversial and innovative adoption of integration policy
has occurred in Victoria since the release of the Collins
Report in 1984.
The present study was conducted in 26 State primary schools
in the Bendigo area of the Loddon Campaspe Mallee region of
Victoria where disabled children had been integrated in
regular classrooms with the assistance of a paid teacher
aide during 1988.
The purpose of the study was to survey the concerns of those
teachers into whose classes children with disabilities had
been integrated.
The Stages of Concern (SoC) dimension of the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (C-BAM) was chosen as the research
methodology. C-BAM was developed at the Research and
Development Center for Teacher Education, University of
Texas at Austin, and for the purpose of this study, the
methodology consisted of a questionnaire of 35 standardized
items (the Stages of Concern Questionnaire), and a School
Survey.
The study set out to identify the concerns of teachers
(ii)
toward integration, and to establish reasons why teachers
are at particular stages of concern. Factors included
teachers' age, gender, number of years of teaching
experience, qualifications and in-service training. Other
issues related to the disabled children themselves, the
school, and factors such as availability of resources,
funding levels, and access to support systems.
This study developed from the policy document Integration in
Victorian Education (the Collins Report, 1984). Since then,
the Ministry of Education has published two additional
booklets (in January and February, 1987), which partly
address some of the issues included in this thesis. These
include resourcing, in-servicing and the legal implications
of the innovation.
The analysis of the data points to major shortcomings which
will jeopardize the implementation process and the likely
success of the innovation. A number of recommendations have
been suggested, with particular reference to the pre-service
and in-service training of teachers, and issues relating to
funding and resources.
The findings have implications for all classroom teachers,
as potentially all are required to accept disabled children
into their classes. The results and recommendations also
have relevance for the Ministry of Education, whose
responsibility it is to ensure that the integration of
disabled children into regular classes is fully supported at
a government level, and for training institutions, whose
task it is to provide appropriate pre-service and in-service
programs for present and future classroom teachers.
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Harrington, Rhidian. "The effects of artificial watering points on the distribution and abundance of avifauna in an arid and semi-arid mallee environment." Connect to this title online, 2002. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2874.
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The role of artificial watering points in the avifaunal dynamics of the semi-arid mallee woodlands of southeast Australia was examined. Species richness and abundance were monitored throughout the year at different distances from water to determine how birds were distributed around water points and how this changed in relation to environmental factors such as climate. Vegetation attributes were also measured to determine which factors explained patterns in the avifauna with distance from water, and also to allow a description of the vegetation in relation to the water points. Water points were monitored throughout the year to determine which species were utilising them, under which environmental circumstances and for what purposes. Knowledge of the water utilisation behaviour of individual bird species allowed some explanation of their distribution patterns, as well as an ability to predict the likely effects of water point closure on those bird species. The closure of two water points during the study allowed an assessment of the immediate effects of water point closure on avifauna (For complete abstract open document)
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Feuillet-Liger, Brigitte. "Le lien conjugal du malade mental." Rennes 1, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988REN11008.
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Le respect de la personne humaine doit conduire a admettre le mariage du malade mental. Ce principe s'inscrit dans la politique generale d'insertion des malades mentaux dans notre societe, politique defendue par les psychiatres. Toutes les regles relatives a la formation du mariage, a la vie matrimoniale et a la dissolution du mariage doivent donc s'appliquer meme en cas de deficience mentale de l'un des epoux. Mais l'application pure et simple de ces dispositions ne peut etre envisagee : des regles protectrices de l'aliene mais egalement des textes permettant au conjoint sain d'esprit d'assurer la vie quotidienne du menage doivent etre prevusRespect for the human being must lead to accept the marriage of the insane. This principle follows the general policy mainteined by the psychiatrits to insert the lunatics into our society. Then the juridical rules connected with forming a marriage, matrimony and dissolution of the marriage must be carried out even in the case of mental deficiency of one of the sponce. But the plain application of these arrangements can't be considered : protecting rules for the affected sponse as well as laws allowing the husband or wife of the lunatic to deal with their daily life must be ajusted
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Wildy, Daniel Thomas. "Growing mallee eucalypts as short-rotation tree crops in the semi-arid wheatbelt of Western Australia." University of Western Australia. School of Plant Biology, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2004.0031.
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[Truncated abstract] Insufficient water use by annual crop and pasture species leading to costly rises in saline watertables has prompted research into potentially profitable deep-rooted perennial species in the Western Australian wheatbelt. Native mallee eucalypts are currently being developed as a short-rotation coppice crop for production of leaf oils, activated carbon and bio-electricity for low rainfall areas (300—450 mm) too dry for many of the traditional timber and forage species. The research in this study was aimed at developing a knowledge base necessary to grow and manage coppiced mallee eucalypts for both high productivity and salinity control. This firstly necessitated identification of suitable species, climatic and site requirements favourable to rapid growth, and understanding of factors likely to affect yield of the desirable leaf oil constituent, 1,8-cineole. This was undertaken using nine mallee taxa at twelve sites with two harvest regimes. E. kochii subsp. plenissima emerged as showing promise in the central and northern wheatbelt, particularly at a deep acid sand site (Gn 2.61; Northcote, 1979), so further studies focussed on physiology of its resprouting, water use and water-use efficiency at a similar site near Kalannie. Young E. kochii trees were well equipped with large numbers of meristematic foci and adequate root starch reserves to endure repeated shoot removal. The cutting season and interval between cuts were then demonstrated to have a strong influence on productivity, since first-year coppice growth was slow and root systems appeared to cease in secondary growth during the first 1.5—2.5 years after cutting. After decapitation, trees altered their physiology to promote rapid replacement of shoots. Compared to uncut trees, leaves of coppices were formed with a low carbon content per unit area, and showed high stomatal conductance accompanied by high leaf photosynthetic rates. Whole-plant water use efficiency of coppiced trees was unusually high due to their fast relative growth rates associated with preferential investments of photosynthates into regenerating canopies rather than roots. Despite relatively small leaf areas on coppice shoots over the two years following decapitation, high leaf transpiration rates resulted in coppices using water at rates far in excess of that falling as rain on the tree belt area. Water budgets showed that 20 % of the study paddock would have been needed as 0—2 year coppices in 5 m wide twin-row belts in order to maintain hydrological balance over the study period. Maximum water use occurred where uncut trees were accessing a fresh perched aquifer, but where this was not present water budgets still showed transpiration of uncut trees occurring at rates equivalent to 3—4 times rainfall incident on the tree belt canopy. In this scenario, only 10 % of the paddock surface would have been required under 5 m wide tree belts to restore hydrological balance, but competition losses in adjacent pasture would have been greater
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Casas, Manríquez Paulina Magdalena. "Bases técnicas para la implementación de una red de turismo rural en el complejo Malleco-Tolhuaca, IX Región." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2004. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/105045.
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VACHER, CLAUDE. "Etude des patients du premier secteur psychiatrique de lyon hospitalises sous le regime de la loi du 30 juin 1838 de 1975 a 1988." Lyon 1, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990LYO1M323.
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González, Aguayo Carolina Amanda. "Crecimiento de un monte bravo bajo diferentes coberturas, en unbosque de coihue-raulí, intervenido el año 1976, en la Reserva Nacional Malleco, IX Región." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2005. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/151588.
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Memoria para optar al título Profesional de Ingeniero ForestalEl conocimiento de las variables que influyen en el crecimiento de los árboles, es una ventaja, al momento de manejar sustentablemente el bosque. La cobertura del dosel, representa un factor importante en el desarrollo de la regeneración de Nothofagus. Ésta, es de particular importancia en bosques de Raulí (Nothofagus alpina) y Coihue (Nothofagus dombeyi), donde las especies son de gran importancia económica. El objetivo de este estudio fue, determinar las tasas de crecimiento del monte bravo de un bosque de Raulí - Coihue, bajo diferentes niveles de cobertura del dosel superior. El estudio se realizó en la Reserva Nacional Malleco, Chile. El bosque seleccionado fue un monte bravo, el cual presentaba cobertura abierta y cerrada en el dosel superior. Se determinó la estructura horizontal y vertical en cada situación, a través de un muestreo sistemático. En sub-parcelas de 12,56 m2, fueron determinados el número de árboles y la altura de éstos. En cada sub-parcela se cosechó el árbol dominante, el cual fue cortado cada dos metros, para evaluar el crecimiento en altura y en diámetro.
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Oviedo, Stegmann Juan Pablo, and Lihn María Luisa Gutiérrez. "El problema de la falta de conectividad entre áreas silvestres en Chile : el Caso de la Cuenca del Río Malleco." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2016. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/143225.
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Memoria (licenciado en ciencias jurídicas y sociales)La siguiente Memoria se centra en la protección del bien jurídico biodiversidad como elemento principal del cuidado y puesta en valor de la naturaleza, entendiendo que la conservación es la mejor medida para protegerlo. Se realiza un análisis crítico del sistema de conservación en Chile, el cual se gestiona a través de la constitución de Áreas Protegidas – públicas y privadas -, y además se estudian otros instrumentos de protección de la biodiversidad tales como la Reserva de la Biósfera de Araucarias, el Derecho Real de Conservación y los corredores biológicos. En este contexto se realiza un estudio de los aportes y carencias del Proyecto de Ley que crea el Sistema Nacional de Áreas Protegidas del Estado y el Servicio Nacional de Biodiversidad de Áreas Protegidas, entrevistando académicos e integrantes del gobierno entendidos en el tema. Como caso clínico se eligió la cuenca del Río Malleco en su parte alta, ubicada en parte en la Región del BíoBío y en parte en la Región de la Araucanía, lugar de especial valor ecológico y de alta amenaza por la actividad forestal que se lleva a cabo en el sector. El objetivo de este trabajo para el sector alto de la cuenca del Río Malleco es proponer un modelo de solución al problema de la falta de conectividad entre áreas silvestres de relevancia para la protección del bien jurídico biodiversidad, a través de una combinación de instrumentos de conservación, entendiendo que ninguno de ellos por sí sólo puede solucionar en su totalidad el problema de la falta de conectividad.
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Michael, Pippa J. "Agro-ecology of Malva parviflora (small-flowered mallow) in the Mediterranean-climatic agricultural region of Western Australia." University of Western Australia. Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2006.0076.
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[Truncated abstract] Malva parviflora L. (small-flowered mallow) (Malvaceae) is a common weed of pastures and wastelands and its distribution has increased rapidly throughout Australia during the last decade. Control of M. parviflora with herbicides, such as glyphosate, is often unsatisfactory and changing farming practices, such as minimum tillage, have facilitated its spread. Yet there has been little research on M. parviflora in the past and many aspects of its biology and ecology are unknown. Hence, there exists a need to examine these aspects in order to investigate and develop suitable integrated weed management strategies. Weed identification is the first and probably the most important step in the management of weeds. Here it is shown that the weedy Malva species in Western Australian farming systems is M. parviflora, and not a morphologically similar Malva species or hybrid of two species. A common garden study of 24 populations collected across the agricultural region of south-west Western Australia revealed that since its introduction over 140 years ago M. parviflora has successfully adapted to a wide range of distinct environments. The species is able to thrive in areas that vary in annual rainfall from 315 to 496 mm, maximum average temperatures from 21.9 to 26.8oC and minimum average temperatures from 9 to 13.6oC. However, there was limited broad scale ecoclinal differentiation and low genetic variation within the common garden study with only length of time between sowing and flowering differing between populations. As the species was shown to possess a predominately inbreeding system, which typically would create ecotypes/ecoclines due to limited gene flow, it was suggested that seed dispersal by sheep is likely to have increased gene flow thus suppressing population differentiation. A considerable proportion of mature hardseeded M. parviflora can survive rumen digestion and mastication by sheep. ... With origins thought to be in the Mediterranean region, it is not surprising that M. parviflora has thrived and prospered in south-west Western Australia. This thesis has determined several aspects that have enabled it to flourish in this Mediterranean-type environment and most of these attributes, including autogamous reproduction, ecoclinal/ecotypic formation, dormancy and asynchronous germination and rapid seed development, are commonly found in successful weeds world-wide.
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Kone, Oumar. "La corruption des agents publics : approche comparée des droits français et malien." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015STRAA016/document.
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La corruption, considérée comme l’utilisation abusive d’un pouvoir reçu par délégation à des fins privées, enrichit immanquablement un petit nombre de personnes. Ainsi, là où elle s’enracine, elle devient un obstacle important au développement en affaiblissant la société et l’Etat. C’est pourquoi, elle sape les fondements même de l’Etat de droit, mine les bases de la démocratie et tire sa source de la mauvaise gouvernance. Par conséquent, elle entraîne non seulement une mauvaise utilisation des deniers publics, mais également, fausse la concurrence en créant des inégalités entre les citoyens. Conscients des effets néfastes de ce phénomène, la France et le Mali prévoient et punis dans leur système juridique la lutte contre corruption. Au titre de la prévention, des organes à caractère administratif sont créés (SCPC en France et BVG au Mali, etc.) ayant pour mission de prévenir la corruption des agents publics. Egalement, sur le plan de la répression, des juridictions spécialisées sont créées dans ces pays pour réprimer toute atteinte à la probité publique. Mais force est de constater que la mise en oeuvre effective de ces mesures rencontre très souvent des difficultés tenant entre autres à la brièveté du délai de la prescription, à la question de l’opportunité des poursuites, au secret-défense, etc. Sur le plan international et régional, autant de conventions ou accords ont été adoptés pour faire de la lutte contre la corruption, un enjeu majeur. D’ailleurs, les Nations Unies ont inscrit la lutte contre la corruption au rang de leurs objectifs, considérant que ce fléau constitue à bien des égards, un obstacle majeur à l’Etat de droit. La France et le Mali ont ratifié et transposé la plupart des conventions internationales et régionales dans leur système juridique afin de se conformer aux contraintes internationales pour lutter contre la corruption, une lutte qui tend à s’internationaliser. Cette étude a pour objectif de faire un état des lieux de la corruption dans les deux pays, d’analyser la réalité et la faiblesse des mesures mises en place pour lutter contre ce fléau tout en faisant des propositions destinées à rendre plus efficace la lutte contre la corruption qui, au demeurant, gangrène tous les secteurs tant public que privéCorruption, considered as an excessive use of a power delegated for private purposes, inevitably enriches a small number of people. Thus, where it is rooted, it becomes a major obstacle to development by weakening the society and the state. Therefore, it undermines the very foundations of the rule of law, undermines the foundations of democracy and derives its source of bad governance. Consequently, it does not only lead to a misuse of public funds, but also distorts competition by creating inequalities among citizens. Aware of the harmful effects of this phenomenon, France and Mali provide and punish in their legal systems the fight against corruption. For prevention purposes, bodies of administrative nature are created (SCPC France and Mali OAG, etc.) whose mission is to prevent the corruption of public officials. Also, as regards to law enforcement, specialized courts are created in these countries to quell any attack on public probity. But there is no choice but to accept that the effective implementation of these measures often encounter difficulties linked inter alia to the brevity of the limitation period, the issue of whether prosecution is advisable, to defense secrecy, etc. Internationally and regionally, as many conventions or agreements have been adopted to make the fight against corruption, a major stake. Besides, the United Nations has listed the fight against corruption among their objectives, considering this plague to be in many ways a major obstacle to the rule of law. France and Mali have ratified and adapted most of the international and regional conventions to their legal system in order to conform to international constraints for the fight against corruption, a struggle which tends to internationalize. This study aims to make an inventory of the corruption in both countries, analyze the reality and the weakness of the measures implemented to fight against this plague while making proposals for a more effective fight against corruption which, notwithstanding blights both public and private sectors
Books on the topic "Mallee Region"
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Helen, Caruana Galizia, ed. The food and cookery of Malta. Totnes: Prospect Books, 1997.
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Klub kholosti︠a︡kov: Roman. Moskva: Ėksmo, 2006.
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Steel, Danielle. Toxic bachelors. New York: Delacorte Press, 2005.
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Danielle, Steel. Myrkylliset poikamiehet. Helsinki: WSOY, 2005.
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Toxic bachelors. New York: Delacorte Press, 2005.
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Danielle, Steel. Éternels célibataires: Roman. Paris: Presses de la Cite, 2008.
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Danielle, Steel. Éternels célibataires. Paris: Éd. France loisirs, 2007.
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Danielle, Steel. Evige ungkarer. Oslo: Schibsted Forlagene, 2006.
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Rosa, Benavides Alonso, ed. Solteros tóxicos. Barcelona: Debolsillo, 2010.
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Céleste, Desoille Martine, ed. Éternels célibataires: Les échos du passé. Paris: Pocket, 2011.
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Colao, Annamaria, Giovanni Vitale, Michele De Rosa, and Gaetano Lombardi. "Male Hypogonadism Resulting From Disorders of the Pituitary and Suprasellar Region." In Male Hypogonadism, 139–58. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-727-7_8.
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Pivonello, Rosario, Ciro Salzano, Mariano Galdiero, and Annamaria Colao. "Male Hypogonadism Due to Disorders of the Pituitary and Suprasellar Region." In Male Hypogonadism, 169–86. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53298-1_8.
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Di Silvio, Giampaolo, and Massimo Peviani. "Modelling short- and long-term evolution of mountain rivers: An application to the torrent mallero (Italy)." In Fluvial Hydraulics of Mountain Regions, 293–315. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bfb0011198.
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Hodson de Jaramillo, Elizabeth, Urs Niggli, Kaoru Kitajima, Rattan Lal, and Claudia Sadoff. "Boost Nature-Positive Production." In Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 319–40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_17.
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AbstractThe overall goal of nature-positive production is to reconcile the need for the production system to meet the demands resulting from growing populations and rising prosperity with the necessity of restoring the environment, improving the quality of soil, conserving biodiversity, and sustainably managing land, water and other natural resources. The strategy is to protect, manage and restore ecosystems: to “produce more from less” and set aside some land and water for nature. In this context, action at the landscape scale is key, extending beyond individual production fields to the watershed, the entire river basin, and the coastal area influenced by the change of land use and river discharges (IPCC Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems [PR Shukla, J Skea, E Calvo Buendia, V Masson-Delmotte, H-O Pörtner, DC Roberts, P Zhai, R Slade, S Connors, R van Diemen, M Ferrat, E Haughey, S Luz, S Neogi, M Pathak, J Petzold, J Portugal Pereira, P Vyas, E Huntley, K Kissick, M Belkacemi, J Malley (eds)], 2019). Nature-positive landscape-level interventions include system-based conservation agriculture, agroforestry, river basin management, bio-inputs, integrated soil fertility management, soil and water conservation and nutrient recycling. In particular, maintaining trees in landscapes, avoiding deforestation and promoting landscape restoration are critically important for preventing soil erosion, regulating water resources, and protecting environmental services essential for sustaining production at multiple scales, from the regional to the global. Such nature-positive approaches are best based on bottom-up and territorial processes, strengthened by scientific innovations and enabling policy environments. Translating science into transformative action also requires system-level governance and policy interventions that enable and provide incentives for farmers and land managers to adopt nature-positive practices. Greater public and private sector investment in research and innovation is needed if we are to develop solutions and adequately scale the adoption of nature-positive production systems. Furthermore, a realignment towards nature-positive food systems requires awareness and empowerment on the part of producers and consumers. These concepts must be introduced to farmers through robust extension programs, with special attention paid to woman farmers. They must be taught in schools and broadcast to consumers. Ultimately, the aim should be to foster a five-way dialogue among academic institutions, farmer and citizen groups, industry and policymakers to translate scientific knowledge into viable action.
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Jacobson, Gerry, James Ferguson, and W. Ray Evans. "Groundwater-discharge playas of the Mallee region, Murray Basin, southeast Australia." In Geological Society of America Special Papers, 81–96. Geological Society of America, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/spe289-p81.
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Chalmer, Nicole Y. "Brumbies (Equus ferus caballus) as Colonizers of the Esperance Mallee–Recherche Bioregion in Western Australia." In Environments of Empire, 197–223. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469655932.003.0010.
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Before Australia was taken over by humans more than 55 000 years BP, the landscapes were shaped through animal agency. Extinct prehistoric fauna and megafauna had social ecological systems and actively organized ecosystems and landscapes that reflected patterns of herbivory, soil foraging, nutrient cycling and predation. Surviving species continued as agents in the ecosystem functions of the EM-R region until the beginning of European colonization in the 1860’s. The settlers used the inherent biological traits of their domesticated animals, including horses, as an agency of colonization. Horses (Equus ferus caballus) who escaped to become wild are known as Brumbies in the Australian vernacular. They adapted to the local environments and prospered. This chapter analyzes the ways Brumbies have adapted to and made the land their own. It shows how they became intimately engaged with landscape details and resources which are reflected through their creation of cultural horsetrails as they moved purposefully throughout their homelands.
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Stiros, Stathis. "Earthquakes." In The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199268030.003.0030.
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Earthquakes have played a major role in the evolution of the Mediterranean landscape. They are the most important geohazard in the region and huge sums are invested annually in seismic monitoring, hazard zoning, and earthquake prediction, and in the design of earthquake-resistant buildings and infrastructure. Large earthquakes of magnitude >7.0 have been recorded across the region and the archaeological record shows that earthquakes have posed a major hazard to human settlements for thousands of years (Ambraseys 1971; Shaw et al. 2008; Bottari et al. 2009; Figure 16.1 and Table 16.1). The study of Mediterranean seismicity started about 2,400 years ago when the first earthquake catalogue was compiled in ancient Greece (Papazachos and Papazachou 1997; Guidoboni et al. 1994). This key development predated, by several centuries, the construction of the first seismograph in China (Bullen and Bolt 1985). Since these early developments a great deal of research has been carried out to improve our understanding of earthquakes and associated hazards in the Mediterranean region and to provide protection from them. Earthquake resistant buildings—such as houses with timber bracing—were introduced in Asia Minor in the seventeenth century (Kirikov 1992; Simopoulos 1984; Stiros 1995) and the first strict anti-seismic construction regulations were implemented on the island of Levkas, Greece, in the nineteenth century under British Rule (Stiros 1995). The first ‘modern’, regional-scale earthquake maps and catalogues were compiled as early as the middle of the nineteenth century (Mallet 1858). Despite this progress, the death toll from Mediterranean earthquakes is still high and earthquakes in the region continue to surprise geoscientists. For example, the diffuse pattern of seismicity that is especially characteristic characteristic of the eastern Mediterranean (Figure 16.2) is not easily reconciled with existing plate tectonic models, and many faults that are believed to demarcate plate boundaries (such as the Jordan Rift) are currently quiescent (Figure 16.3). Similarly, the 1995 Grevena-Kozani earthquake was a surprise for scientists, for it hit the heart of what was believed to be an aseismic region in northern Greece (Stiros 1998a). Furthermore, key aspects of the geodynamic background of the Mediterranean region remain a matter of debate.
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Joia, Luiz Antonio. "Intelligent Metabusiness." In Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, First Edition, 1591–97. IGI Global, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-553-5.ch280.
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In 1994, the Sloan School of Management at MIT inaugurated a multi-year research and education initiative called “Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century”, headed by Thomas Malone, Director, Center for Coordination Science. One of the key activities of this initiative has been developing a series of coherent scenarios of possible future organizations. The Scenario Working Group considered a wide variety of possible driving forces, major uncertainties, and logics that might shape 21st century organizations. Two scenarios were then created addressing the size and the modus-operandi of the future organizations: “Small Companies, Large Networks”, as the one found in Northern Italy (Textile Production in the Prato region of Italy), and “Virtual Countries”, as more mergers and acquisitions are turning up worldwide (e.g., Exxon and Mobil) (Laubacher & Malone, 1997).
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Merkel, Stephen. "Provenancing Viking Age Silver." In Silver, Butter, Cloth, 206–26. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827986.003.0012.
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This chapter investigates the changing sources of silver during the tenth century at Hedeby, an important Viking Age trading centre and mint situated between the economies of the Baltic and North Seas. It first characterizes regional and chronological differences in Viking Age silver, in terms of both elemental composition and lead isotopes. A dual archaeometric approach to the analyses of silver items is then advanced. Observed differences in the trace elements and lead isotope ratios of Anglo-Saxon, Carolingian, and Islamic coin are exploited to determine the likely origin of silver bullion and coin circulating at Hedeby. The so-called Malmer KG7 coinage, together with a significant hack-silver assemblage, appears to be related to silver of eastern origin, which reached southern Scandinavia and the Baltic region prior to the large-scale influx of Samanid silver in the early-to-mid tenth century. Such results provide new insight into the chronology and movement of silver in the Viking Age.
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Greer, Kirsten A. "Introduction." In Red Coats and Wild Birds, 1–9. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649832.003.0001.
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The introduction situates the importance of the book within current politics of nature in the Mediterranean. For the few last decades, there has been talk of a “war” on European migrant birds in the southernmost point of the European Union (EU) and former British colony—Malta. Located in the Mediterranean Sea, Malta has long been viewed as a bridge between Europe and North Africa, with its proximity to Tunisia and Libya in the south and Sicily to the north. Each spring and autumn, thousands of European migrating birds use the Maltese Islands as a resting place for their long journeys to and from their wintering grounds in Africa. While some people have claimed that the EU is another form of imperialism now imposed on the Maltese, what is missing from this understanding are the ways in which bird protection in Malta, the production of the Maltese “pothunter,” and environmental ideas of British migrant birds and semitropicality are rooted in part in Britain’s imperial past in the Mediterranean region. Moreover, Malta’s so-called unnatural relationship with birds has been put into sharp relief in comparison to Britain’s other previous Mediterranean colony—Gibraltar. Once a monument to empire, the British overseas territory is now promoted as a model of nature conservation and ornithological study in the Mediterranean.
Conference papers on the topic "Mallee Region"
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Bernich, Natali Rocha, René Ochagavia Chagas de Oliveira, Isabella Montemaggiore Busin, Vanessa Saling Guglielmi, Lucas Henrique Skalei Redmann, Bianca Brinques da Silva, Julia Estrazulas Falcetta, et al. "Analysis of the admissions and deaths in the Brazilians Regions by Viral Meningitis in the last decade." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.377.
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Background: Viral meningitis is a neuroinfection that presents neurological alterations that usually evolve benignly. In Brazil, during the last decade, the disease caused 30,731 admissions and 1,048 deaths. Objectives: Analyze the number of hospital admissions for Viral Meningitis, between from 2011 to 2021 in all the regions of Brazil. Design and setting: Study realized using data from the Department of Information of the Brazilian Health System (DATASUS). The variables researched were hospitalizations, deaths, age, gender, race e Brazilian regions. Results: The regions with the highest number of admissions for viral meningitis are the Southeast (42.51%), followed by the Northeast (24.07%) and the South region (22.10%).It was observed that, in all age groups analyzed, males constitute the majority of admissions (58%). In terms of race, 37.51% were white and 28.41% were brown. In the case of deaths (1,048 in total), men were the majority. The mean length of hospital stay was 7.4 days and the average cost was R $1,119.07. Conclusion: Male, white, and aged between 1 and 4 years old are the characteristics that form the profile of the patient frequently hospitalized for Viral Meningitis. The region of Brazil with the highest number of admissions was in the Southeast and the one with the lowest was the North region. Regarding the number of deaths, it is higher in males.
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DREJERSKA, Nina. "http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/archive/conferences/urban_rural/doc/caseconclusions.pdf." In Rural Development 2015. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2015.122.
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Labour market in rural areas is diversified across Poland. Different processes have been influenced it during the last years. The study deals with spatial approach to sectoral structure of employment, including also characteristics for males and females. It was based on the data of the Central Statistical Office of Poland refereeing to the numbers of employees in three sectors: (a) agriculture, forestry and fishing like services; (b) industry and construction; (c) services. A new European Union typology of: predominantly rural, intermediate, and predominantly urban regions, based on a variation of the OECD methodology, was applied. Graphical presentation of the sectoral employment structures across NUTS 3 regions was used. Generally in Poland, very similar proportions of rural inhabitants work in agriculture, forestry and fishing like in the sector of services (third sector). In 2013, in predominantly rural regions, 37 % of inhabitants worked in agriculture, forestry and fishing (respectively 38 % of males, 37 % of females), 25 % of inhabitants worked in industry and construction (respectively 36 % of males, 15 % of females), and 37 % of inhabitants worked in services. Industry and construction is a sector important for employment of male rural inhabitants whereas services were typical for female employment. Agriculture, forestry and fishing is a very important sector of employment in the south-eastern part of Poland whereas the second and third sectors are more popular in the north-western part of Poland. Identification of these spatial patterns contributes to spatial characteristics of rural economies across Poland as well as it proves existence of a functional region, exceeding regional administrative boundaries, of high important of agriculture in the economy.
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Stemper, Brian D., David Barnes, Jamie L. Baisden, Narayan Yoganandan, Frank A. Pintar, Jason Moore, and Dennis J. Maiman. "Lumbar Spinal Mechanics in Pure Bending: Influence of Gender, Spinal Level, and Degeneration Grade." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-206829.
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Gender differences have been identified in normal and traumatic motions of the spine. In the cervical region, spinal motions in females were significantly greater than in males during identical dynamic acceleration pulses [1]. Static cervical range of motion was also shown to be greater in female volunteers [2]. In the thoracic region, gender differences were identified in compressive and tensile elastic moduli [3]. Although male volunteers had slightly greater lumbar spine mobility, the difference was not statistically significant [4]. Another study reported that female lumbar specimens were somewhat more flexible than male specimens [5]. Lumbar spinal motions are clinically important in the diagnosis of abnormalities and instability. Increased motions occur secondary to instability and may indicate a need for spinal stabilization. However, although previous studies have provided baseline data for lumbar motions [6], possible variations in spinal motions between males and females may lead to inaccurate diagnosis. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to define lumbar spinal motions on a level-by-level basis to determine statistically significant differences between males and females and at varying levels of degeneration.
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Borelli, Wyllians, Carolina Formoso, Andrei Bieger, Eduardo Zimmer, Marcia Chaves, and Raphael Castilhos. "DISTINCT PREVALENCE OF SUBJECTIVE COGNITIVE DECLINE AMONG DIFFERENT BRAZILIAN REGIONS, SEX AND GENDER." In XIII Meeting of Researchers on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1980-5764.rpda033.
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Background: Subjective Cognitive Decline may represent the earliest clinical manifestation of the Alzheimer’s continuum. A continental-size country like Brazil demands regionalized strategies to provide adequate public health strategies. Objectives: To analyze the prevalence of SCD in Brazilian regions, sex and genders. Methods: Data was gathered from a complex-sample epidemiological study named ELSI (Estudo Longitudinal da Saúde de Idosos). SCD criteria was applied within the dataset. Weighting for complex-sampling was performed. Data was analyzed according to national region, sex and gender. Results: Overall nationwide prevalence of SCD was 15.48%. Prevalence of SCD was the highest in Midwest (19.9%), followed by Northeast (17%), North (16.9%), South (14.6%) and Southeast (14.2%, p <0.0001). Among adults, males in the North showed the highest prevalence of SCD (27.5%), while the lowest prevalence was in females in the Southeast (14.4%). Among older adults, the highest prevalence was in females in the North (19.2%), while females in the Southeast showed the lowest (11.2%). Prevalence of SCD was statistically similar in females and males (15.6% vs. 16.1%, p=0.6). Conclusions: Brazil exhibits distinct profiles of SCD according to regions, sex and genders that should be analyzed by policymakers in public health. The Midwest presented the highest prevalence of SCD. Individually, male adults and female older adults in the North presented the highest prevalence in Brazil.
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Silva, Bianca Brinques da, Rebeca Delatorre Fonseca, Bernardo Neuhaus Lignati, Lana Caroline Palaver Dall’Ago, Laura Couto Cosner, Stephan Kunz, Liara Eickhoff Coppetti, and Manoel Ernani Garcia Junior. "Epidemiological overview of dementia in Brazil from 2010 to 2020." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.382.
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Background: Brazil is the second country in dementia cases prevalence. The populational aging worsens this situation and overloads the healthcare system. Objectives: To analyze the epidemiological data of dementia in the period from 2010 to 2020 in Brazil. Design and setting: Descriptive cross-sectional epidemiological study with patients with Dementia in Brazil between 2010 and 2019. Methods: Study realized using the SUS Hospital Information Systems (SIH/ SUS), with the information provided by the SUS Informatics Department. Results: From 2010 to 2020, Brazil had 170 million dementia cases notifications and 31 thousand hospitalizations. The southeast region had the highest case prevalence (88%), and the North region the lowest (0.36%). The hospitalized patients number per 100.000 inhabitants was highest in the South region (25.11) and lowest in the North region (4.55). The Center-west region had the highest mortality rate (16.43) and the North the lowest (1). 53% of the reported cases were males, being 51% of the hospitalization rate. The mortality rate was higher in female patients (8.58) and 7.18 for male patients. Patients over 70 years accounted for 75% of the deaths. The patients between 30 and 39 years presented the longest average hospital stay (140,6 days). Southeast and South had the longest (122.2) and shortest (15.1) hospital stay in days, respectively. Conclusion: The data showed the disparity among the regions, from hospitalizations to mortality rates. Hence, politics that can embrace the totality of the territory, improving patient comfort, and disease prognostic are needed.
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Lima, Raissa Barreto, Thaís Machado Belitardo de Carvalho, Matheus Campos Ribeiro de Souza, Lara Teixeira de Oliveira, Ana Carolina Pachêco de Menezes Rios, Rafaela Sandes Fonseca, Louise Seixas Lordêllo, et al. "Sociodemographic Analysis of Neural Tuberculosis in Brazil from 2010 to 2020." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.501.
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Background: Neural tuberculosis is an infection of the central nervous system caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Bearing in mind that neural tuberculosis is the most severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis and results in significant morbidity and mortality rates, it is important to analyze its sociodemographic characteristics in Brazil. Objectives: To describe the sociodemographic characteristics of neural tuberculosis cases in Brazil in the period from 2010 to 2020. Design and Setting: Cross-sectional, retrospective, and descriptive study, carried out using data collected from the Notifiable Diseases Information System (SINAN) and the Hospital Information System (SIH / SUS) of confirmed cases and hospitalizations for neural tuberculosis. Methods: Variables used: region, sex, age group, color/race and year of service. Results: In the period from 2010 to 2020, the number of notified cases of meningoencephalic tuberculosis was 7.451, with mean cases per year of 677.36. The Southeast region was the most affected with 43.8% of the total cases, followed by the South and Northeast regions, with 24.1% and 20.1%, respectively. There was a wide predominance in individuals aged 30-39 years (42.8%) and in the age group 40-59 years (35.9%). The male sex was the most affected with 63.3% of the total. Conclusions: The study shows a predominance of cases in the South and Southeast regions, with a significant prevalence of males and age groups of 20- 59. This could be an alert for new prevention and health promotion strategies for the most affected groups.
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Maia, Maria Eduarda Coelho da. "Death of adults by stroke in Santa Catarina." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.737.
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Background: Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, including 10% of deaths. In addition to death, stroke can cause irreversible paralysis, permanently disabling the patient. Objectives: The present study proposes an analysis of the epidemiological variants that interfere with the number of adult deaths from stroke in the state of Santa Catarina (SC). Design and setting: This is an ecological study, whose area of analysis was the state of Santa Catarina, located in Brazil. The population studied was the group of individuals aged 20 to 59 years old living in the area studied and who died of a stroke (ICD-10 I64) in the period from January 2005 to December 2019. Methods: The data used were obtained from DATASUS. The variables analyzed were: sex, color/race, and region. Results: The present study found a greater predominance of the white race in both sexes in the state of SC with 86% of total deaths. The male gender was higher in all age groups and years analyzed presenting a percentage of 56%, and the female with 44%. The Mountainous and the South regions of Santa Catarina, two less industrialized regions and with the two lowest GDP’s in the state, had the first and third highest prevalence of deaths, respectively 20% and 16%. Conclusions: The state of Santa Catarina showed a higher prevalence of deaths from stroke in the analyzed period in white adults, males, and residents of the Mountainous region and South of the state.
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Neeser, Natália Guerreiro Costa, Caio Lopes Pereira Santos, Gabriela Malta Coutinho, Rebeca Menezes de Oliveira Lima, and Tauá Vieira Bahia. "Epidemiological overview of epilepsy by Brazilian macro-regions." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.251.
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Introdution: Studying the epidemiology of epilepsy is important for the knowledge of this disease in the national territory, and also to improve the Public System. Objectives: Describe the epidemiological profile of epilepsy in Brazilian regions between 2010 and 2019. Methods: Refers to an ecological study with secondary data from the Ministry of Health, through DATASUS. The period investigated was from January 2010 to December 2019, in Brazilian regions. The variables explored were region, sex, number of hospitalizations, average length of stay and mortality rate. Results: 507,443 hospitalizations were identified, with the highest numbers of cases being in the Southeast (44.34%) and the lowest in the North (5.43%). There was a predominance of hospitalizations in males (58%).The mortality rate varied between 2.97 (Northeast) and 1.44 (South). Southeast had the longest stay (6.8 days) and the shortest was in the South (4.4 days). Conclusions: After analyzing this study, males have the highest rate of hospitalization and the Southeast has the highest number of hospitalizations and average length of stay for epilepsy, which may be associated with the fact that this region has the largest absolute population. Although, the Northeast had the highest mortality rate, a situation possibly related to a lower integration of the health system compared to the other regions.
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Basso, Carolina Souza, Julia Bortolini Roehrig, Ana Luiza Savioli, René Ochagavia Chagas de Oliveira, Isabella Montemaggiore Busin, Laura Toffoli, Victória Bento Alves Paglioli, et al. "Analysis of hospitalizations and deaths by epilepsy in the years of 2010 to 2019 in Brazil." In XIII Congresso Paulista de Neurologia. Zeppelini Editorial e Comunicação, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5327/1516-3180.421.
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Backgroud: Epilepsy is a chronic, recurrent disease, characterized by paroxysmal changes in intellectual, sensory, motor, autonomic or affective activity, with limited time. Objectives: To analyze cases of hospitalizations and deaths between 2010 and 2019 in Brazil. Methods: Descriptive epidemiologic study using data from the Department of Information of the Brazilian Health System (DATASUS). The variables researched were: hospital admissions, death, brazilian regions, age group, gender and race. Results: It was accounted 196,351 hospitalizations, 52% in the Southeast, 25% in the South, 14.7% in the Northeast, 5% in the Midwest and 3.1% in the North. In relation to profile, the male gender (59.9%) constituted the majority. In the case of deaths, 12.723 males and 6.557 females were reported, of which 46,4% were white and 41,8% were brown race. Major part of the deaths, 41,9% happened in the Southeast. The most affected age group was between 40 and 49, with 20.5% of cases. Conclusions: Therefore, most hospitalizations and deaths occurred in men, aged between 40 and 59 years, of white race, residents of the Southeast region.
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Dawe, E. G., and E. B. Colbourne. "Distribution and demography of snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) males on the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf." In Crabs in Cold Water Regions: Biology, Management, and Economics. Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4027/ccwrbme.2002.42.
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Hulata, Gideon, Thomas D. Kocher, Micha Ron, and Eyal Seroussi. Molecular Mechanisms of Sex Determination in Cultured Tilapias. United States Department of Agriculture, October 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2010.7697106.bard.
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Tilapias are among the most important aquaculture commodities worldwide. Commercial production of tilapia is based on monosex culture of males. Current methods for producing all-male fingerlings, including hormone treatments and genetic manipulations, are not entirely reliable, in part because of the genetic complexity of sex determination and sexual differentiation in tilapias. The goals of this project are to map QTL and identify genes regulating sex determination in commonly cultured tilapia species, in order to provide a rational basis for designing reliable genetic approaches for producing all-male fingerlings. The original objectives for this research were: 1) to identify the gene underlying the QTL on LG1 through positional cloning and gene expression analysis; 2) to fine map the QTL on LG 3 and 23; and 3) to characterize the patterns of dominance and epistasis among QTL alleles influencing sex determination. The brain aromatase gene Cyp19b, a possible candidate for the genetic or environmental SD, was mapped to LG7 using our F2 mapping population. This region has not been identified before as affecting SD in tilapias. The QTL affecting SD on LG 1 and 23 have been fine-mapped down to 1 and 4 cM, respectively, but the key regulators for SD have not been found yet. Nevertheless, a very strong association with gender was found on LG23 for marker UNH898. Allele 276 was found almost exclusively in males, and we hypothesized that this allele is a male-associated allele (MAA). Mating of males homozygous for MAA with normal females is underway for production of all-male populations. The first progeny reaching size allowing accurate sexing had 43 males and no females. During the course of the project it became apparent that in order to achieve those objectives there is a need to develop genomic infrastructures that were lacking. Efforts have been devoted to the development of genomic resources: a database consisting of nearly 117k ESTs representing 16 tissues from tilapia were obtained; a web tool based on the RepeatMasker software was designed to assist tilapia genomics; collaboration has been established with a sequencing company to sequence the tilapia genome; steps have been taken toward constructing a microarray to enable comparative analysis of the entire transcriptome that is required in order to detect genes that are differentially expressed between genders in early developmental stages. Genomic resources developed will be invaluable for studies of cichlid physiology, evolution and development, and will hopefully lead to identification of the key regulators of SD. Thus, they will have both scientific and agricultural implications in the coming years.
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Lossovskyi, Ihor. ECMI Minorities Blog. How Moscow ‘Eliminates’ Its National Minorities in the War with Ukraine. European Centre for Minority Issues, October 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53779/kgpe6877.
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As Russia is increasingly losing its military personnel in the war with Ukraine, the Kremlin is trying to make up for these losses in every possible way. Following a period of covert partial mobilization, since 21 September 2022 Russia has launched a partial mobilization; both involved disproportionately the male population from remote underdeveloped regions with concentrated populations of national minorities, particularly from the Far East, North Caucasus, Buryatia, Khakassia etc., as well as from the occupied areas of Georgia, Ukrainian Donbas, and Crimea. Conscription is much less common in Russia’s large economically and socially developed cities, where the majority of the population is ethnic Russian. The number of representatives of the poorest national minorities from remote regions of Russia who were injured or killed during the war disproportionately exceeds the respective share of ethnic Russians who have suffered the same fate. Beyond the economic reasons for the increased participation of minorities in the war, this disproportionality raises questions as to the intentions of Putin’s regime in sending these populations - rather than the Russian majority – to the frontlines.
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Taylor, A. E. Modelling the thermal regime of permafrost and gas hydrate deposits to determine the impact of climate warming, Mallik field area. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/210778.
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Hodey, Louis, and Fred Dzanku. Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana - Round 2 Report. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2020.016.
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This study seeks to assess the continuing impact of COVID-19 on food systems and livelihoods in south-western Ghana and provides insights obtained from household-level and key informant data in the second of three surveys conducted during October/November 2020. This second round (R2) survey involved 107 households of oil palm farmers (86 male-headed and 21 female-headed) and 5 key local informants in the Mpohor and Ahanta West Districts of the Western Region.
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Barker, Gary, Jorge Lyra, and Benedito Medrado. The roles, responsibilities, and realities of married adolescent males and adolescent fathers: A brief literature review. Population Council, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/pgy22.1004.
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From the perspective of developing countries, we know relatively little about married adolescent males and adolescent fathers, and much of what we know is inferred from research with young women or comes from a few specific regions in the world. However, there has been a growing interest in the issue on the part of researchers, policy-makers, and program staff. This interest has coincided with increasing attention in general to men, with gender studies, and with sexual and reproductive health initiatives. Early marriage and early childbearing are much more prevalent among young women than young men, and the negative consequences are more significant among young women. Nonetheless, it is the behavior and attitudes of men, within social contexts where gender hierarchies favor men over women, that often create young women’s vulnerability. Much of the research and literature on adolescent fathers comes from Latin America, the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. This paper reviews some of the literature on young married men and young fathers, concluding with suggestions for engaging young men to promote better reproductive and sexual health and more favorable life outcomes for married adolescent women and young men.
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Hodey, Louis, and Fred Dzanku. Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Ghana - Round 1 Report. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2020.003.
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Given the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, this study seeks to estimate its likely impact on food systems and livelihoods in south-western Ghana. Our sample consisted of 110 female and male respondents drawn randomly from an APRA household survey of oil palm producers in the Mpohor and Ahanta West Districts in the Western region, as well as a set of five key informant interviews. Data collection for this study will be carried out over three rounds. This report presents insights obtained from the first round conducted during June/July 2020.
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Mizrach, Amos, Michal Mazor, Amots Hetzroni, Joseph Grinshpun, Richard Mankin, Dennis Shuman, Nancy Epsky, and Robert Heath. Male Song as a Tool for Trapping Female Medflies. United States Department of Agriculture, December 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2002.7586535.bard.
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This interdisciplinaray work combines expertise in engineering and entomology in Israel and the US, to develop an acoustic trap for mate-seeking female medflies. Medflies are among the world's most economically harmful pests, and monitoring and control efforts cost about $800 million each year in Israel and the US. Efficient traps are vitally important tools for medfly quarantine and pest management activities; they are needed for early detection, for predicting dispersal patterns and for estimating medfly abundance within infested regions. Early detection facilitates rapid response to invasions, in order to contain them. Prediction of dispersal patterns facilitates preemptive action, and estimates of the pests' abundance lead to quantification of medfly infestations and control efforts. Although olfactory attractants and traps exist for capturing male and mated female medflies, there are still no satisfactorily efficient means to attract and trap virgin and remating females (a significant and dangerous segment of the population). We proposed to explore the largely ignored mechanism of female attraction to male song that the flies use in courtship. The potential of such an approach is indicated by studies under this project. Our research involved the identification, isolation, and augmentation of the most attractive components of male medfly songs and the use of these components in the design and testing of traps incorporating acoustic lures. The project combined expertise in acoustic engineering and instrumentation, fruit fly behavior, and integrated pest management. The BARD support was provided for 1 year to enable proof-of-concept studies, aimed to determine: 1) whether mate-seeking female medflies are attracted to male songs; and 2) over what distance such attraction works. Male medfly calling song was recorded during courtship. Multiple acoustic components of male song were examined and tested for synergism with substrate vibrations produced by various surfaces, plates and loudspeakers, with natural and artificial sound playbacks. A speaker-funnel system was developed that focused the playback signal to reproduce as closely as possible the near-field spatial characteristics of the sounds produced by individual males. In initial studies, the system was tasted by observing the behavior of females while the speaker system played songs at various intensities. Through morning and early afternoon periods of peak sexual activity, virgin female medflies landed on a sheet of filter paper at the funnel outlet and stayed longer during broadcasting than during the silent part of the cycle. In later studies, females were captured on sticky paper at the funnel outlet. The mean capture rates were 67 and 44%, respectively, during sound emission and silent control periods. The findings confirmed that female trapping was improved if a male calling song was played. The second stage of the research focused on estimating the trapping range. Initial results indicated that the range possibly extended to 70 cm, but additional, verification tests remain to be conducted. Further studies are planned also to consider effects of combining acoustic and pheromonal cues.
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Matita, Mirriam, and Masautso Chimombo. Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi – Round 1 Report. Institute of Development Studies, September 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2020.001.
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Given the ravaging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide, this study seeks to estimate its likely impact on food systems and livelihoods in Malawi. This briefing note is based on our stratified random sample of 114 household heads (32 female and 82 male) drawn from an APRA household survey of groundnut producers in Mchinji and Ntchisi districts, Central Region, as well as seven key informant interviews from those areas. The APRA COVID-19 data collection will be carried out over three rounds. This report presents insights obtained from the first round of research conducted during June/July 2020.
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Assaye, Abebaw, and Dawit Alemu. Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Fogera Plain, Ethiopia - Round 2 Report . Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2020.021.
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This report presents an assessment of the changes in effects of COVID-19 on agricultural commercialisation, food and nutrition security, labour and employment, and poverty and well-being in rural Ethiopia by comparing the results of a baseline household survey (R1) in late June 2020 with a follow-up survey (R2) in late October 2020. Data was collected from a stratified random sample of 106 smallholder rice farmer households (24 female and 82 male-headed) in five kebeles (villages) in the Fogera Plain area of Amhara Region. Data was also collected through 25 key informant interviews conducted in the kebeles.
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Matita, Mirriam, and Masautso Chimombo. Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Malawi – Round 2 Report. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2020.018.
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COVID-19 continues to impact households and economies worldwide. For this reason, in June 2020 APRA started assessing its likely effects on food systems and livelihoods in Malawi. This report presents insights from the second round (R2) of data collection in October 2020. Data was collected from a stratified random sample of 111 households (59 female and 52 male respondents) drawn from an APRA household survey of groundnut producers in Mchinji and Ntchisi districts, Central Region, as well as from eight key informants. One additional round of research is planned for the first half of 2021.