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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
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad +5 more
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TRENDS OF EMPLOYMENT IN INFORMAL SECTOR IN ROMANIA DURING CRISIS;ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS [PDF]
The present paper emphasizes the size and trend of employment in the informal sector as affected during the recent years by the crisis and by showing the relation with informal economy. The paper is structured on three parts.
Vasile Valentina, Pisica Silvia
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Informal Employment and Inequality: Implications for Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary JournalA sizable level of informal employment, often stemming from social disparities and limited economic opportunities, can have great implications for migration in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Rashidat Akande +3 more
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An Integrated Fabric‐Pneumatic Soft Sensing System for Multi‐Site Muscle Activity Decoding
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Fabric‐pneumatic chambers convert muscle deformation into pressure signals without electronics at the body‐contact sensing interface. A unified processing pipeline enables static posture classification, continuous elbow‐angle estimation, forearm gesture recognition, and knee‐movement detection across three anatomical sites.
Qifeng Xun +3 more
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Returns to Qualification in Informal Employment: A Study of Urban Youth in Egypt [PDF]
Informal employment is a reality for roughly two-thirds of economically active youth in urban Egypt, and it has been argued to be correlated with poverty, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement.
Frost, Jon
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThis paper sheds light on the internal heterogeneity within the informal economy by examining the working conditions of migrant informal workers in China.
Gengzhi Huang +3 more
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Informal employment in Poland: an empirical spatial analysis
, 2018 The main goal of our article is to bridge the gap in the regional analysis of informal employment in Poland and in particular to indicate the propensity for informal work in the working-age population, to test if informal activities are typical for ...
M. Berȩsewicz, D. Nikulin
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Objectives and Key Results–Driven Multiagent Framework for Mechanical Design and Simulation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Objectives and key results (OKR)‐agent, an OKR‐driven multiagent framework, turns a plain‐language engineering goal into completed mechanical simulations. Three peer agents—supervisor, modeler, and simulator—share a compact board of OKR and coordinate external molecular dynamics (MD) and finite‐element solvers through a standardized tool interface. The
Jie Tian +10 more
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Decent Work and the Informal Economy [PDF]
employment, governance, ILO, indicators, informal sector, representation, rights, social ...
Trebilcock, Anne
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