The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Research Productivity Among Orthodontic Residents and Fellows Across Training Programs in the United States. [PDF]
Shakhmurov A +8 more
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Innovations in Gastric Cancer Surgery During Early Minimally Invasive Era and Future Perspectives
With continuing revelations in tumor biology and the emergence of artificial intelligence, new horizons for surgical innovation are opening. At the center of this transformative journey stands the innovative surgeon, driven by passion, guided by data, and steadfast in the commitment to patient safety and quality of life.
Reut El‐On, Young‐Woo Kim
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The effect of a modified Peyton's four-step teaching method on orthokeratology skills: an experimental study. [PDF]
Wang J +5 more
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Human‐in‐the‐Loop Swarms: A Bionic Swarm Approach to Real‐World Soil Mapping
This article introduces the “Bionic Swarm,” a novel system that lowers the barriers to real‐world swarm validation by abstracting difficult hardware tasks to app‐guided human agents. We demonstrate the system's utility through the experimental validation of a geotechnical soil‐mapping swarm algorithm and show superior performance to baseline approaches
Petras Swissler +5 more
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Childhood social characteristics and drug-related mortality by age 41: a register-based study of Finnish birth cohorts 1982-2004. [PDF]
Laakso SP +4 more
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Four decades of retinal vessel segmentation research (1982–2025) are synthesized, spanning classical image processing, machine learning, and deep learning paradigms. A meta‐analysis of 428 studies establishes a unified taxonomy and highlights performance trends, generalization capabilities, and clinical relevance.
Avinash Bansal +6 more
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Risk Factors and Annual Rates of Cognitive Decline in Elderly Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Retrospective Cohort Study. [PDF]
Liu M, Hao Z, Chen J.
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ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly advanced the field of electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, enabling real‐time, remote, and patient‐centric cardiac care. This paper presents a comprehensive survey of AI assisted IoT‐based ECG monitoring systems, focusing on the integration of emerging technologies such as ...
Amrita Choudhury +2 more
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Law enforcement responses to mental illness in rural Uganda: A qualitative study of practices, challenges, and opportunities for training. [PDF]
Lee YJ +11 more
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