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Does agricultural diversification build economic resilience to drought and flood? Evidence from poor households in Zambia [PDF]

, 2020
The adverse effects of weather extremes produce widespread damage and cause severe alterations in the normal functioning of household agricultural production in Zambia.
Jithitikulchai, Theepakorn, Qu, Yeqing, Chonabayashi, Shun   +2 more
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How does agricultural insurance affect agricultural economic resilience? Evidence from 167 prefecture-level cities in major grain-producing regions

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Agricultural insurance serves as a critical arrangement for addressing extreme weather shocks and improving the agricultural risk management system.
Shuang Fu, Wen-zhong Li
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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A Study on the Nonlinear Impact of Agricultural Insurance on the Resilience of Agricultural Economy

Agriculture
With the deepening implementation of agricultural full-cost insurance and crop income insurance, agricultural insurance has gradually become a significant force in promoting agricultural and rural modernization and achieving the strategic goal of ...
Yani Dong, Cheng Gui, Yan Zeng, Chunjie Qi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Electrochemical Synthesis of High‐Quality MXenes: Mechanistic Insights, Applications, Challenges, and Technological Prospects

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrochemical etching provides an eco‐friendly alternative to hazardous HF methods for MXene production. This approach facilitates the selective isolation of the A‐layer from MAX phases with tunable surface terminations. Controlling voltage, electrolytes, temperature, and duration enables the optimal structural integrity. Nevertheless, existing scale
Jagdeep Singh, Madhusudhana M Devadiga, Santosh K. Tiwari, AS Dhaliwal, Gurpreet Singh Selopal   +4 more
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Ultrasensitive Detection of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Infections Using Multivalent DNA Nanostructure‐Enabled Lateral Flow Assay

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A multivalent DNA nanostructure‐enabled lateral flow assay was developed for rapid, ultrasensitive detection of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) nucleocapsid protein. Designer net‐shaped DNA nanostructures (DNA‐Net) presenting PEDV‐specific aptamers achieved ~1000‐fold enhanced binding, enabling detection of viral copies with Ct ≤ 37.42 within 10
Saurabh Umrao, Akhila Naru, Dhanush Gandavadi, Mengxi Zheng, Saraswathi Lanka, Hyeongjun Cho, Chau Nguyen Minh Hoang, Jianqiang Zhang, Ying Fang, Xing Wang   +9 more
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Climate risk, rural land use efficiency, and agricultural economic resilience: evidence from city-level panel data in China

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Against the backdrop of intensifying climate risk, this study investigates the impact of climate risk on agricultural economic resilience, with the aim of providing a scientific basis for constructing adaptive pathways toward agricultural and rural ...
Chao Yan
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Can we be both resilient and well, and what choices do people have? Incorporating agency into the resilience debate from a fisheries perspective.

, 2012
In the midst of a global fisheries crisis, there has been great interest in the fostering of adaptation and resilience in fisheries, as a means to reduce vulnerability and improve the capacity of fishing society to adapt to change.
Coulthard, Sarah, Coulthard S, Sarah Coulthard   +2 more
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Resilience of irrigated agricultural systems to climate change challenges in central-eastern region of Tunisia [PDF]

, 2023
Tunisia is among the Mediterranean countries that are threatened by climate change. The agricultural sector is the economic sector that will be most affected by this phenomenon.
Jeder, Houcine, Mzoughi, Aida, Hamza, Emna Ben, Belhouchette, Hatem   +3 more
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Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer unique properties like high surface area, tunable pores, and functionalization. They excel in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and stimuli‐responsive therapies, enabling targeted and controlled treatments. With roles in cancer therapy and diagnostics, their clinical translation requires addressing challenges in ...
Miguel Manzano, María Vallet‐Regí
wiley   +1 more source