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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Launching a Village to promote aging in community: human, social, and financial capital. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Greenfield EA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Estimation of Import Demand Functions of Two Key Food and Feed Commodities (Corn and Soybean) for India

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The derived demand for the increased demand for meat and dairy products is clearly observed in the fast‐paced growth of the Indian feed industry and its increased demand for agricultural commodities (e.g., corn, soybean, rice, wheat, broken rice, millet, etc.) as feed ingredients.
Dwiti Baruah Thapa, Sanjib Bhuyan, Kishor Goswami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Domestic and External Drivers of Brazilian Pork Price Volatility Under Russian Trade Policies

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how Russian trade policies and domestic factors influence the volatility of Brazilian live swine prices from 2004 to 2019. We employ a DCC‐MGARCH framework, along with volatility impulse‐response functions and the connectedness approach, to analyze time‐varying co‐movement and dynamic volatility spillovers across pork ...
Gabriel Rosero, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani, Bernhard Brümmer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modular design and supervisory control for enhanced economic resilience in continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional continuous plants use fixed‐capacity equipment, resulting in high capital risk and suboptimal performance under fluctuating demands. To address these, this study proposes an integrated framework for modular process design and supervisory control capable of adapting to demand uncertainty for long‐term economic viability.
T. Asrav, M. Alvarado‐Morales, G. Sin
wiley   +1 more source

A computational study of Ising‐based solvers for discrete landscape exploration in process optimization

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conceptual process design combines discrete configuration choices with continuous operating decisions, often yielding difficult mixed‐integer nonlinear or simulation‐based optimization problems. This work presents an exploratory computational assessment of Ising‐based solvers, simulated annealing, quantum annealing, and entropy computing, as ...
Yirang Park, David E. Bernal Neira
wiley   +1 more source

Reinforcement learning-driven optimal capital allocation for intelligent finance. [PDF]

PLoS One
Luo Y, Qi M, Cheng M.
europepmc   +1 more source

LLM‐Based Scientific Assistants for Knowledge Extraction: Which Design Choices Matter?

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
A comprehensive framework for optimizing Large Language Models in domain‐specific applications is introduced. The LLM Playground integrates Prompt Engineering, knowledge augmentation, and advanced reasoning strategies to enable systematic comparison of architectures and base models.
David Exler, Manuel Raimann, Marc Münker, Maxim Rosin, Joaquin E. Urrutia Gómez, Christof M. Niemeyer, Markus Reischl, Luca Rettenberger   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Capital Adequacy as a Driver of Profitability: Panel Evidence from Nepalese Wholesale and Retail Microfinance Institutions. [PDF]

F1000Res
Lamichhane BD, Choudhary S, Dhungana BR, Shrestha M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source