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Using Best-Worst Scaling to Determine Market Channel Choice by Small Farmers in Indonesia
A household survey and a novel Best-Worst scaling method are used to examine the relative importance of various buyer characteristics to small potato farmers in Indonesia. A Latent Class Cluster Analysis is used explore whether producersâ utilities for marketing channels are heterogeneous. For the aggregate sample, the attributes related to the buyer providing immediate cash payment, a price premium and always following through on their commitment to buy their potatoes were the three most important attributes. The results of the Latent Class Cluster Analysis found four unique classes or segments of producers, each with distinct utilities for buyer characteristics and interesting differences socio-demographic characteristics. The largest segment (44%) was relatively similar to the aggregate, placing a high importance on cash payment, price and willingness to negotiate. Two segments, 24% and 16% of producers placed a relatively high importance on the buyer providing access to certified potato seed or finance for purchasing inputs, and another segment placed the highest importance on having a long-term relationship with their buyer. This has interesting implications for traders, particularly traders who are interested in securing a long-term relationship with potato producers â simply being able to provide cash at the time potatoes are delivered and/or a small premium may immediately increase the strength of the relationship.Best-Worst Scaling, Latent Class Cluster Analysis, marketing channel choice, Indonesia, potato farmers, small farmers, Marketing,
Patient-centered Primary Care of Adults with Severe or Profound Developmental Disabilities: The PatientâPhysician Relationship
Adults with developmental disabilities receive most of their health care from family physicians, yet little is known of the development of the patient-physician relationship in this population. This qualitative study used a grounded theory approach to describe the development of this relationship between adult patients with severe or profound developmental disabilities and their family physicians. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 caregivers and 15 family physicians of these patients. The recognition of the patientâs vulnerabilities was a common starting point. Caregivers and patients approached the patient-physician relationship as one unit with the person they cared for as part of the process of protecting them, before allowing the relationship to develop along different trajectories. Family physicians described a mutual process of acceptanceâof the patient as a human being, and of the physician by the patient. Greater awareness of these processes of relationship development may improve health care delivery for patients with developmental disabilities
Pork carcass quality : a research review
"Sponsored by National Pork Producers Council, University of Illinois College of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service, and Federal Extension Service and Agricultural Research Service of U.S. Department of Agriculture.""1/70/2M""Per capita consumption of pork has not kept pace with the increase in total meat consumption in recent years. Many factors are credited with influencing this decline but one dominates: In spite of the fact that the industry has made great strides in changing the ratio of lean to fat in hogs produced today, the image of pork being "fat" food lingers in the minds of calorie conscious consumers. The change to production of a more muscular pig with less fat has caused changes in pork quality. This coupled with the industry's efforts to increase pork consumption are bringing demand for more information on factors that affect pork quality. As a result of a poll conducted by the National Pork Producers it was decided that this bulletin should be written covering the following areas of carcass studies: (l) Relationship of quality to consumer acceptance; (2) muscle quality as related to breed differences, genetic influences, nutrition, and environment; (3) relationship of size of cut to consumer acceptance; and (4) relationship of quantity to quality. The research has not been extensive on these subjects. This review is an attempt to assemble what has been pub I ished and to suggest areas for further research. It should be pointed out that the word quality as used in this report refers to characteristics that affect consumer acceptability and processing losses. No effort has been made to include research on acceptability as affected by fat: lean ratios."--Preface.William C. StringerIncludes bibliographical reference
Study of the treatment of tuberculosis cutis with calciferol
1. Calciferol treatment produced clinical and histological
healing in fifteen out of forty cases of tuberculosis
cutis (lupus vulgaris).
2. Effective therapeutic action was found on the tubercle
systems of Lupus Vulgaris.
3. The findings tend to indicate that this action is nonspecific.
4. Histopathological assay of the disease at intervals
during treatment revealed the structural changes involved
in the chemotherapeutic effect of the drug.
5. Histologically the action of calciferol on tuberculosis
cutis is found to be resolution of the tubercle systems,
starting with the epithelioid cells and followed by the
lymphocytic and mononuclear cell exudates, leaving a
variable residuum of fibrous connective tissue.
6. The findings support the view that the mode of action
of calciferol is by promoting the cellular metabolic
disposal of irritant substances arising from tubercle
bacilli; that it occurs in the cytoplasm of the phagocytic
cells; and that this is adequate only in dealing
with small quantities of such substances.
7. No special or characteristic type of fibrosis follows
calciferol therapy but there is no apparent resolution
of fibrous or scar tissue already created by the disease
process.
8. The disease is capable of reactivation from persistent
microscopic foci remaining after apparent clinical
healing if treatment is insufficiently prolonged. It is
necessary to continue treatment or to give a repeat
course of the drug to ensure against such relapses.
9. Doses of 150,000 i.u. daily of calciferol are well
tolerated by the average case and can be safely com-
bined with ultraviolet light irradiation without causing
toxic effects.
10. Local application of calciferol to the diseased area in
a concentration of 5000 i.u. per gm. of cold cream base
is found to accelerate clinical healing in lupus vulgaris.
11. In Lupus Vulgaris the period of administration is
primarily governed by the clinical state of the patient.
In the absence of any toxic manifestations the average
case may continue treatment for 6 -12 months by which
time any significant benefit should have resulted.
12. Confirmation of healing is made by histopathological
examination of biopsy material from the lesions.
13. All treated cases should be reviewed at intervals of
three to six months for at least several years, if not
for life
When did modern humans leave Africa?
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Country curing hams
M.A. Alexanderm (Department of Animal Husbandry), William C. Stringer (Department of Food Science and Nutrition College of Agriculture)Revised 12/7
Country curing hams
M.A. Alexander (Department of Animal Husbandry), William C. Stringer (Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Agriculture)Revised 2/80/10
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