In this paper we argue that over the last 40 years the context of agronomic research in the developing world has changed significantly. Three main changes are identified: the neoliberal turn in economic and social policy and the rise to prominence of the participation and environmental agendas....

Recent trends in agricultural science have emphasized the need to make local people active participants in the research and development process. Working under the populist banner “Farmer First”, the focus has been on bridging gaps between development professionals and local people, pointing...

Computers have a growing presence in all levels of education and in all kinds of occupations. To be adequately prepared for their chosen professions, undergraduate college students have to be successful in their coursework. To achieve that success, and in consideration of the increasing reliance...

The idea of combining forecasts is of great interest to forecasters and a linear combination of different forecasts can be more accurate than any individual forecast. For model builders, forecast encompassing is a way of checking whether any extra important information is contained in forecasts...

In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their degree of revealed credit constraints. Specifically, we analyze how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may...

There are a number of approaches to detect candidate gene-disease associations including: (i) 'per-genotype', which looks for any difference across the genotype groups without making any assumptions about the direction of the effect or the genetic model; (ii) 'per-allele', which assumes an...