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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li +12 more
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Social differentiation, farming systems, and agrarian change in rural Ghana
Cogent Social SciencesAgriculture is predominantly rural and dominated by smallholder farmers. However, efforts to improve smallholder agricultural production have not yielded the desired results.
Michael Pervarah
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Gonzalez Martinez and collaborators develop a strategy to formulate high performance GelMA‐based bioinks with low solids contents. The resulting bioinks enable 3D bioprinting at 37 °C of high‐fidelity structures with tunable mechanical properties that support high cell viability and function.
David A. González‐Martínez +8 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.A biocompatible sodium alginate‐based hydrogel is developed as a next‐generation submucosal lifting agent intended for EMR and ESD. The optimized formulation exhibits a composition devoid of endotoxins, high viscosity, demonstrates reliable injectability, and ensures prolonged mucosal elevation.
Iram Maqsood +9 more
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MRSA in Pigs and the Environment as a Risk for Employees in Pig-Dense Areas of Sri Lanka
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019 Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) is widely spread in intensive farming systems and considered an occupational risk for humans.
Ruwani S. Kalupahana +8 more
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Portable Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Sensor for Rapid Swab‐Based Detection of Norovirus
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This work reports a rapid, portable smartphone‐based sensor capable of detecting four norovirus genotypes from swab samples within 15 min. Sensor selectivity was validated through evaluation against four common live viruses. The swab‐based sampling process enabled simple sample preparation combined with the compact detection system, supporting use of ...
Amy Dann +13 more
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Italian Journal of Agronomy, 2016 Short food supply chains (SFSCs) have been identified as an economic opportunity for agriculture under urban pressure, as well as drivers for more sustainable farming systems.
Rosalia Filippini +3 more
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Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrocatalysis
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Lead halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as highly promising materials for solar fuel and chemical synthesis. This perspective discusses advances made in the rational photoelectrode design to improve solar‐to‐chemical conversion, product scope, and scalability.
Virgil Andrei
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Ratiometric Mycotoxin Detection in Living Plants With Dual‐Emissive Nanosensors
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A minimally invasive microneedle patch integrates carbon dot‐embedded metal–organic frameworks as nanosensors to detect a key fungal toxin in living plants. The nanosensor produces a ratiometric fluorescence signal that enables early, non‐destructive diagnosis of fungal infection before visible symptoms, offering a new biomaterials‐based strategy for ...
Yuliang Li +9 more
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New Medit, 2020 This study examines the relative technical efficiency of mixed crop-livestock farming systems and assesses their economic performance between the Upper and Delta regions of Egypt.
Osama Ahmed +2 more
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