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Scenarios for land use and food security at global, regional and national scales. [ID812] [PDF]
, 2019 Researchers from Cirad and Inra, with the support of a Scenario Advisory Committee, have carried out an exploratory foresight exercise on 'Land use and food security in 2050' (Agrimonde-Terra) to prepare actors for different possible futures by providing
Brunelle, Thierry +4 more
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Naval Research Logistics (NRL), EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impacts of Volume‐Based Procurement (VBP) policies on pharmaceutical supply chains, with a focus on the strategic behaviors of manufacturers. VBP aims to reduce costs and stabilize supplies by centralizing procurement through competition based on volumes and prices.
Nani Zhou, Tong Wang, Guohua Wan
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Rising temperatures and wetter conditions in the Midcontinent of North America are influencing climate responses in trees. Dendroclimatological analyses of four exotic deciduous conifer species from Secrest Arboretum, Northeast Ohio help identify past, present and future climate‐tree interactions.
Gregory Wiles +6 more
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Monetary hyperinflations and money essentiality. [PDF]
This paper aims at drawing new guidelines for investigation of monetary hyperinflation analysis. We propose a MIUF optimizing model and show that monetary hyperinflation can occur as a perfect foresight competitive equilibrium path only when money is ...
Alexandre Sokic
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Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong +13 more
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Foresight jako narzędzie polityki naukowej [PDF]
, 2016 This paper attempts to answer the following questions: (1) What are the functions of foresight in government policy? (2) What can be done to improve the effectiveness of foresight in Poland as a tool for S&T and innovation policy?
Kozłowski, Jan
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Deep Visual Foresight for Planning Robot Motion
, 2017 A key challenge in scaling up robot learning to many skills and environments is removing the need for human supervision, so that robots can collect their own data and improve their own performance without being limited by the cost of requesting human ...
Finn, Chelsea, Levine, Sergey
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The Epistemic Generativity of Using a Model of a Big Idea
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Science instruction should involve learners in generating and warranting ideas, what we call epistemic generation. In modeling instruction, epistemic generation should be achieved by coordinating a model structure with the experienced world in reciprocal directions denoted as developing models and using models. In the former, a model structure
Jonathan T. Shemwell, Daniel K. Capps
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The PRAMOS Study: PRostaglandin Analogues Monotherapy—Awareness Survey on Ocular Surface Involvement
Ophthalmology and TherapyIntroduction Even though the local tolerance of prostaglandin (PG) analogues has improved drastically since the introduction of preservative-free (PF) eye drops, prescription patterns still vary widely among practitioners and between countries and could ...
Paul Bastelica +8 more
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Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Sustainability Reports
Cadmus, 2021 Antonio Guterres warns that COVID-19 is upending our world, threatening our health, destroying livelihoods, and deepening inequality. Six action areas are described—including new ways to work together, a global new deal, new economic measures, and ...
Michael Marien
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