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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Arts, Culture and Californians Charting Arts Participation and Organizations in a Vast, Diverse State [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Arts and culture play a significant role in the daily lives of Californians. The state is noteworthy for the avid participation of its people, the diversity and abundance of its arts organizations and the varied regional characteristics of its arts ...
Ann Markusen   +3 more
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Context Awareness and Human–Robot Interaction Optimization for Museum Intelligent Guide Robot

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents a context‐aware human–robot interaction framework designed for intelligent museum guide robots. The system features a three‐layer architecture—perception, understanding, and behavior execution—that enables adaptive and meaningful interactions with museum visitors.
Anna Zou, Yue Meng, Shijing Tong
wiley   +1 more source

Tacit Sustainability in the Countryside: Cultural and Ecological Layers of Lithuanian Heritage Homestead

open access: yesLand
This research is an in-depth qualitative case study of a historic homestead in the town of Čekiškė, located in Lithuania, through the lens of sustainability aesthetics and cultural ecology.
Indraja Raudonikyte   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Literature as Cultural Ecology

open access: yes, 2016
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Integrating Multifunctionality of Agriculture in Regional Land Use Concepts [PDF]

open access: yes
Because of high population density in Europe agriculture cannot define its aims on its own but has to take account of quite a number of demands from different actors.
Ahrens, Heinz, Kantelhardt, Jochen
core   +1 more source

Feminist Understanding of Productivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The concept of productivity, meaning output per unit of input, is at once general and specific. Economists have used productivity as a very specific measure, denominated in dollars, which shows the output of a produced or consumed good per unit of ...
Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
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Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

PRESERVING RELIGIOUS EXPRESSIONS OF COASTAL COMMUNITY: An Ethnographic Study of Pencak Macan in Gresik

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam
This study aims to analyse the religious expressions embedded in the local culture of the Pencak Macan among the coastal community of Gresik, East Java.
Achmad Anwar Abidin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making Adaptive Resilience Real [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This publication focuses on developing understanding and debate about adaptive resilience, and increasing sectoral understanding of its importance through experimentation and sharing of best ...

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