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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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Data Elements as a Systemic Enabler of Corporate Green Innovation: A Complex Adaptive System Perspective on China’s Public Data Openness Reform

Systems
Sustainability transitions confront firms with the following informational paradox: the regulatory pressure to innovate green has intensified, yet the knowledge required to do so is dispersed across agencies, sectors, and jurisdictions that rarely speak ...
Xuexin Zhang, Lin Zhang
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Plagiarism and Plunder: Fabrication and Falsification

Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, 2010
“You, who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so, become yourself Because the past is just a good bye”1   The recent dismissal of charges of plagiarism made against no less than a Justice of the Supreme Court of the ...
Jose Florencio F. Lapeña
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Embedded Morgan Fingerprints for More Efficient Molecular Property Predictions With Machine Learning

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
High dimensionality of Morgan fingerprints causes overfitting and slow training. Embedded Morgan Fingerprint (eMFP) compresses this encoding while keeping key structural information intact. Tested on five regression models across three databases for HOMO–LUMO gap prediction, eMFP outperforms standard fingerprints, training faster on large, high ...
Emilio Nuñez‐Andrade, Isaac Vidal‐Daza, Rafael Gómez‐Bombarelli, James W. Ryan, Francisco J. Martin‐Martinez   +4 more
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The Phenomenon of Personal Data as a “Pseudo Guarantee” In Fintech: Legal or Not?

Justisi
The study aims to examine the validity of personal data as a "pseudo guarantee" in fintech lending. The focus of this problem is whether the phenomenon of using personal data as a debt guarantee is justified. The research method is normative, employing
Uswatun Hasanah, Djulaeka Djulaeka, Murni Murni, A. Zaenurrosyid   +3 more
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Archival Nothing

Current Musicology, 2018
As opposed to other realms of art, like literature or painting, a plethora of “great women singers” has existed in the Caribbean and Latin America since the recording industry began. These were marquee artists with legions of adoring fans.
Licia Fiol-Matta
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Graph Neural Network‐Based Reinforcement Learning for Decentralized Multi‐Robot Manipulation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Robot arms lifting a large object face a trade‐off: centralized controllers explode in parameters, while decentralized ones cannot coordinate. A GNN resolves this—each arm runs its own network but acts on the full team state, achieving centralized‐level coordination with decentralized execution. Trained across team sizes, a single policy scales to four‐
Tong Chen, Bo Fu, Dawn Tilbury, Kira Barton   +3 more
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Financial Crises and Financial Contagion in Japan

Russian Japanology Review
The article analyzes the features of the financial crises in Japan in the context of using theoretical and practical approaches to financial contagion. A brief overview is made with the identification of the causes, nature, and consequences in relation ...
A. O. Ovcharov
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Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Promote FDI Inflows? Evidence from India

Vikalpa, 2016
Executive Summary In view of the catalytic role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in promoting economic development, countries adopt various unilateral as well as bilateral arrangements to create a conducive environment for FDI.
Niti Bhasin, Rinku Manocha
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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