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SOVEREIGN: An Autonomous Neural System for Incrementally Learning Planned Action Sequences to Navigate Towards a Rewarded Goal [PDF]

, 2007
How do reactive and planned behaviors interact in real time? How are sequences of such behaviors released at appropriate times during autonomous navigation to realize valued goals? Controllers for both animals and mobile robots, or animats, need reactive
Gnadt, William, Grossberg, Stephen
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Cavity-enhanced optical detection of carbon nanotube Brownian motion [PDF]

, 2012
Optical cavities with small mode volume are well-suited to detect the vibration of sub-wavelength sized objects. Here we employ a fiber-based, high-finesse optical microcavity to detect the Brownian motion of a freely suspended carbon nanotube at room ...
D. Hunger, E. M. Weig, I. Favero, J. Reichel, L. Ost, S. Stapfner, Weaver W.   +6 more
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How Does Cultural and Colonial Heritage Affect Optimal Branding Strategies? Evidence From the Rice Sector in Senegal

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Development and characterization of chia oil-activated ginger starch-feather keratin biocomposite for prolonged post-harvest preservation of tomato fruits

Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications
In response to the challenges posed by current postharvest preservation methods, this study focuses on the development and characterization of a ginger starch-waste feather keratin (GS-FK) composite functionalized with chia oil (CO).
Esther S. Enidiok, Sunday E. Enidiok, Divine O. Anakor, Georgina O. Erifeta, Palanisamy Thanikaivelan, Olarewaju M. Oluba   +5 more
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A Qualitative Analysis of the Commercial Broiler System, and the Links to Consumers' Nutrition and Health, and to Environmental Sustainability: A South African Case Study

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
Food systems face growing challenges to meet targets of Zero Hunger (SDG 2), and South Africa is no exception given its triple burden of malnutrition, foodborne disease outbreaks, and threats of climate change to food production.
Kevin Queenan, Soledad Cuevas, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Michael Chimonyo, Rob Slotow, Rob Slotow, Barbara Häsler, Barbara Häsler   +7 more
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Ending Poverty in Our Generation: Save the Children's Vision for a Post-2015 Framework [PDF]

, 2013
The Millennium development Goals -- one of the most resonant and unifying agreements in political history -- reach a turning point in 2015, the deadline for their realisation. We must do everything in our power to achieve them.

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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
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, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
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How agroecological rice intensification can assist in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2022
The UN Development Program has set forth a roster of sustainable development goals (SDGs) for eradicating hunger and poverty with other consequential targets also to be achieved by 2030. Agroecological production strategies can help accomplish about half
Amod K. Thakur, Krishna G. Mandal, Rajeeb K. Mohanty, Norman Uphoff   +3 more
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Energy‐Efficient Knapsack Optimization Using Probabilistic Memristor Crossbars

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
The knapsack problem, a nondeterministic polynomial‐time (NP)‐hard combinatorial optimization problem, is solved energy‐efficiently. This work presents an algorithm‐hardware co‐design and implementation for practical (non‐ideal) NP‐hard problems with destabilizing self‐feedback (non‐zero diagonal) and non‐binary Hamiltonian representations under analog
Jinzhan Li, Suhas Kumar, Su‐in Yi
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A community‐partnered process for construct & measure development: The 3Rs: Reading, Racial equity, & Relationships

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper describes a 3‐year community–partnered research initiative focused on advancing early reading, racial equity, and relationships—collectively known as the 3Rs Initiative. The project brought together researchers and community members committed to ensuring that all adults in the county embody a shared “3Rs mindset” to better support ...
Shannon B. Wanless, Meghan C. Orman, Shallegra Moye, Caitlin F. Spear   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source