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ChicGrasp: Imitation‐Learning‐Based Customized Dual‐Jaw Gripper Control for Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular Bio‐Products

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Automated poultry processing lines still rely on humans to lift slippery, easily bruised carcasses onto a shackle conveyor. Deformability, anatomical variance, and hygiene rules make conventional suction and scripted motions unreliable. We present ChicGrasp, an end‐to‐end hardware‐software co‐designed imitation learning framework, to offer a ...
Amirreza Davar, Zhengtong Xu, Siavash Mahmoudi, Pouya Sohrabipour, Chaitanya Pallerla, Yu She, Wan Shou, Philip Glen Crandall, Dongyi Wang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Malawi Agriculture and Food Security Policy Processes Endline Survey, 2017/18 [PDF]

Several initiatives in Malawi have sought to strengthen the processes through which the design and content of policies, strategies, and programs in the agriculture sector that affect the nation’s food security are established.
International Food Policy Research Institute
core   +4 more sources

India’s national maternity benefit cash transfer program and child anthropometry

Scientific Reports
This study evaluates the impact of India’s Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY), the world’s largest rights-based conditional cash transfer (CCT) program targeting women during their first pregnancy.
Soumyajit Ray, Phuong Hong Nguyen, Sumantra Pal, Samuel Scott, Purnima Menon, Suman Chakrabarti   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

MicroRoboScope: A Portable and Integrated Mechatronic Platform for Magnetic and Acoustic Microrobotic Experimentation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents the MicroRoboScope, a highly integrated, compact, and portable microrobotic experimentation platform combining electromagnetic and acoustic actuation with real‐time visual feedback into a single, end‐to‐end device. The system enables closed‐loop control and tracking algorithm experimentation within an accessible and unified hardware ...
Max Sokolich, Yanda Yang, Subrahmanyam Cherukumilli, Fatma Ceren Kirmizitas, Sambeeta Das   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart food policy for healthy food labeling: leading with taste, not healthiness, to shift consumption and enjoyment of healthy foods

Preventive Medicine, 2018
Smart food policy models for improving dietary intake recommend tailoring interventions to people’s food preferences. Yet, despite people citing tastiness as their leading concern when making food choices, healthy food labels overwhelmingly emphasize ...
Bradley P. Turnwald, Alia J. Crum
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Fatty Acid Quality in Sunflower and Frying Oils: Implications for Nutritional Health

Journal of Food Quality
The demand for vegetable oils among consumers has risen over the past few years. This study aimed to assess the fatty acid profile of popular vegetable oils to identify strategies from a public health perspective.
Fatemeh Mohammadi-Nasrabadi, Barbod Alhouei, Khadijeh Khoshtinat, Azadeh Rashidimehr, Fatemeh Esfarjani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gender and Sustainable Forest Management in East Africa and Latin America

Ecology and Society, 2011
This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia, and Mexico. It focuses on one question: Do varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups ...
Esther Mwangi, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Yan Sun   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stunting, food security, markets and food policy in Rwanda

BMC Public Health, 2019
BackgroundOver the past two decades, Rwanda has experienced impressive economic growth, resulting in considerable improvements in living standards and poverty reduction. Despite these gains, progress on reducing the level of stunting in smallholder rural
D. Weatherspoon, Steven R. Miller, J. Ngabitsinze, L. Weatherspoon, J. Oehmke   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali, Abdurrahim Yilmaz, Meysam Keshavarz, Jinshi Zhao, Ara Darzi, Eric Yeatman, Burak Temelkuran   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source