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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of Fuzzy Association Rules by Fuzzy Transforms

Advances in Fuzzy Systems, 2012
We present a new method based on the use of fuzzy transforms for detecting coarse-grained association rules in the datasets. The fuzzy association rules are represented in the form of linguistic expressions and we introduce a pre-processing phase to ...
Ferdinando Di Martino, Salvatore Sessa
doaj   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying Consumer Tradeoffs Across Firm‐Level Strategic Positioning Dimensions: Evidence from US Craft Beer Consumers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategic positioning becomes increasingly important as markets mature, particularly in consumer‐facing industries that offer similar products, experiential cues, and values‐based messages. This study offers a conceptual model to examine the strategic positioning factors that motivate consumers to visit one local business over another before ...
Aaron J. Staples, Trey Malone, J. Robert Sirrine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An efficient local stereo matching method based on an adaptive exponentially weighted moving average filter in SLIC space

IET Image Processing, 2021
Rapidly obtaining accurate dense disparity maps has been the focus of stereo matching research. At present, approaches that achieve superior disparity maps require a large amount of computation, which is not suitable for practical applications.
Shan Yang, Xinyue Lei, Zhenfeng Liu, Guorong Sui   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Using photovoice to understand community perceptions of firearm risks and protective factors among Asian Americans

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study used photovoice methodology to explore Asian Americans' perspectives on the root causes and protective factors of firearm violence in their communities. Photovoice provided a participatory platform for community members to document lived experiences and identify priorities for change.
Tsu‐Yin Wu, Szu‐Hsien Chen, Xining Yang, Ken Resnicow, Hsing‐Fang Hsieh   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Cascade Object Detection Accuracy Using Correctors Based on High-Dimensional Feature Separation

Technologies
This study addresses the problem of correcting systematic errors in classical cascade object detectors under severe data scarcity and distribution shift.
Andrey V. Kovalchuk, Andrey A. Lebedev, Olga V. Shemagina, Irina V. Nuidel, Vladimir G. Yakhno, Sergey V. Stasenko   +5 more
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DTCTH: a discriminative local pattern descriptor for image classification

EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2017
Despite lots of effort being exerted in designing feature descriptors, it is still challenging to find generalized feature descriptors, with acceptable discrimination ability, which are able to capture prominent features in various image processing ...
Md. Mostafijur Rahman, Shanto Rahman, Rayhanur Rahman, B. M. Mainul Hossain, Mohammad Shoyaib   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source