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A Century of Understanding and Harnessing Heterosis

Plant Breeding, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Heterosis has shaped modern plant breeding since Darwin's 19th century observations that outcrossing restores vigour lost through selfing. While 100 years old, its mechanistic basis and deployability remain actively debated. Classical models of dominance, overdominance and epistasis provided the foundation for hybrid breeding and converted ...
Mohsen Mohammadi
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Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
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Uncovering Edtech's Embedded Values: Making the Case for Socio‐Technical Audits in Ethnographic Inquiry

Anthropology &Education Quarterly, Volume 57, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Drawing on three ethnographic studies of secondary schools in England, this article makes a case for “socio‐technical audits”—a method combining technological walkthroughs with observations, workshops, and interviews—as part of ethnographic inquiry. A case example is presented to illustrate how the integration of socio‐technical audits enables
Louise Couceiro, Rebecca Eynon, Laura Hakimi   +2 more
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Climate Change and African Agricultural Resilience: A 10‐Year Comprehensive Review of Adaptive Capacity, Policy, and Environmental Stewardship

Plant-Environment Interactions, Volume 7, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In the current era, climate change has emerged as a fundamental threat to African agriculture, driven by increasingly erratic climatic patterns such as prolonged rainfall, decadal droughts, and escalating thermal stress. This review evaluates contemporary agricultural productivity by gathering and analyzing empirical data from academic ...
Chibuzor Onyinye Okonkwo, Kahsay Tadesse Mawcha, Rumbidzai Changwa, Dennis Ndolo, Olubukola Oluranti Babalola   +4 more
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Key technology and equipment for fully mechanized mining with extra-large shearing height of 10 m in extra-thick coal seam

Meitan xuebao
Fully mechanized mining technology with extra-large shearing height is the optimal technical approach to achieve high-yield, high-efficiency and high-recovery mining for 6−10 m ultra-thick coal seam in Chinese coal mines.
Hongpu KANG, Yajun LEI, Futang ZHAO, Gang XU, Zenglin LI, Mingzhong LI, Rui WANG, Zhizeng HUANG, Jiangbin LIU, Ying MA, Cundi HAN, Yanjun FENG, Zhen ZHANG, Jinhu ZHANG, Jianchao REN, Yejie SONG, Mingsheng ZENG, Lixing CHENG   +17 more
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Control System for the Navigation of the Agricultural Robots: A Review

Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 5, Page 3474-3505, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Control systems for the navigation of autonomous agricultural robots—particularly those operating in uneven terrain and in the presence of static or dynamic obstacles—have advanced considerably in recent years. As conventional machinery evolves toward increasingly automated systems, the design of reliable navigation controllers has become ...
Edna Carolina Moriones Polanía, Hugo Rafacho Fernandes, Daniel Albiero, Angel Pontin Garcia   +3 more
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Dynamic prediction method for pressure events in spatiotemporal regions of intelligent fully-mechanized mining face

Meitan xuebao
The prediction and forecasting of cyclic roof pressure in fully-mechanized mining faces play a crucial role in preventing roof disasters and ensuring mine safety.
Xiang FU, Yifan JIA, Xiaoqiang ZHANG, Zhixing ZHANG, Ming YAN, Yan SUN, Yifan QIN, Ranfeng WANG, Zehua WANG, Leilei ZHANG   +9 more
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Hybrid sorghum breeding in China: A historical review and perspectives

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Volume 68, Issue 8, Page 2673-2686, August 2026.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the promotion and application of three‐line hybrid sorghum in China, this review highlights pivotal scientific breakthroughs, systematically summarizes the progress in hybrid sorghum breeding and dwarf sorghum breeding in the country, and presents an outlook on the future of sorghum breeding.
Xiangxiang Meng, Lu Li, Qian Qian, Liang Jiang, Zhaosheng Kong   +4 more
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Digital twin-driven integrated ground decision scheduling system for fully mechanized top-coal caving face

Gong-kuang zidonghua
To address the problems of low equipment coordination efficiency, insufficient data integration, and incomplete safety monitoring coverage in coal mine production scheduling and safety management, a digital twin-driven integrated ground decision ...
LI Haodang, BAO Xinping, LIU Qing
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Moving in Cycles: Explaining the Failure of Militarization to Address Illegal Mining in Ghana

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Mining contributes to Ghana's economic growth but also imposes significant social costs—land dispossession and unemployment—which have fueled the rise of illegal mining (galamsey). Galamsey, which intensified during the commodity boom of the 2010s, provides livelihoods while simultaneously worsening environmental degradation and social ...
Sulemana Alhassan Saaka, Phil Faanu
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