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      <title>Climate risk management in Central Asian agriculture: A situation analysis</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74457</link>
      <description>Title: Climate risk management in Central Asian agriculture: A situation analysis
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Pawlowski, Ira
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The region of Central Asia, and in particularly the agricultural sector, is extremely vulnerable to climate change risks. The countries have started to develop adaptation strategies and climate risk management strategies, most of them described in the National Communications on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. These and other efforts are presented and commented in this paper.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The EU strategy for Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan foreign policy</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74456</link>
      <description>Title: The EU strategy for Central Asia and Kyrgyzstan foreign policy
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Momosheva, Nazira
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: [Introduction] The change of the strategic significance of Central Asia in last two decades had considerable consequences on the domestic and foreign policies in the region. The newly independent Central Asian states became a target of interplay between political and economic interests of several countries. The formation of the foreign policies in Central Asian states takes place under extremely difficult conditions and aims to balance between different powers. Historically, Central Asia has very close links with Russia. In addition, there are some other actors like United States, European Union, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and several Middle Eastern states, playing important role in the region. Their participation adds to the development of international relations in the region a comprehensive and de-facto global dimension. The primary goal of the countries in Central Asia is the closer involvement into the world integration processes, as well as solution of the intra-relationship problems, influenced by surrounding neighbors: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, China and India. There is a highly controversial discussion among the political experts about the future of Central Asia. Some scientists believe that the region will remain the part of the Eurasian space. Some researchers consider the future prospects of the region to be limited due to factors like lack of direct access to global communications, low military capabilities, etc. (...)</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Robustness of clustering methods for identification of potential falsifications in survey data</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74455</link>
      <description>Title: Robustness of clustering methods for identification of potential falsifications in survey data
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Storfinger, Nina; Winker, Peter
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Falsifications of survey data might result in specific statistical properties of the generated data differing from those of the surveyed population. Clustering methods have been proposed to identify potential falsifications based on such indicators. As any statistical procedure, the classification might entail errors, i.e. misclassification of honest interviewers as potential falsifiers and failing to identify all falsifications as such. Typically, the robustness of a statistical classification procedure is studied using a large number of problem instances with known allocation to the groups. However, given the sensitivity of falsifications in survey data, the access to datasets comprising correctly identified falsifications is very limited. Consequently, a bootstrap based approach is introduced and applied to assess the clustering method. This approach also allows modifying settings such as number of interviews per interviewer or share of falsifications in the dataset and to study the impact of these settings on the quality of the assignments. Results based on a small real dataset with identified falsifications are reported.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Advertisements or friends? Formal and informal recruitment methods in Tanzania</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74454</link>
      <description>Title: Advertisements or friends? Formal and informal recruitment methods in Tanzania
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Egbert, Henrik; Fischer, Gundula; Bredl, Sebastian
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Only insufficient data are available on the recruitment methods of enterprises in Africa. Our aim is to investigate the recruitment methods of small and medium sized private companies in Tanzania. We test whether the way formal and informal methods are employed is similar or different to the way they are employed by companies in Europe or North America. Data collected by half-standardized questionnaires in Mwanza show that informal methods (such as referrals by friends) are primarily applied for low-ranking positions while formal methods, particularly newspaper advertisements, are used for high-ranking positions. This stands in contrast to findings from industrialized countries where informal methods are more important for filling high-ranking positions. For the vacancy period of high- and lowranking positions patterns do not differ from those in industrialized countries.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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