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Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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What Explains Racial Differences in Farm Succession Planning? Evidence From Decomposition and Counterfactual Analysis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines racial differences in farm succession planning using survey data from Tennessee farmers. While observed differences between White and Black farmers are small, decomposition and counterfactual analyses show that structural characteristics, particularly farm size, would predict higher succession planning among White farmers ...
Abdelaziz Lawani, Anna‐Liisa Ihuhwa, Armine Poghosyan   +2 more
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Orthogonal least squares methods and their application to non-linear system identification

, 1989
Identification algorithms based on the well-known linear least squares methods ofgaussian elimination, Cholesky decomposition, classical Gram-Schmidt, modifiedGram-Schmidt, Householder transformation, Givens method, and singular valuedecomposition are ...
Luo, W., Chen, Sheng, Billings, S. A.
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Conditional diffusion-based inverse kinematics for redundant 7-DOF manipulators with differentiable refinement. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell
Hentosh L, Hladun Y, Tsmots I.
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Least-squares conditional density estimation.

Least-squares conditional density estimation.
identifier:oai:t2r2.star.titech.ac.jp ...
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Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin   +2 more
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Correction: Automated ROI detection allows rapid quantification of synaptic activity across tens of thousands of synapses in cell culture. [PDF]

Front Synaptic Neurosci
Begley JC, Prüss H, Turko P, Dean C.
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Conditional least squares polynomial approximation [PDF]

Mathematics of Computation, 1964
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