MetaFruit Meets Foundation Models: Leveraging a Comprehensive Multi-Fruit Dataset for Advancing Agricultural Foundation Models [PDF]
arXivFruit harvesting poses a significant labor and financial burden for the industry, highlighting the critical need for advancements in robotic harvesting solutions. Machine vision-based fruit detection has been recognized as a crucial component for robust identification of fruits to guide robotic manipulation.
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SNAP online purchasing and the healthfulness of food purchases
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates the effects of the SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot expansion (SNAP OPP) on SNAP households' online grocery shopping behaviors and the healthfulness of their food‐at‐home purchases. We explore quasi‐experimental estimates of the impact of online purchasing by leveraging a unique natural experiment: the staggered ...
I‐Hung Kuan +3 more
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FruitPAL: An IoT-Enabled Framework for Automatic Monitoring of Fruit Consumption in Smart Healthcare [PDF]
arXivFruits are rich sources of essential vitamins and nutrients that are vital for human health. This study introduces two fully automated devices, FruitPAL and its updated version, FruitPAL 2.0, which aim to promote safe fruit consumption while reducing health risks.
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Fruit length in a naturally-pollinated Yucca glauca population
, 2018 Shivani Jadeja, Brigitte Tenhumberg
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A two‐stage analysis for the role of fiber size in terms of length distribution on the performance under accelerated weathering tests of oil palm empty fruit bunch fiber‐reinforced vinyl acrylic composites [PDF]
, 2023 Alex Darío Aguilar +5 more
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.Integrated production of pigments, fermentation sugars, and pure lignin has been investigated for the creation of profitable biorefinery developments. Choline chloride‐based natural deep eutectic solvents possess unique solvent capabilities to interact with plant cell wall components to disintegrate lignin‐carbohydrate complex.
Tirath Raj, Vijay Singh
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Food and Environment Safety, 2019 This study described some biochemical and pomological parameters of fruits in 4 commercial medlar cultivars (‘Domestic medlar’, ‘Plovdivska’; ‘Royal medlar’; ‘Rasna’) grown in ecological conditions of BijeloPolje (Montenegro) in the period from 2010 to ...
Gordana ŠEBEK +2 more
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Fast Heuristic Scheduling and Trajectory Planning for Robotic Fruit Harvesters with Multiple Cartesian Arms [PDF]
arXivThis work proposes a fast heuristic algorithm for the coupled scheduling and trajectory planning of multiple Cartesian robotic arms harvesting fruits. Our method partitions the workspace, assigns fruit-picking sequences to arms, determines tight and feasible fruit-picking schedules and vehicle travel speed, and generates smooth, collision-free arm ...
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Product differentiation in the fruit industry: Lessons from trademarked apples
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract We derive price premiums for patented or trademarked apple varieties, also known as “club apples,” compared to open‐variety apples. We use an expansive retail scanner dataset, along with unique data on apple taste characteristics, to estimate monthly club apple premiums for 2008–2018.
Modhurima Dey Amin +3 more
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