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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

From rural hollowing to smart shrinkage: zonal governance considering spatial non-stationary effects. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chen C, Wang C, Cao L, Choi CG.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Unifying Approach to Self‐Organizing Systems Interacting via Conservation Laws

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
The article develops a unified way to model and analyze self‐organizing systems whose interactions are constrained by conservation laws. It represents physical/biological/engineered networks as graphs and builds projection operators (from incidence/cycle structure) that enforce those constraints and decompose network variables into constrained versus ...
F. Barrows, G. Zhang, S. Anand, Z. Chen, J. Lin, A. Desai, S. Martiniani, F. Caravelli   +7 more
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Applying the SFIC synergistic governance model to analyze determinants of multisectoral collaborative chronic disease management in Beijing's district H. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Li J, Zhao N, Gu M, Yang J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Toward Predictable Nanomedicine: Current Forecasting Frameworks for Nanoparticle–Biology Interactions

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Predictive models successfully screen nanoparticles for toxicity and cellular uptake. Yet, complex biological dynamics and sparse, nonstandardized data limit their accuracy. The field urgently needs integrated artificial intelligence/machine learning, systems biology, and open‐access data protocols to bridge the gap between materials science and safe ...
Mariya L. Ivanova, Michael Nicholls, Nicola Russo, Gueorgui Mihaylov, Konstantin Nikolic   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital Governance at the Street Level: A Mixed-Methods Study of Systemic Resilience and 'Human-in-the-Loop' Telemedicine in Rural Thailand. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health
Tarnthong N, Chaiya C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sound‐Based Assembly of Magnetically Actuated Soft Robots Toward Enhanced Release of Extracellular Vesicles

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
Magnetic soft robots offer promise in biomedicine due to their wireless actuation and rapid response, but current fabrication methods are complex and have limited cellular compatibility. A new, contactless bioassembly strategy using hydrodynamic instabilities is introduced, enabling customizable, centimeter‐scale robots.
Wei Gao, Riccardo Tognato, Micaela Natta, Elena Della Bella, Alessandro Cianciosi, Tiziano Serra   +5 more
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Situating socio-hydrogeology: Towards a transdisciplinary understanding of groundwater monitoring practices in western India. [PDF]

Hydrogeol J
Joshi D.
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From Swarm to Individual: Emergent Individuality in Light‐Mediated Robot Collectives

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Can individuality emerge from a swarm? Using nominally homogeneous phototactic robots, we show that collective light conditions reorganize robot‐level behavioral profiles. Global illumination amplifies persistent differences in state occupancy, while robot‐mounted local light cues reduce fixed differentiation and favor transient high‐switching profiles.
John Smith, Atsushi Masumori, Norihiro Maruyama, Takahide Yoshida, Takashi Ikegami   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital village construction and the mental health of rural older adults: Evidence from China. [PDF]

Digit Health
Xing M, Han Y, Zhang H.
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