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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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Two Decades of Land Subsidence in Tianjin, China, Measured with Multi-Temporal InSAR Observations

Sensors
Land subsidence poses a persistent challenge to Tianjin, a major coastal city in China, with implications for urban infrastructure and sustainable development.
Haolin Zhao, Hongyue Zhou, Dashan Zhou, Chaoying Zhao   +3 more
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When the River Runs Low: Heterogeneous Impacts of Transportation Disruptions on Local Grain Basis

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A substantial share of U.S. soybean and corn exports from the Midwest moves by barge along the Mississippi River system to export terminals in the Louisiana Gulf. Transportation costs between Midwestern grain elevators and export terminals create a wedge between prices at these locations, and shocks to these costs are partially passed on to ...
Yuan Zhang, Andrew E. Anderson, Nicholas J. Pates, Eunchun Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human‐in‐the‐Loop Swarms: A Bionic Swarm Approach to Real‐World Soil Mapping

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This article introduces the “Bionic Swarm,” a novel system that lowers the barriers to real‐world swarm validation by abstracting difficult hardware tasks to app‐guided human agents. We demonstrate the system's utility through the experimental validation of a geotechnical soil‐mapping swarm algorithm and show superior performance to baseline approaches
Petras Swissler, Mohammadali Rashidioun, Nicholas Sahu, Raaid Kabir, Ayodeji Aderibigbe, Oladoyin Kolawole   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonlinear Heat Effects of Building Material Stock in Chinese Megacities

Smart Cities
Urbanization is accompanied by an increased use of building materials. However, the lack of high-resolution building material stock (BMS) maps limits our understanding of the relationship between BMS and urban heat.
Leizhen Liu, Yi Zhou, Liqing Tan, Rukun Jiang   +3 more
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Comparative Assessment of Three Nonlinear Approaches for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in a Coal Mine Area

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017
Landslide susceptibility mapping is the first and most important step involved in landslide hazard assessment. The purpose of the present study is to compare three nonlinear approaches for landslide susceptibility mapping and test whether coal mining has
Qiaomei Su, Jin Zhang, Shangmin Zhao, Li Wang, Jin Liu, Jianli Guo   +5 more
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Cteno‐Bot: An Untethered Metachronally Swimming Robot With Magnetoactive Propulsors

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
We present Cteno‐bot, an untethered ctenophore‐inspired robot which swims using metachronally coordinated appendages. A single mechanism controls up to 216 magnetoactive propulsors via a dynamically varying magnetic field. We show that the swimming speed of the robot can be increased without a corresponding increase in power requirement, simply by ...
David J. Peterman, Margaret L. Byron
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LENet: A Semantic Segmentation Network for Complex Landforms in Remote Sensing Imagery via Axial Semantic Modeling and Deformation-Aware Compensation

Remote Sensing
Accurate semantic segmentation of complex landforms in remote sensing imagery is hindered by pronounced intra-class heterogeneity, blurred boundaries, and irregular geomorphic structures. To overcome these challenges, this study presents LENet (Landforms
Yaning Liu, Jing Ren, Jiakun Wang, Shaoda Li, Rui Chen, Dongsheng Zhong, Wei Zhao, Aiping Yang, Ronghao Yang   +8 more
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Bedrock Geologic Map of Maine and Surficial Geologic Map of Maine

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1986
For the tectonic, structural, or surficial geologist, a geologic map is the ultimate document, encompassing within its bounds a concise display of the current status of geologic information for the region that it embraces. Because the state of Maine, areally, is half of the New England region, the new bedrock and surficial maps of that state, produced ...
openaire   +1 more source

Crop insurance and irrigation behavior: The conditional role of pumping costs

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Excessive water use for irrigation can accelerate the depletion of water resources, undermining agriculture's resilience to weather‐related shocks. Understanding how farmers make water use decisions is essential for developing effective water management policies.
Sungmin Cheu, Molly Sears
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