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Blockchain‐Empowered H‐CPS Architecture for Smart Agriculture
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This article reviews the current system architectures for smart agriculture and proposes a blockchain‐empowered hierarchical cyber‐physical system (H‐CPS) framework. It discusses the challenges and outlines future research directions, including the use of semantic blockchain to handle complex data and models.
Xiaoding Wang +8 more
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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The Main General and Special Rules Related to the Conclusion of the Insurance Contract
CECCAR Business ReviewThe Romanian Civil Code serves as the general law governing the insurance contract, therefore also for the conclusion of this type of contract. Considering, however, the particularity determined by the valences of the insurance operation, which are ...
Ioana Nely MILITARU
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This paper employs the data envelope analysis (DEA) to assess technological progress and its impact on agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) across 18 the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1973 to 2015.
Yu Sheng
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Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study aims to provide actionable recommendations for leveraging digital innovation for the achievement of scalable, equitable, and transparent Net Zero Energy Transition by offering actionable recommendations. As a result of this comprehensive analysis, the review highlights the critical interplay between digital technologies and GF as vital ...
Furkan Ahmad +3 more
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Policy Contracts in Life Insurance [PDF]
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1905 n ...
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Selection in Health Insurance Markets and Its Policy Remedies
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017 Selection (adverse or advantageous) is the central problem that inhibits the smooth, efficient functioning of competitive health insurance markets. Even—and perhaps especially—when consumers are well-informed decision makers and insurance markets are ...
M. Geruso, T. Layton
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Effect of risk and incentives on contracts: The case of farm operators in Iowa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Longitudinal data on Iowa landowner–operator contracts are used to examine how the mean, variance, and skewness of expected farmland returns affected contract terms from 2008 to 2019. To control for unobserved operator risk preferences and ability as a fixed effect, the sample includes operators with multiple contracts.
Jun Yeong Lee
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Environment International, 2022 The OECD estimates that greater work absenteeism is one of the main drivers behind the impact of air pollution on gross domestic product loss, but research linking air pollution with work absenteeism is scarce.
Luk Bruyneel +10 more
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An overview of the emergence of Takaful: An Islamic type of insurance policy
, 2013 The Islamic type of insurance policy, called Takaful, is increasingly known at present and attracts the attention of the insurance holder especially in Islamic country like Malaysia.
Suria Zainuddin, I. M. Noh
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