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Agriculture, 2022 The paper aims to explore the relationship between size, production orientation, and performance in the Czech agriculture and to answer the research question as to what extent a farm size and a product orientation of farm do matter in relation to its ...
Eliška Svobodová +3 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Autonomous field robots equipped with ISFET‐based sensors enable rapid, spatially resolved soil nutrient analysis directly in the field. An automated system based on the BoniRob platform is presented for standardized on‐site extraction and measurement of key macronutrients and soil pH.
Vadim Riedel +3 more
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Impact of farm size on pesticide use: evidence from Chinese rice production
Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsIntroductionChina’s position as the world’s largest consumer of chemical pesticides presents a critical challenge to the long-term sustainability of its food production systems.
Yinghui Yuan +5 more
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Agricultural outsourcing: A comparison between the Netherlands and Japan
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2008 Outsourcing may well be a tool for increasing the efficiency of Japanese agriculture. However, outsourcing is not frequently used by Japanese farmers in their day-to-day management.
Masayo Igata +2 more
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith +6 more
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Integrating Ecology and Economics in Agent‐Based Models to Support Agricultural Policy
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Agent‐based models are valuable tools for studying social‐ecological systems in agriculture. This review maps how existing agent‐based models represent the human and natural domains of agriculture, and discusses developments in economic and ecological agent‐based modeling.
Daniel Vedder +5 more
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The issues how to express the concentration processes in European agriculture
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013 The paper deals with one of the current problems of the agrarian economics and policy, and this approaches to the definition, measurement and interpretation of farm size, as one of the key indicators of evaluation the processes shaping the ...
Ivo Zdráhal, Věra Bečvářová
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Influences of large-scale farming on carbon emissions from cropping: Evidence from China
Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2023 Reducing agricultural carbon emissions is important to enable carbon emission peaking by 2030 in China. However, China's transformation towards large-scale farming brings uncertainties to carbon emission reduction.
Ya-ling LI, Fu-jin YI, Chong-jun YUAN
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Laser‐induced graphene (LIG) provides a scalable, laser‐direct‐written route to porous graphene architecture with tunable chemistry and defect density. Through heterojunction engineering, catalytic functionalization, and intrinsic self‐heating, LIG achieves highly sensitive and selective detection of NOX, NH3, H2, and humidity, supporting next ...
Md Abu Sayeed Biswas +6 more
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Farm size and growth in field crop and dairy farms in France, Hungary and Slovenia
Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2013 The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between size and farm growth. The existing theories of the association between size and farm growth give mixed results by countries and over time.
Z. Bakucs +3 more
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