A study was conducted to identify and determine burdens of ticks infesting Borana cattle in the Borana Province of Ethiopia. Rhipicephalus pulchellus, Rhipicephalus pravus, Rhipicephalus muhsamae, Rhipicephalus praetextatus, Rhipicephalus evertsi evertsi, Amblyomma gemma, Amblyomma variegatum, Amblyomma cohaerens, Amblyomma lepidum, Hyalomma truncatum, Hyalomma marginatum rufipes and Boophilus ...

There is growing attention to how policymakers and bureaucrats think about administrative burdens, but we know less public tolerance for burdens. We examine burden in two major programmes (Medicaid SNAP) using a representative sample of US residents. show broad support work requirements weaker generally making it difficult access benefits. People with conservative beliefs, greater opposition so...

Burden of proof has recently come to be a topic of interest in argumentation systems for artificial intelligence (Prakken and Sartor, 2006, 2007, 2009; Gordon and Walton, 2007, 2009), but so far the main work on the subject seems to be in that type of dialogue which has most intensively been investigated generally, namely persuasion dialogue. The most significant exception is probably deliberat...

The legal concept of burden of proof is notoriously complex and ambiguous. Various kinds of burdens of proof have been distinguished, such as the burden of persuasion, burden of production and tactical burden of proof, and these notions have been described by different scholars in different ways. They have also been linked in various ways with notions like presumptions, standards of proof, and ...

The tax system designed by Congress imposes significant administrative burdens on taxpayers. IRS decisions regarding how it administers laws can add to congressionally imposed burdens. are consequential and hurt some people, especially lower- or moderate-income individual taxpayers, more than others. While the strives measure reduce time money taxpayers spend comply with their obligations, does...

Job insecurity exerts negative effects on self-reported health. Using the Spanish Survey of Household Finances for 2011–2014, this paper asks whether and to what extent debt burdens enhance these detrimental health effects. To address potential endogeneity problems surrounding question, adopts Deb Trivedi’s (Econometrics Journal, 9, 307–331, 2006) econometric approach. The results show that eff...