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Lab‐Scale Fabrication Process Selection for Soft Robotics: Benchmarking, Tradeoffs, and Guidelines for Formative Manufacturing of Soft Silicone Components

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Fabrication shapes soft robot performance, but benchmarking data and selection guidelines remain scarce. We fabricate silicone actuators using two molding techniques and three mold types, characterizing them with cycle testing, microscopy, profilometry, and 3D imaging. Applying our lab‐scale, soft robotics‐specific fabrication evaluation criteria shows
Charlotte M. Folinus   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A NORTHEAST BORROWER TRAINING PROGRAM: EVOLUTION AND IMPACTS [PDF]

open access: yes
A financial training program designed by Cooperative Extension specialists was provided to over 2,000 USDA/FSA borrowers from the Northeast during the period 1994-1999.
Hanson, Gregory D., Parsons, Robert L.
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The role of venture‐financed startups in innovation for US agriculture

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract To evaluate the role played by startup companies in the innovation ecosystem of US agriculture, we compile a unique dataset of 6024 new entrants founded 1987–2019 that details their financing lifecycles, annual economic performance, and patenting activities.
Gregory D. Graff   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

DELIVERY OF GOOD IN THE LOAN AGREEMENT: CONDITION OF VALIDITY OR OBLIGATION OF THE LENDER? [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2011
In theory, the loan is generally defined as a contract whereby a person, called the lender, shall use or immovable property of another person, called the loan, which is obliged to repay in kind.
LIVIU STANCIULESCU
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Farm Financial Performance from Borrower and Lender Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study answers how profitability changes from a lender and borrower perspective. Using the FBFM data for periods from 1995 to 2004, we find that the variables that explain the profitability of a lender and borrower differ.
Durguner, Sena   +2 more
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A mid‐Cretaceous monocot flower from the Dakota Sandstone of Kansas and its potential implications for the fossil record of palms

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Although the megafossil flora of the upper Albian–lower Cenomanian Dakota Formation in Kansas is well known for angiosperms, monocots have not been reported previously. Methods A mesofossil flower was discovered by X‐ray analysis of a specimen collected more than a century ago from the Dakota Sandstone of central Kansas.
Bruce H. Tiffney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial stability of credit institutions in the conditions of economic recession in Russia

open access: yesУченые записки Российской академии предпринимательства, 2021
In new economic conditions financial stability of banks, both is important for the creditor and for borrowers. There are two possible directions of a solution of the problem of a non-return of debt: sale to her third parties or participation of bank in ...
I. V. Gladkov
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Investigating the Role of Microcredit on Agricultural Output in Rural-Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of the University of Craiova for Journalism, Communication and Management
Microcredit or Microfinance is being considered as one of the investment-sources for local farmers who want to cultivate their land. It is highly difficult for local-farmers to collect fund for field-level investment, these farmers select micro-credit ...
Md. Imrul Hasan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Mortgage Default Among Rural, Low-Income Borrowers" [PDF]

open access: yes
In this working paper, Quercia, McCarthy, and Stegman use data obtained on 874 low income, rural borrowers participating in the Section 502 Home Ownership program administered by the Farmer's Home Administration (FmHA), and apply two multivariate ...
George W. McCarthy   +2 more
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