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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Fabrication shapes soft robot performance, but benchmarking data and selection guidelines remain scarce. We fabricate silicone actuators using two molding techniques and three mold types, characterizing them with cycle testing, microscopy, profilometry, and 3D imaging. Applying our lab‐scale, soft robotics‐specific fabrication evaluation criteria shows
Charlotte M. Folinus +3 more
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, 2006 PUT THE TIME PERIOD COVERED HERE... e.g. January-December 2003; application/pdf; Annual cumulation of 2006 issuesKansas Receives $25.8 Million for Affordable Rental Housing Properties -- New Energy Efficiency Program to Help Kansans Reduce Fuel Costs -- $
Kansas Housing Resources Corporation.
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang +3 more
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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich +4 more
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Demographic Trends and Evolving Housing Needs in Latvia: Implications for Social Housing Policy
Baltic Journal of Real Estate Economics and Construction ManagementThis article examines demographic shifts and changing housing needs in Latvia, with a focus on their implications for social housing policy. Latvia faces significant demographic challenges, including population decline, rapid ageing, and changing ...
Sanchaniya Rashmi Jaymin +3 more
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou +3 more
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Housing policy predictions and radical solutions
, 2017 In this piece, Duncan Bowie, author of Radical solutions to the housing supply crisis looks at what housing policies may be included in the party manifestos and explains the radical solutions we need.
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
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Farm labor scarcity and its uneven impacts on crop producers in the United States
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This study is the first to evaluate the impacts of farm labor scarcity on producers in the United States across different crop production systems. Between 2002 and 2017, we disentangle the effects of labor scarcity from the impacts of rising commodity demand, technological change, and supply of other inputs on labor market outcomes.
Srabashi Ray +4 more
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, 2005 Government housing assistance is provided to achieve various outcomes, including greater affordability. The shelter outcomes of assistance packages have been well documented by Australian policy makers and researchers. However, beyond the shelter impacts,
Hafekost, Ian P. +4 more
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