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A Personalized, 3D Printed Polymeric Device for the Prevention of Post‐Myocardial Infarction Cardiac Remodeling

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Myocardial infarction often leads to pathological remodelling and ventricular dilatation, key features of HFrEF. This study introduces a personalized, 3D‐printed cardiac restraint device (CARD) printed using rationally designed inks displaying the requested printability and mechanical properties.
Nicola Mansour   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Farm Size on Farmers’ Recycling of Pesticide Packaging Waste: Evidence from Rural China

open access: yesLand
Scale management has become an essential form of modern agricultural production. However, it is still unclear how farm size influences farmers’ pesticide packaging waste recycling behavior (FPPWRB).
Jingyi Ding   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do Government Payments Influence Farm Size and Survival?

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2007
Using farm-level data from the 1987, 1992, and 1997 Census of Agriculture, this study estimates what effect agricultural payments have had on the likelihood of farm business survival and on farm size.
Nigel D. Key, Michael J. Roberts
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of access to livelihood capitals on adoption of European Union (EU) approved pesticides among cocoa producing households in Osun State, Nigeria

open access: yesAgricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2021
Cocoa producing households’ access to livelihood capitals would help them to adopt EU approved pesticides successfully. However, no empirical studies have addressed these issues.
Kehinde Ayodeji Damilola   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biotechnology and Farm Size in Kenya [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
This chapter is concerned with the biotechnology applications to two important crops, potato and tea in Kenya. Potato is an important source of food for the Kenyan poor, one third of which is grown by the small holders. Kenya is the world’s fourth largest tea exporter. Tea is also the second largest foreign exchange earner for Kenya.
Mureithi LP, Makau, B. F
openaire   +1 more source

Plant‐Produced Viral Nanoparticles Decorated with Nanobodies Against HER2 Improve Retention and Recruitment of Immune Cells in Solid Tumors

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Potato virus X is a filamentous RNA plant virus that can be engineered into a molecular tool for cancer therapy. We produced genetically‐encoded virus‐derived nanoparticles decorated with nanobodies targeting cancer cell receptors, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2).
Enrique Lozano‐Sanchez   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of farm size on pesticide use: evidence from Chinese rice production

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionChina’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
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural outsourcing: A comparison between the Netherlands and Japan

open access: yesApstract: 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
doaj   +1 more source

Inert Catalytic Sites Unlocked by Micropollutants for Rapid Water Decontamination with Near‐Complete Chemical Utilization

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Micropollutants can act as molecular triggers that activate a newly designed and chemically inert Fenton‐like PKU‐24 catalyst for on‐demand singlet oxygen generation from peroxymonosulfate (PMS), enabling nearly complete peroxide utilization and selective micropollutant removal from complex real‐world wastewater.
Yu‐Hang Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The issues how to express the concentration processes in European agriculture

open access: yesActa 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
doaj   +1 more source

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