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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A simulation study on strength and fatigue analysis of hydraulic excavator buckets

open access: yesFrontiers in Mechanical Engineering
The bucket of industrial hydraulic excavator is one of the key components in the excavator. Considering the poor model construction ability of the current bucket strength and fatigue simulation method of industrial hydraulic excavator, which leads to the
Wenbin Pan
doaj   +1 more source

Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Precision agriculture is sometimes assumed to diffuse steadily over time, and industry planning frequently extrapolates early adoption trends forward. This study evaluates the accuracy of such expectations by comparing agricultural input dealers' forecasts of future service offerings with the actual levels of offerings that dealerships ...
Trey Malone   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Work Disability, Early Retirement, and Loss of a Loved One in the World Trade Center Health Registry Cohort

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Existing research on the economic outcomes of 9/11 remains limited and has primarily focused on early retirement. Little is known about the prevalence of work disability and loss of a loved one and whether they are associated with survey attrition.
Jennifer Brite   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experience of Creation of Shelter for Special-Purpose

open access: yesМеханика машин, механизмов и материалов, 2012
The short review of designs of shelter of staff truck and mobile complexes of different purpose is given. Open Stock Company «Midivisana» experience on creation of shelter for the special purpose, based on application of program packages of 3D-designing ...
D.V. Mishuta
doaj  

An Evaluation of Mortality Rates and Their Determinants in a Cohort of Former Asbestos Miners in South Africa

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background A causal association between occupational asbestos exposure and lung disease, including pneumoconiosis and mesothelioma, is well established. Elevated mortality among former asbestos miners is expected. However, large‐scale South African studies examining all‐cause mortality in this population are lacking.
Yumna Williams‐Mohamed   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating Dynamics and Wear Modelling to Predict Railway Wheel Profile Evolution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The aim of the work described was to predict wheel profile evolution by integrating multi-body dynamics simulations of a wheelset with a wear model. The wear modelling approach is based on a wear index commonly used in rail wear predictions.
A. Ward   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Differentiating the Clinical and Variant Spectrum of Hardikar Syndrome From Other MED12‐Related Developmental Disorders

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rare X‐linked female‐restricted Hardikar syndrome (HDKR, OMIM # 301068) is characterized by multiple congenital anomalies including orofacial clefts, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and cardiac anomalies, but cognitive and neurobehavioral development is rarely impaired.
Tinne Warmoeskerken   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phenotype Expansion of Malan Syndrome: New Cases and a Review of the Literature

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Malan syndrome is an ultra‐rare overgrowth syndrome caused by pathogenic variants or deletions in nuclear factor one X (NFIX) located at 19p13.2. Here, we report a comprehensive literature review and phenotyping of known patients with Malan syndrome and present a novel cohort of eight patients.
Alex F. Nisbet   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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