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From First Frost to Last Snow: Tracking the Microclimate Evolution of Greenhouses Across North China’s Winter Spectrum

Agronomy
Global climate change has intensified the challenges of low-temperature, low-light, and high-humidity microclimates in North China’s greenhouses during winter, exposing the limitations of traditional controlled-environment agriculture (CEA) facilities ...
Hongrun Liu, He Zhao, Yanan Tian, Song Liu, Wei Li, Yanfang Wang, Dan Sun, Tianqun Wang, Ning Zhu, Yuan Tao, Xihong Lei   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural Extension in Kenya: lessons from India\u27s Agricultural Extension Service

, 2019
Agricultural Extension plays an important role in agriculture, by providing information and skills to farmers and also linking them to other players in the agriculture sector.
Nkurumwa 0, Agnes, Shelmith, Mucoki W
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralization of public-sector agricultural extension in India: The case of the district-level Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) [PDF]

agricultural extension reform, Decentralization, demand-driven, organizational capacity,
Babu, Suresh C, Glendenning, Claire J.
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith, Kaitlyn Clancy, Siwen Xie, Xiaochen Li, Sarah Khalife, Benjamin van der Woerd, Onaizah Onaizah   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of pest control contributions to the production of three major grain crops in China

Crop Health
Wheat, rice and maize are three major grain crops in China. In 2024, under the organization of National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center, the contribution rates of controlling pests (diseases, insect pests and weeds) on these crops to ...
Hui Liu, Xiaoming Zhu, Fuyan Zhuo, Yue Li, Fuxiang Wang, Ping Li, Zhaoyue Ge, Yongwang Guo, Wancai Liu   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Distributed Micropneumatic Sensors for Soft Robots to Detect Touch and Pose

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots need integrated touch and pose sensing for safe and reliable operation. This work presents a three‐fingered soft gripper with 18 micropneumatic sensors made from the same materials as its pneumatic actuators. By measuring airflow resistance changes in deforming microchannels of the sensors, finger pose and contact are detected, enabling ...
Vilma Lampinen, Mika Pihlajamäki, Md Nazmul Huda, Veikko Sariola   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Farmers’ Perception and Constraints on the Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation in Hulet Eju Enesie District, North-Western Ethiopia

Advances in Agriculture
Irrigation farming is one approach to reduce climate-related risks, and make production possible throughout the year. Nevertheless, farmers were limited to using small-scale irrigation (SSI) in the study area. This study mainly analyzed the perception of
Getasew Daru, Degsew Melak, Wondim Awoke, Sinkie Alemu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural extension - generic challenges and the ingredients for solutions [PDF]

Is agricultural extension in developing countries up to the task of providing the information, ideas, and organization needed to meet food needs? What role should governments play in implementing or facilitating extension services?
Feder, Gershon, Zijp, Willem, Willett, Anthony   +2 more
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Robotics in Ionizing Radiation Environments: Vulnerabilities, Hardening, and Future Directions

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Radiation exposure causes cumulative degradation in robotic sensors, actuators, and electronic logic, often leading to undetected failures. This study maps component vulnerabilities, evaluates hardening and shielding strategies, and identifies testing gaps that must be addressed to enable next‐generation radiation‐tolerant robotic systems.
Francis A. K. Djirackor, Josephine T. Djirackor, Amanuel Abrdo Tereda, Sun Yi, Younho Seong   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source