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Design‐for‐Benchmarking in Soft Robotics: Navigating Component‐System Dichotomy

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Soft robotics faces a profound evaluation challenge: the Component‐System Dichotomy, where isolated component tests fail to predict integrated performance. This article presents a systematic survey of critical reporting gaps across actuation, sensing, and control.
Matteo Lo Preti, Muhammad Sunny Nazeer, Josh Pinskier, David Howard, Cecilia Laschi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

VALIANT: A Vision‐Authenticity Language Framework Through Integrated Experts and Aligned Numerical‐Textual Descriptors for Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Visual features, numerical descriptors, and controlled textual attributes extracted from smartphone images of Chenpi are integrated by VALIANT, a tailored multimodal framework for simultaneous storage‐age classification and authenticity verification. The workflow distinguishes genuine products from suspicious standard operating procedure mimics while ...
Simon C. K. Chan, Bingxin Huang, Hannah H. Kim, Wentao Yu, Yinqian Luo, Terence T. W. Wong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redefining equality in European contract law: protecting consumer interests in a post-consumer society

European Law Open
Consumers have in law been defined as the weaker parties in a transaction. Contract laws have integrated consumer protection with a view to balancing the interests of the parties, ensuring equal bargaining power and to some extent substantive fairness in
Vanessa Mak
doaj   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Equality in Canada through the Prism of Political Party Documentation and Programs

This chapter critically examines gender equality within Canadian party politics, with a specific focus on six principal political entities: the Liberal Party of Canada, the Conservative Party of Canada, the Bloc Québécois, the New Democratic Party, the Green Party of Canada, and the People’s Party of Canada.
openaire   +2 more sources

Equality of the Parties in International Trade Agreements with Guaranteed Warehouse Receipt System Financing

, 2021
This research aims to describe and analyze Equality in international trade law with warehouse receipt system as collateral financing.The method used in this research is normative juridical.The research objective is to explore, describe, explain, and analyze Equality's effect in international trade agreements with unique financing guarantees for ...
openaire   +1 more source

The Success and the Barriers to Women's Representation in Southeast Asia Between State Policies, Political Parties and Women's Movement [PDF]

, 2014
Inisiatif Kemitraan Asia Tenggara -- United States (IKAT-US) Component 1 -- POWER, is one of Partnership's projects that supports efforts to increase women's representation in the Philippines, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Timor-Leste.
Adisti Ikayanti, Ruth Indiah Rahayu
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The Herfindahl neutral point: A firm‐level threshold for managing market concentration with evidence from US hog packing

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
wiley   +1 more source

The Characteristics and Impacts of Singapore-U.S. Relations Under Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong

IKAT The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
The relationship between Singapore and the United States under Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is marked by equality and mutual benefits, despite the imbalance of power between the small nation and the superpower. This study aims to explore the pragmatism
Hue Truong
semanticscholar   +1 more source