Dear Editor; I wish to thank the authors for their careful comment (1), on our short report entitled “Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning: A Case Series in North Iran” (2). Unfortunately, as we were excited to display the findings of our series, some facts were missed from the methods of the article. The results presented in our series was collected from eight patients with definitive aluminum phosp...

Time series data (1966 to 2017) that covered prices of six selected major exporting rice markets in the world were used determine integration world. The collected analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. In spite long-run price association among markets, poor extent market co-integration made law one (LOP) not hold i.e. elusive these markets. Except for Pakistan China all rem...

Rice feeds more than half of the world’s population. In much of Asia, rice is the staple food. The highest producing countries of rice are in Asia; in 2004, China produced 177,434,000 Mt (metric ton) of rice paddy, India produced 129,000,000 Mt and Indonesia produced 54,060,816 Mt (FAOSTAT 2005). Agricultural biotechnology has been developing at a rapid pace, and genetic engineering has been pr...

The empirical regularities of behavioral economics, especially loss aversion, time inconsistency, other-regarding preferences, herd behavior, and framing of decisions, present significant challenges to traditional approaches to food security. The formation of price expectations, hoarding behavior, and welfare losses from highly unstable food prices all depends on these behavioral regularities. ...

Currently, there are no set standards or quantitative guidelines available in the U.S. for arsenic levels in rice cereal, one of the most common first solid foods for infants. The objective of this study was to evaluate whether the detected levels of inorganic arsenic (As(i)) in rice cereal in the U.S. market are safe for consumption by infants and toddlers. A risk assessment was conducted base...

The extent, pattern, and degree of integration are analyzed in a multivariate system with cointegrating restrictions. The extent of the market is found by identifying locations that are linked by trade and where prices share identical long–run information (permanent component). The pattern of integration characterizes interdependence and is analyzed by estimating a vector error correction model...