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Climate‐Smart Dairy Practices: The Role of Practice Clusters in Enhancing the Performance of Dairy Farms in Kenya

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protection for whom? creditor conflicts in bankruptcy [PDF]

open access: yes
Revised. In this article we provide a rationale for bankruptcy law that is based on the conflicts among creditors that occur when a debtor’s liabilities exceed its assets.
Stanley D. Longhofer, Stephen R. Peters
core  

Comparing exergy and heat pump work in distillation systems

open access: yesAIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study compares the exergy supplied to a distillation column with the actual energy consumption of a heat pump‐assisted distillation (HPAD) system. It evaluates the reliability of exergy as a proxy for heat pump work demand in such systems.
Akash Sanjay Nogaja   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Informal creditors and sovereign debt restructuring. [PDF]

open access: yesIndian Econ Rev, 2023
Ghosal S, Thomas D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Creditor Protection and Financial Cycles [PDF]

open access: yes
We develop a model in which the elasticity of credit to exogenous shocks depends on creditor rights regulations. We show that an increase in creditor protection reduces the elasticity of credit supply to exogenous shocks, and hence the amplitude of the ...
Alejandro Micco, Arturo Galindo
core  

Joint Situational Assessment‐Hierarchical Decision‐Making Framework for Maneuver Intent Decisions

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study introduces a new framework for decision‐making in unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs), integrating graph convolutional networks and hierarchical reinforcement learning (HRL). The method tackles adopts a curriculum‐based training approach guided by cross‐entropy rewards.
Ruihai Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligences: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity's Future

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Many discussions of artificial intelligence fail to address deeper questions being raised by advances in developmental biology, neuroscience, bioengineering, and philosophy of mind. Novel beings, including technologically and biologically augmented humans, engineered life forms, hybrots, and others, require tools of the emerging field of diverse ...
Michael Levin
wiley   +1 more source

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