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Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya [PDF]

While many developing-country policymakers see heavy fertilizer subsidies as critical to raising agricultural productivity, most economists see them as distortionary, regressive, environmentally unsound, and argue that they result in politicized ...
Esther Duflo, Jonathan Robinson, Michael Kremer   +2 more
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Strengthening understanding and perceptions of mineral fertilizer use among smallholder farmers: evidence from collective trials in western Kenya

, 2010
It is widely recognized that mineral fertilizers must play an important part in improving agricultural productivity in western Kenyan farming systems.
Richards, P., Giller, Ken E., Paul Richards, Richards P, Michael Misiko, Ken E. Giller, Richards, Paul, Misiko, Michael, Giller, K.E., Misiko, M., Tittonell, Pablo, Pablo Tittonell, Tittonell, P.A., Tittonell, Pablo A., Misiko, Michael T., Giller, Kenneth E.   +15 more
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Fertilization [PDF]

Human Reproduction, 2000
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Recent Advances in Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Gas Sensors: From Sensing Mechanisms to Biomedical Applications

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, Ankan Dutta, Shuvendu Das, Abu Musa Abdullah, Wanqing Zhang, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Huanyu Cheng   +6 more
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Does Subsidizing Fertilizer Increase Yields? Evidence from Malawi

Despite their strain on government and donor budgets, fertilizer subsidies have once again become popular policy tools in several Sub-Saharan Africa countries as a potential way to increase yields in staple crops like maize.
Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob, Jayne, Thomas S., Black, J. Roy   +2 more
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Soil fertility, fertilizer, and the maize green revolution in East Africa [PDF]

This paper investigates the reasons for the low application of external fertilizers on farms in Kenya and Uganda. The analysis uses a large panel of household data with rich soil fertility data at the plot level.
Yamano, Takashi, Matsumoto, Tomoya
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Applying an appropriate rate of rice husk biochar improves the microbial community structure of rhizosphere soil in continuously cropped sesame

Scientific Reports
Although biochar can mitigate the incidence of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) bacterial wilt under continuous cropping conditions, the underlying soil micro-ecological mechanisms remain unclear. Therefore, this study evaluated the diversity and structure of
Ruiqing Wang, Fengjuan Lyu, Rujie Lyu, Junhai He, Lingen Wei   +4 more
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Targeting Supramolecular Active Complexes of Nav1.7/Nav1.8 to Relieve Chronic Neuropathic Pain

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In mice and patients with severe chronic neuropathic pain (NP), Nav1.7, Nav1.8, TrkB, and five cytoskeletal proteins form supramolecular active complexes (SMACs) with polygonal lattice structures as noxious signal amplifiers in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons.
Liting Sun, Hang Xian, Yunxin Shi, Taotan Yang, Hongyan Shuai, Wenchao Hu, Siying Fei, Miao Xu, Taoyuan Yang, Ruilong Xia, Ting Wen, Fengting Zhu, Yan Fu, Yang Li, Wei Xia, Ran Qian, Yuanying Liu, Zhicheng Tian, Lamei Li, Qian Zhou, Lize Xiong, Rui Cong, Ceng Luo, Shengxi Wu, Xiafeng Shen, Xin Yu, Rou‐Gang Xie, Changgeng Peng   +27 more
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Determining the Cost-Effective Methods for Heat Exchanger Maintenance Using Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) Ask ChatGPT

Platform, a Journal of Engineering
This study discusses the application of extreme value analysis (EVA) to evaluate the remaining lifespan of four integral heat exchangers (HEX) at a chemical process plant.
Anne Ting Ai Nee, Ainul Akmar Mokhtar, Noor Hazliza A Latip, Farah Nur Faizul, Nurul Hazwani Azmi   +4 more
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MFPD: A Multiple Fungal Pathogen Detection Pipeline Across Diverse Habitats

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The MFPD pipeline integrates a comprehensive ITS reference database of fungal pathogens, optimized parameters, and algorithms tailored for both full‐length and subregion sequences that balance accuracy and computational efficiency; it enables high‐throughput, species‐level identification from amplicon sequencing data, supporting large‐scale ...
Yi Shen, Xinrun Yang, Jiabao Yu, Yaozhong Zhang, Tianjie Yang, Yang Gao, Xiaofang Wang, Alexandre Jousset, Waseem Raza, Fang‐Jie Zhao, Qirong Shen, Gaofei Jiang, Zhong Wei, Yangchun Xu   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source