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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim, Hayeon Shin, Seik Park, Changbeom Shim, Seonggun Joe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Spontaneous Plants and Vegetation: Advantages and Management Challenges. [PDF]

Plants (Basel)
Bretzel F, Romano D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating satellite data and field surveys to predict bird communities in the Peruvian Amazon. [PDF]

PLoS One
Slater AC, Kirkby CA, Ketola C, Hartley IR, Bush A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vertical farming as a land sparing strategy: GHG implications for UK agricultural landscapes.

Clean Food Syst
Gargaro M, Li K, Murphy RJ, Hastings A, Harris ZM.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Neighborhood Revitalization and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes in Midlife and Older Adults Living in Low-Income Neighborhoods in the Bronx, New York: Protocol for a Natural Experiment and Multimethod Community-Based Study. [PDF]

JMIR Res Protoc
Chambers EC, Hanna DB, Lounsbury DW, Hernández D, Gao Q, Li L, Kim RS, Lucan SC, Li Y.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A machine learning algorithm to explore the impact of agricultural land-use types on CO2 emissions in Vietnam in the period 1990-2019. [PDF]

PLoS One
Nguyen AT, Nguyen TA, Tran TH, Doan XT, Trinh Phuong N, Thi TT, Le NA, Do Thi T, Le Huyen T.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source