Chinese animal product consumption in the 1990s

Chinese animal product consumption in the 1990 s *

Chinese animal product consumption behaviour was analysed for both urban and rural households using a complete regional consumption dataset that was augmented to include away-from-home consumption. Seven animal product expenditure share equations were estimated with an extended Almost Ideal Demand System model. The results suggest that Chinese consumers will continue to increase their consumpti...

Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between shocks to relative male wages, and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s decade, which is a period characterized by high volatility. Apart from performing analysis of this type for Mexico for the first time, the paper has mainly two contributions. The first is the use of alternative data sources to construct instrume...

Whole Animal Oxygen Consumption

Meat & Animal Product Safety

In the last 40 years a number of modern techniques for improving animal lines have been developed. Artificial insemination has already had an enormous impact on the dairy industry. Techniques such as in vitro fertilization, embryo cloning, nuclear transplantation and transgenesis are reaching maturity. These techniques and their potential effects on the environment, genetic diversity, animal pr...

IRM in the 1990s

from the Database Directions Technologies for IRM 49 Workshop Editors 1 Alfonso F. Cardenas Elizabeth N. Fong, Alan H. Goldfine IRM in a Decentralized/Distributed Introduction 1 Environment 66 Robert M. Curtice Olin Bray SPECIAL ISSUE FROM THE FOURTH DATABASE DIRECTIONS WORKSHOP: INFORMATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT—MAKING IT WORK Chairperson, Technical Committee on Database Engineering Prot. Gio Wi...