Agricultural biotechnology, by changing the process of agricultural production in the agri-food sector has posed serious challenges for the industry. The fundamental problem was that the biotechnology industry, with tremendous vertical integration from the research sector through...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2019/v12i130141
Farm-raised Atlantic salmon is the most important finfish species produced by the Canadian aquaculture industry, which has been facing drastic reduction in its demand since the food incidence of polychlorinated biphenyls occurred. Different policies at various stages of productio...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2017/30800
The nature of input relationships has important consequences for regulatory policies since the impact of rate-of-return regulation depends on the extent of substitution that is offered by production technologies which are adopted by regulated firms. The use of classical regressio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28214
This article specified a semiparametric stochastic frontier function using generalized additive models that accounts for random noise in the sample data. We estimated the parameters of the model by applying the generalized spline-smoothing approach to measure technical efficiency...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5149
Urbanization has posed some tremendous challenges which are related to environmental stresses through increased energy consumption. These challenges have drawn attention to the need to implement urbanization with sustainable energy consumption globally. The present study aims to...
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Research Article10.9734/jemt/2023/v29i41089
The nature of input-output relationships in general and ratio data in particular has important consequences for practitioners when the data envelopment analysis method is used to measure technical efficiency of decision making units or production units. Since the data envelopmen...
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Research Article10.9734/jamcs/2020/v35i130239
The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the causal relationship between global CO2 emissions and six of their potentially contributing factors (i.e., economic growth, energy consumption, population, trade openness, financial development and corruption), by using a pan...
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Research Article10.9734/jemt/2019/v25i430201
One of the controversial debates in environmental economics, which began in the 1980s, is the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth. The study investigated the relationship between per capita carbon dioxide emissions and gross domestic product per capit...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v32i330153