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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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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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Developing a Global Soil Regime [PDF]

, 2015
From the 1960s onwards, the global community became more aware of the phenomena of air and water pollution. More recently, the issues of climate change, loss of biodiversity, desertification, drought, and land degradation have become more prominent ...
Boer, Ben, Hannam, Ian
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 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

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
wiley   +1 more source

Midline Household Survey Results: Rupandehi, Nepal [PDF]

, 2020
This report summarizes the main findings from the household midline survey conducted in seven villages of the district of Rupandehi, one of CCAFS site, in Nepal in July 2019.
Bhusal, Aastha, Khatri, Laxman, Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Nagpal, Mansi, Neupane, Santosh, Pudasaini, Roshan   +5 more
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A Robust Deep Temporal Causal Discovery Platform for Single‐Cell Gene Regulatory Network Reconstruction

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
scTIGER2.0 is a deep‐learning framework that infers gene regulatory networks from single‐cell RNA sequencing data. By integrating correlation, pseudotime ordering, deep learning and bootstrap‐based significance testing, it reduces false positives and reveals directional gene interactions.
Nishi Gupta, Madison Dautle, Shaoqiang Zhang, Yong Chen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainable Development Goal 2 (zero hunger) requires prohibition of nuclear weapons

, 2023
A nuclear war between the United States and Russia could produce a nuclear winter, with catastrophic consequences for global food supplies.  Smoke from fires ignited by nuclear weapons exploded on cities and industrial targets would block out sunlight, causing dark, cold, and dry surface conditions, with surface temperatures below freezing even in
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VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee, Chanhong Hwang, Hyunseok Kang, Yechan Park, Hangwoo Jin, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Eunmi Choi, Dugki Min   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source