[PDF] Top 20 Vol 2 No 4 (2012): Open Call Papers

... Recommendation 4 (and 6 to some degree), to target the most poor through the dissemination of proven techniques, was not realized. There appears to have been a deep reluctance to engage with landless people and ... See full document

... our call for manuscripts on food system planning that we decided to squeeze a group of excellent additional papers on the topic into this winter ...exceptional open-call ...remain open ... See full document

... In recent years, U.S. government agencies and non- profit assistance organizations have responded to the profoundly negative ecological, sociocultural, and economic consequences associated with the dominant food system ... See full document

... (Calancie et al., 2017). The assessment tool was adapted from a study of intimate partner violence prevention councils (Allen, Javdani, Lehrner, & Walden, 2012). The Institutional Review Board at the ... See full document

... Transnational Corporations and the Food System The theoretical perspective we chose for this project analysis is the “treadmill of production” (Schnaiberg, 1980). This view, common in environmental sociology, sees ... See full document

... Recommendations and Conclusions Whatever a municipality’s motivation for or approach to managing this growing practice, policy-makers would do well to consider thought- fully how they will address the issue of slaughter ... See full document

... gendered division of knowledge in these communi- ties. Women keep home gardens — small, multi- purpose gardens adjacent to a dwelling — with crops for household consumption, a common piece of the agricultural system in ... See full document

... and Kouba (2006) used the circular buffer method around independent grocery stores in comparing two neighborhoods in Austin, Texas. They exam- ined concentric buffers of ¼ (.4 km), ½ (.8 km), ¾ (1.2 km), and 1 ... See full document

... is not unique to Wisconsin. Farmers markets across the U.S. are designing their own programs to maximize the SNAP funds redeemed. In Arizona, simply providing EBT machines to farmers mar- kets resulted in an increase in ... See full document

... Diversity is extolled by nearly all resilience frameworks. Some frameworks—e.g., Carpenter et al. (2012), Stockholm Resilience Center (2015), and Frankenberger et al. (2013) —do not address the need for diversity ... See full document

... The comprehension problems of Iranian medical students can perhaps be attributed to a variety of factors including ineffective use of reading strategies, not well developed teaching methodologies, students’ lack of ... See full document

... The U.S. food system today is characterized by a highly energy-intensive production and distribution system, where most food travels an average of 1,500 miles (2,414 km) before reaching its destina- tion (Halweil, 2002; ... See full document

... America shows that expectations of organic price premiums benefiting farmers may be problematic, as price premiums from organic and fair trade certification are small, and migration remittances and yield increases (for ... See full document

... Despite producing a wealth of “both surprising and illuminating” results (Steiger et al., 2012, p. 102), and responding to the “need to develop a clearer understanding of the process of intergener- ational ... See full document

... the 2012 Census of Agriculture counts only about 2 million farms, fewer than half of which sell more than US$10,000 in agricultural products per year ...the 2012 census is actually negative: ... See full document

... We can also see how Feli-p reacted to Zebaz- tiian’s comment. Feli-p completely disagreed with Zebaztiian’s statement and wrote: “no true, we like rock and we don’t do it for fashion. We do it because we like it” (see ... See full document

... This interactive approach allows students to learn from themselves through the preparation of seminars, lectures, research papers, reports, pro- curement and data analysis to be presented in class and prepared in ... See full document

... According to Sampson (2003), web-based edu- cation is a mode of delivery which includes learning independently by using self-study texts and asyn- chronous communication. Keegan (1996, cited in Sampson, 2003, p. 104) ... See full document

... The establishment of standards has opened the door for teachers to get updated as new opportu- nities for professionalization in the language and in methodology have emerged. Teachers who have been attending the courses ... See full document

... Figure 2: Effect of IBM phrase reordering con- straints in the phrase-based decoder for the NIST Chinese→English translation task. The challenge for optimization techniques is to find a good local optimum while ... See full document