Policy Reforms Affecting Agricultural Incentives: Much Achieved, Much Still Needed

Policy Reforms Affecting Agricultural Incentives: Much Achieved, Much Still Needed

For decades, earnings from farming in many developing countries have been depressed by a pro-urban bias in own-country policies, as well as by governments of richer countries favoring their farmers with import barriers and subsidies. Both sets of policies reduce national and global economic welfare and inhibit agricultural trade and economic growth. They almost certainly add to inequality and p...

Protein for preterm infants: how much is needed? How much is enough? How much is too much?

Preterm infants require considerably more protein to achieve normal intrauterine growth rates than is commonly fed to them during their first postnatal days. Continuing protein nutrition to maintain normal growth rates often is not achieved until several weeks after birth. Most very preterm infants do not receive the protein necessary to produce the 2-3 kilograms of body mass over a 12-16 week ...

How Much Face Information Is Needed?

Multimodal 2D+3D face biometrics commonly report that performance improves relative to that of a single modality. Complete 2D and 3D data can be available during training because they are acquired in a controlled scenario. However, in the evaluation scenario, only partial 2D and 3D data can be acquired and hence available for recognition. In this paper we present experimental results that deter...

sTABIlITy AND cohesIoN: how mUch Is NeeDeD?

Traditionally, the U.S. Army has assigned its units to specific geographic locations, and then staffed those units by rotating individual soldiers into them throughout the year. Starting with the operations in Bosnia and Kosovo, however, entire units were deployed and subsequently replaced by other units—a practice that contrasted starkly with the individual replacement system. Unit replacement...

Much more research needed on injury prevention.