Accounting for ecosystem services and asset value: pilot accounts for KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Jane Turpie, Gwyneth Letley, Joshua Weiss, Kevin Schmidt

“…The Province is highly diverse, with eight biomes, large proportions under communal, private and state tenure, globally important biodiversity, variable landscape condition and encompassing catchment areas of nine river systems. …”
Get full text

The relationship between organisational support for career development, organisational commitment, and turnover intentions among healthcare workers in township hospitals of Henan,... by Huan Wu, Yaqing Liu

“…The healthcare workers’ turnover intentions had significant differences in gender, age, marital status, education, professional title, and organisational tenure. OSCD had no significant direct relationship with turnover intentions, while having a significant positive direct relationship with organisational commitment. …”
Get full text

Discriminatory cultural practices on youths and women’s access to family land among the Ndali: Insights from Local leaders in the Southern Highlands Zone in Tanzania by Fredrick Bwire Magina, Agnes Nkundwe Mwasumbi

“…Empirical evidences have shown that access to land held under customary tenure for both women and the youth within the Ndali tribe is largely influenced by multiple cultural norms including patrilineal lineage, commoditization of women through dowry payment upon marriage, and gender-based discrimination on inheritance. …”
Get full text

Acacia Catechu Trees in Rice Fields: A Traditional Agroforestry System of Northern Bangladesh by Md. Alamgir Kabir, K.M. Masum Billah, Md. Masud Parvez

“…In general, density of khoir trees was found higher in small holdings (less than 2 ha) with secured land tenure. Trees on farms were of uneven age indicating the khoir + rice system biologically sustainable. …”
Get full text

Vulnerability of Worldwide Pastoralism to Global Changes and Interdisciplinary Strategies for Sustainable Pastoralism by Shikui Dong, Lu Wen, Shiliang Liu, Xiangfeng Zhang, James P. Lassoie, Shaoliang Yi, Xiaoyan Li, Jinpeng Li, Yuanyuan Li

“…Socioeconomic factors, such as changes in land tenure, agriculture, sedentarization, and institutions are fracturing large-scale pastoral ecosystems into spatially isolated systems. …”
Get full text

Impact of adoption of climate smart agricultural practices to minimize production risk in Ethiopia: A systematic review by Benyam Tadesse, Murad Ahmed

“…The factors that affect climate smart agriculture in Ethiopia were age of the family head, sex, household size, education level, distance to farm land, farm size, farming system, farm income source, off-farm income, access to irrigation, market access, access to agricultural credit, access to extension service, membership to organizations, farmers’ perceptions of rainfall shocks, crop yield, access to climate information, access to agricultural inputs, slope, agro ecology, change in precipitation, tenure security and livestock ownership. The impact of climate smart agriculture practice improves soil fertility status, increased crop yield, per capita nutrition consumption and dietary diversity, increased income of smallholder farmers, hence reducing poverty. …”
Get full text

The association between the well-being and workability among university staff during the COVID‑19 pandemic by I. Sellami, A. Abbes, A. Haddar, N. Kotti, M. L. Masmoudi, K. Jmal Hammami, M. Hajjaji

“…The respondents’ mean age was 51.4±6.7 years and 67.7% were female. The average job tenure was 17.9 ± 8 years. The mean score of WAS was 7.5±1.8. …”
Get full text

Impact of Grain Subsidy Reform on the Land Use of Smallholder Farms: Evidence from Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in China by Xinru Han, Ping Xue, Ningning Zhang

“…We also found that China’s grain subsidy reform had a significant and positive effect on the amount of outflow land area, while the impact of subsidy reform on land tenure was insignificant. Our findings suggest that while encouraging large-scale farms, it is necessary to take into account farmers’ small-scale operations and gradually promote the transformation of small-scale operations to large-scale operations. …”
Get full text

Validity of student evaluation of teaching in higher education: a systematic review by Frank Quansah, Andrews Cobbinah, Kenneth Asamoah-Gyimah, John Elvis Hagan, John Elvis Hagan

“…IntroductionData obtained from students regarding the quality of teaching are used by higher education administrators to inform decisions concerning tenure, promotion, course development and instructional modifications, among others. …”
Get full text

Looking again at Taiwan's Lü Hsiu-lien: A female vice president or a feminist vice president? by Tang, Wen-hui Anna, Chung, Emma Teng

“…Her position as both a pioneering feminist and a female vice president prompts us to ask whether she was able to promote a pro-woman agenda during her tenure as vice president. We conclude that despite constraints on Lü's pursuit of an overt feminist agenda-including the patriarchal political culture and a gap between Lü and Taiwan's contemporary feminist movement-she is significant as a female leader who transcends both the Asian dynastic model and the tokenistic model of women as "flower vases," while also contributing vitally to the development of an indigenous Taiwanese feminist theory.…”
Get full text
Get full text

A Note on PhD Population Growth in Biomedical Sciences by Ghaffarzadegan, Navid, Hawley, Joshua, Larson, Richard Charles, Xue, Yi

“…Our analysis shows how R-0 in biomedical fields has increased over time, and we estimate that there is approximately only one tenure-track position in the US for every 6.3 PhD graduates, which means that the rest need to get jobs outside academia or stay in lower-paid temporary positions. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Moving Violations: Pairing an Illegitimate Learning Hierarchy with Trainee Status Mobility for Acquiring New Skills When Traditional Expertise Erodes by Kellogg, Katherine C, Myers, Jenna E, Gainer, Lindsay, Singer, Sara J

“…This challenged community members' existing status, which was based on the historical distinctions of long tenure and expertise in traditional tasks. In three sites, the introduction of this illegitimate learning hierarchy sparked status competition among trainees and trainers, and trainees collectively resisted learning new tools and techniques. …”
Get full text

"A Great Civilizing Agent": Architecture at MIT, Drawing Education, and Boston's Cultural Elite, 1865-1881 by Dubbs, Katherine Pearl

“…For the duration of his tenure, Ware was part of a powerful network of arts patrons and professionals in Massachusetts who ascribed a civilizing purpose to art, an idealized category which included architecture. …”
Get full text

Modeling Customer Lifetimes with Multiple Causes of Churn by Braun, Michael, Schweidel, David A.

“…In addition to varying across customers based on geodemographic information, the magnitude of the damper effect depends on a customer's tenure to date. We discuss how our framework can be used to tailor the firm's retention strategy to individual customers, both in terms of which customers to target and when retention efforts should be deployed.…”
Get full text

Demography and design in an R&D organization by Soh, Myung-Jin, 1958-

Get full text

The exploration of attributes aligning supply chain strategy & resilience execution by Cope, Alexander Randon, Yuan, Liqing

Get full text

Econometric analysis on factors affecting HDB and private property resale prices through hedonic pricing models by Ong, Michelle Hui Fang, Toh, Ding Xiang, Lim, Vaneson Dun

“…Factors such as floor area, floor level and years of tenure left were found to have a significant and positive relationship with resale prices in both markets. …”
Get full text

Examining the incremental and interactive effects of implicit motives with explicit traits in predicting counterproductive work behavior by Tan, Lay Hui

“…After excluding participants that failed the attention check questions, and those that did not meet the eligibility criteria (i.e., a minimum of 20 hours working hours per week and two months tenure), the final sample consisted of 70 participants. …”
Get full text

How interest groups shape industrial policy: the case of MENA countries by Kurdli, Susan Nashra

“…This is primarily because a leader who expects long tenure needs to maximize growth beyond the export of volatile and exhaustive natural resources. …”
Get full text

The United States and Singapore, 1974–1980 : a diplomatic history by Ong, Glenn Kok Hui

“…During Jimmy Carter’s tenure, the U.S. embraced an optimistic view of America’s relative position in the Cold War, and elevated priorities like human rights and arms proliferation that Singaporean policymakers interpreted as further evidence of American retrenchment from Southeast Asia. …”
Get full text