Project Oxford is a set of APIs that let's us, the developers, harness the power of machine learning without having the know how to implement from scratch. Project Oxford provides services focused on Vision, Emotion, Speech, and more and exposes it through REST API as well as client SDKs.
Project Oxford is a set of APIs that let's us, the developers, harness the power of machine learning without having the know how to implement from scratch. Project Oxford provides services focused on Vision, Emotion, Speech, and more and exposes it through REST API as well as client SDKs.
[IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar] Liquid milk: Cash Constraints and the Timing o...IFPRI Gender
Gender Methods Seminar, Dec 13, 2016
Berber Kramer, Research Fellow, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (IFPRI)
Abstract:
This paper analyzes implications of cash constraints for collective marketing, using the case of the Kenyan dairy sector. Collective marketing through for instance cooperatives can improve smallholder farmer income but relies on informal, non-enforceable agreements to sell outputs collectively. Sideselling of output in the local market occurs frequently and is typically attributed to price differences between the market and cooperative. This paper provides an alternative explanation, namely that farmers sell in the local market when they are cash-constrained, since cooperatives defer payments while buyers in local markets pay cash immediately. Building on semi-parametric estimation techniques for panel data, we find robust evidence of this theory. High-frequency high-detail panel data show that farmers sell more in the local market, in particular to buyers who pay cash immediately, in weeks with low cash at hand. Moreover, households cope with health shocks by selling more milk in the local market and less to the cooperative, but only in weeks they are not covered by health insurance. Effects are concentrated among female dairy farmers. For them, increased flexibility in payment and the provision of insurance through agricultural cooperatives can potentially reduce side-selling and improve the performance of collective marketing arrangements.
Screencast available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d48bte3yzsd5iwz/2016-12-13%2012.03%2012_13%2C%207AB%2C%2012-1pm%2C%20Gender%20Methods%20Seminar%20with%20Berber%20Kramer%20.wmv?dl=0
End to-end native iOS, Android and Windows apps wtih XamarinJames Montemagno
Xamarin enables C# developers to become native iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows mobile app developers overnight. Learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. See how to extend an app with Microsoft Azure App Service creating a connected experience while sharing logic with a .NET backend running on Azure. Next, we take a look at automating the mobile apps with Xamarin Test Cloud for automated user interface testing. Finally, we tie it all together into VSTS to build and distribute our mobile apps with HockeyApp with each commit. By the end of this session you will a full grasp of end-to-end development with Xamarin.
[IFPRI Gender Methods Seminar] Liquid milk: Cash Constraints and the Timing o...IFPRI Gender
Gender Methods Seminar, Dec 13, 2016
Berber Kramer, Research Fellow, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division (IFPRI)
Abstract:
This paper analyzes implications of cash constraints for collective marketing, using the case of the Kenyan dairy sector. Collective marketing through for instance cooperatives can improve smallholder farmer income but relies on informal, non-enforceable agreements to sell outputs collectively. Sideselling of output in the local market occurs frequently and is typically attributed to price differences between the market and cooperative. This paper provides an alternative explanation, namely that farmers sell in the local market when they are cash-constrained, since cooperatives defer payments while buyers in local markets pay cash immediately. Building on semi-parametric estimation techniques for panel data, we find robust evidence of this theory. High-frequency high-detail panel data show that farmers sell more in the local market, in particular to buyers who pay cash immediately, in weeks with low cash at hand. Moreover, households cope with health shocks by selling more milk in the local market and less to the cooperative, but only in weeks they are not covered by health insurance. Effects are concentrated among female dairy farmers. For them, increased flexibility in payment and the provision of insurance through agricultural cooperatives can potentially reduce side-selling and improve the performance of collective marketing arrangements.
Screencast available here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d48bte3yzsd5iwz/2016-12-13%2012.03%2012_13%2C%207AB%2C%2012-1pm%2C%20Gender%20Methods%20Seminar%20with%20Berber%20Kramer%20.wmv?dl=0
End to-end native iOS, Android and Windows apps wtih XamarinJames Montemagno
Xamarin enables C# developers to become native iOS, Android, and Microsoft Windows mobile app developers overnight. Learn how to leverage your existing .NET and C# skills to create iOS and Android mobile apps in Visual Studio with Xamarin. See how to extend an app with Microsoft Azure App Service creating a connected experience while sharing logic with a .NET backend running on Azure. Next, we take a look at automating the mobile apps with Xamarin Test Cloud for automated user interface testing. Finally, we tie it all together into VSTS to build and distribute our mobile apps with HockeyApp with each commit. By the end of this session you will a full grasp of end-to-end development with Xamarin.
