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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
wiley   +1 more source

Building an optimal refueling plan using aggregated information about route parameter values from open sources

Научно-технический вестник информационных технологий, механики и оптики
The paper presents the results of a study of approaches to solving the problem of combinatorial conditional optimization of the refueling plan along a fixed automobile route, taking into account restrictions on tank volume, initial and final fuel volumes
M. S. Esin, M. V. Abramov
doaj   +1 more source

A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach, Brian C. Briggeman, Jason S. Bergtold, Aleksan Shanoyan, Sarah A. Low, Brandi Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak, Claudia Bazzani, Andreas C. Drichoutis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improved maximum likelihood estimators of the parameters of the log-exponential power distribution with applications

Scientific African
Owing that ensuring true representative samples from a population is dependent on sampling via sample estimators, in this paper, we established the sample maximum likelihood (ML) estimators of the location (μ), scale (σ2) and shape (β) parameters of Log ...
Ajíbólá T. Sóyínká, Petronilla U. Ogoke, Akinlolú A. Olósundé   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumer Acceptance of New Sustainable Food Technologies: Upcycling Technology, Biostimulants, and Artificial Intelligence

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food systems have a significant impact on environmental sustainability, underscoring the need for innovative technologies to support more sustainable agricultural methods. However, the adoption of these technologies hinges on consumer acceptance, making the analysis of consumer perceptions essential.
Greta Castellini, Guendalina Graffigna
wiley   +1 more source

Robustness in sparse linear models: relative efficiency based on robust approximate message passing

, 2015
Understanding efficiency in high dimensional linear models is a longstanding problem of interest. Classical work with smaller dimensional problems dating back to Huber and Bickel has illustrated the benefits of efficient loss functions.
Bradic, Jelena
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Modeling the separation of water‐in‐oil emulsions in continuously fed gravity settlers using millifluidic experiments

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Emulsion separation remains a persistent challenge in chemical and process industries due to the metastable nature of dispersed droplets. In gravity separators, the overall separation rate is governed by the formation of a densely packed zone (DPZ) of deforming and coalescing droplets that mediates between the dispersed and continuous phases ...
Andrei Zlobin, José Esteban Andino‐Enriquez, Thomas Gouëzec, Maurice Bourrel, Enric Santanach‐Carreras, Nicolas Passade‐Boupat, Laurence Talini, François Lequeux, Pascal Panizza   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new drag and lift correlation for spherocylinders from fully resolved Immersed Boundary Method

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Many industrial processes deal with non‐spherical particles, e.g., mineral mining and biomass conversion. It is crucial to understand the particles' hydrodynamics to control and optimize these processes. To extend the current state‐of‐the‐art from arrays of spherical particles to spherocylindrical particles, we performed extensive particle ...
A. H. Huijgen, Y. Sterkenburgh, Y. Tang, N. G. Deen, M. W. Baltussen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Weibull-Power Function Scale Parameter: A Loss-Function Comparison Study

UMYU Scientifica Journal
This study examines the estimation of the scale parameter of the Weibull-Power Function Distribution (WPFD) using both maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches.
Hauwa Abdulrahman Dangana, Abubakar Usman, Jamilu Garba, Ibrahim Abubakar Sadiq   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source