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Impact of subsidized inorganic fertilizers on farm input usage and food self-sufficiency in Terai, Nepal

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Food Research
Nepal faces the challenge of a growing population and diminishing cultivable land, necessitating enhanced agricultural productivity to ensure year-round food availability. Despite this urgency, farm input use remains low.
Kamal Bahadur Sunar, Niraj Prakash Joshi
doaj   +1 more source

POLICY REFORM AND PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE IN CHINESE AGRICULTURE: A DISTANCE FUNCTION APPROACH [PDF]

open access: yes
Agricultural policy reform has been an important source of change in the Chinese agricultural sector. The reforms led to productivity growth and helped China in pursuing its self- sufficiency goal especially in the grain sector.
Brummer, Bernhard   +2 more
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Recapitulating Endochondral Ossification for Bone Repair: From Development to Engineering Strategy

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the developmental basis of endochondral ossification (ECO) and its applications in bone tissue engineering (BTE). It first outlines the key biological processes and signaling pathways underlying ECO, then discusses biomaterial‐based engineering strategies derived from these principles, and finally highlights future directions for
Yiqi Su   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simulation of regional green development policies under the nexus of water-energy-food-ecology: A case study of the Yangtze River economic Belt

open access: yesEcological Indicators
Green development, as a development strategy in China, imposes higher demands on the water-energy-food-ecosystem (WEFE) nexus. To alleviate resource and ecological pressures, this study constructs a complex mega-system that focuses on water, energy, food,
Liming Liu, Chunbao Wang, Junfei Chen
doaj   +1 more source

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Illinois [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
An introduction to the Self-Sufficiency standard and how it differs from the federal poverty ...
Diana M. Pearce, Jennifer Brooks
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Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Problem in Japan: Reasons of Appearance and the Ways of Solving [PDF]

open access: yes
The article discloses the peculiarities of solving food problem in Japan. The problem of food self-sufficiency in this country is very important as the coefficient of food self-sufficiency which reflects the share of domestic products is decreasing.
Stezhko, Nadia Volodymyrivna
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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