Weather index-based insurance
Weather-index drought insurance : an ex ante evaluation for millet growers in Niger
... Weather-index drought insurance: an ex ante evaluation for millet growers in Niger Abstract In the Sudano-Sahelian region, which includes South Niger, the inter-annual variability of the rainy ...
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Are subsidies to weather-index insurance the best use of public funds? A bio-economic farm model applied to the Senegalese groundnut basin
... and insurance that may be relevant to this ...of index insurance programmes ...those based on the principles of ecological intensification such as the retention of crop residues on the soil, ...
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How might climate change influence farmers' demand for index-based insurance?
... drought index-based insurance con- tracts in Burkina ...(cfaF) based on maize production of 800 kg in a normal year, and extreme damage of zero production in a dry ...The insurance ...
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Tensor-based noninvasive atrial fibrillation complexity index for catheter ablation
... where M ∈ R K×R is the mixing matrix, modeling the propagation of the cardiac electrical sources from the heart to the body surface, S ∈ R R×N is the source matrix that contains mainly the atrial and ventricular sources ...
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A consumption-based accessibility index of transportation and land use
... Accessibility is examined from the economic viewpoint of consumer surplus net of travel disutility. The theory for an accessibility index is derived from discrete choice th[r] ...
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A threshold-based weather model for predicting stripe rust infection in winter wheat
... combined weather vari- ables and model ...plausible weather conditions conducive to WSR, a detailed analysis was performed using hourly weather data in order to characterize the op- timum class of ...
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Advances in weather prediction
... of weather data has expanded greatly, enabling a timely flow of ever more detailed and accurate information to a rich diversity of ...detailed weather information is available at the touch of a finger on a ...
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Eclipses and space weather
... unobservable on other stars; they are too far away. The other reason we study the Sun is to understand its relationship with us. The energy driving the climate and weather all comes from the Sun. It is also the ...
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Community-Based Health Insurance Schemes in Africa: Which Factors Really Induce Membership ?
... In an attempt to provide an answer to these difficulties, health micro-insurance systems have been emerging for some fifteen years in sub-Saharan Africa. Their main goal being to improve the access of economically ...
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Municipalities' Preparedness for Weather Hazards and Response to Weather Warnings.
... of weather-related disaster risks by municipalities has attracted little attention even though these organizations play a key role in protecting the population from extreme meteorological ...for weather ...
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Using Ancillary Text to Index Web-based Multimedia Objects
... James Turner has worked for a number of years on the general problem of using ancillary text to index still and moving images, with emphasis on shot-by-shot indexing of moving images. This work has shown that ap- ...
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Lifeboat Weather Limit Analysis
... LIFEBOAT WEATHER LIMIT ANALYSIS 1.0 INTRODUCTION Throughout this report I will focus on one test program in particular. The purpose of the experimental program was to test the survivability of different model ...
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Cold weather masonry construction
... Quality masonry will only be obtained if recommendations are carefully followed. Masonry units and mortar materials stored on-site must be well covered to keep them dry; thawing a frozen sandpile at the start of the ...
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Simulating compound weather extremes responsible for critical crop failure with stochastic weather generators
... For comparison purposes, if one wants to obtain S trajec- tories that have a low probability (p) observable, then the number of necessary “unconstrained” simulations is of the order of M/p, so that most of those ...
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High-throughput refractive index-based microphotonic sensor for enhanced cellular discrimination
... FSC-SSC based flow cytometry could not distinguish be- tween any of the HL-60 cells populations whereas the microsystem could distinguish between both neutrophil- differentiating conditions and undifferentiated ...
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A blind audio watermarking technique based on a parametric quantization index modulation
... embedding process, whereas the direct use of the fast algorithms reported in [ 24 ] for the forward and inverse DCTs requires 2048 × q multiplications and 5634 × q additions. 7 Experimental results In this section, we ...
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A bibliography on cold weather construction
... Cold weather masonry construction, Winter Building Techniques in Europe.. Cold weather masonry construction..[r] ...
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Radiation and other weather factors
... Radiation and Water Fortunately, two elements of weather, radiation and water, tend to operate at different times. Materials can be irradiated, however, after having been wet by rain or when they have a high ...
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Index vocabulorum
... cervus, corvus, cycnus, equus, lepus, mus, porcus, vacca, vas, vipera matalafium, 136 matutinus v... pensio petrarius, 117 philosophicus v.[r] ...
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