Farmers’ awareness of beneficial and harmful effects of pesticides and factors determining use of pesticides were analyzed using survey data from 21 villages in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Pesticide cost accounts for about 7.7 percent of the gross value of output in cotton, 3.6 percent in vegetables, 2.5 percent in potato, 1.8 percent in modern rice, 1.6 percent in spices and l...

The gun death rates in New Zealand from suicide and homicide are considerably higher than in Australia. In 2005, these gun death rates per 100,000 people were .91 in Australia 1,2,3 and 1.3 in New Zealand.4 Are the higher death rates in New Zealand a result of your country’s relatively relaxed laws in relation to gun ownership? Apart from exceptions such as pistols, military-style semi automati...

Conflicts of interest between insiders (e.g, controlling shareholders) and outsiders (e.g., minority shareholders) are central to the analysis of modern corporation. In an integrated continuous-time contingent claims framework with imperfect corporate governance, we examine a controlling shareholder’s optimal choice of capital structure, ownership concentration, private benefit diversion, consu...

the purpose of the current research was to assess and analyze the effects of land renovation and development schemes. the work was carried out as case study in khor o biabanak area of esfahan province. the research was based upon survey, utilizing questionnaire and interview as tools to gather data. the statistical population contained all the land holdings related to the projects who had recei...

OBJECTIVE Dependence on motorized forms of transportation may contribute to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Shifts in transportation patterns occurring in China provide an ideal opportunity to study the association between vehicle ownership and obesity. Our objective was to determine whether motorized forms of transportation promote obesity. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES A multistage random...