This paper, uses the survey data of 104 households in the city of Sichuan by the method of Logistic regression analysis, has analysised factors of the farmers who involved in agricultural standardization of production or not. Research shows that the cognitive level of standardization, awareness of pesticides’ hazards, their own age and family numbers have significantly influenced on the famers ...

This paper studies the dynamics of durable and nondurable consumption under two alternative assumptions about information updating by households — rational inattention and sticky expectations. We find that sticky expectations due to a fixed cost does a better job of reproducing the infrequent adjustments at the individual level and the slow adjustments at the aggregate level. We then show that ...

STUDIES ON THE STRUCTURE AND PROBLEMS OF FAMILY POULTRY PRODUCTION IN TANZANIA. In order to identify the major disease conditions and factors limiting family chicken production in Coast and Dar-es-Salaam regions of Tanzania a survey was undertaken in six villages in two zones involving a total of 43 households. Field data were collected through identified farmer interviews in the wet and dry se...

In European cities, the rate of population growth has declined significantly, while the number of households has increased. This increase in the number of households is associated with an increase in space for housing. To date, the effects of both a declining population and decreasing household numbers remain unclear. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between population and household n...

The practice of self-medication is widespread in the Republic of Yemen. The objectives of this study were to describe the treatment of malaria in households and to promote rational treatment. We surveyed 201 households with family members suffering from malaria or being treated with antimalarials. Numbers of prescribed and non-prescribed drugs were recorded and treatment rationality assessed. C...

We examine patterns in adults' willingness to pay for health-risk reductions. We allow both their marginal utilities of income and their marginal disutilities from health risks to vary systematically with the structures of their households. Demand by adults for programs which reduce their own health risks is found to be influenced by (1) their parenthood status, (2) the numbers of children in d...

1Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sana’a, Sana’a, Yemen. ABSTRACT The practice of self-medication is widespread in the Republic of Yemen. The objectives of this study were to describe the treatment of malaria in households and to promote rational treatment. We surveyed 201 households with family members suffering from malaria or...

PURPOSE The purpose was to determine the number of semantic neighbors, namely, semantic set size, for 88 nonobjects (J. F. Kroll & M. C. Potter, 1984) and determine how semantic set size related to other measures and age. METHOD Data were collected from 82 adults and 92 preschool children in a discrete association task. The nonobjects were presented via computer, and participants reported the...

In the present article we observe the significations and the dimensions of interaction between instruments and performers in musical performance. This will lead us, firstly, to consider interaction as a phenomenon non-exclusively correlated with the use of numeric technologies. Then, still within the realm of interaction, we describe some of the transmutations introduced by digital music instru...