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Achieving High‐Density and Stress‐Resilient Maize Breeding Via Germplasm Innovation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Global population growth and climate change have exacerbated the global food crisis. This perspective presents a conceptual framework focusing on enhancing population advantages. Several novel breeding objectives are proposed to improve density tolerance and stress resistance for yield improvement.
Xinlong Li, Yongqiang Chen, Dong Ding, Xuehai Zhang, Xuxiang Jia, Zhanhui Zhang, Yafei Wang, Weihua Li, Hui Zhang, Jihua Tang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalizing Investment Dispute Prevention: The U.S. Experience

AJIL Unbound
The steady rise of international investment arbitration in recent years suggests that many states still struggle to prevent investor grievances from becoming international investment disputes and ultimately arbitration claims.
Jeremy K. Sharpe
doaj   +1 more source

Solar‐Driven Bifunctional Adsorption‐Storage Films for Ultra‐Fast Dehumidification and Freshwater Supply in Low‐carbon Buildings

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Bifunctional adsorption‐storage films enable autonomous indoor humidity regulation and freshwater harvesting, rapidly decreasing relative humidity from 90.7% to 21.6% within one hour while producing 1.1 kg·m−2·day−1 of water, offering a passive route towards energy‐efficient humidity control and sustainable indoor environments. ABSTRACT Indoor humidity
Yuechao Chao, Junwei Liu, Zhihua Zhou, Yahui Du, Hailu Wei, Haibin Yang, Xueqing Yang, Cheng Wang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Hongzhi Cui, Jinyue Yan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographical indications, food safety, and sustainability: conflicts and synergies

Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2016
This paper examines the legal and policy relationships amongst international standards for GIs, food safety requirements, and voluntary claims related to a food’s attributes.
David Wirth
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State-controlled entities as "investors" under international investment agreements

, 2012
A review of the definition of "investor" and investor-state dispute resolution clauses in 851 international investment agreements (IIAs) reveals that, except in two cases, state-controlled entities (SCEs) (including sovereign wealth funds and state-owned
Low, Jo En
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Correcting Apparent Priming Bias Unveils Fertilizer Nitrogen‐Risk Archetypes of Surplus and Depletion Across Asian Rice Systems

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Correcting the apparent priming effect resolves systematic biases in Asian rice fertilizer nitrogen accounting. Net soil retention drops below 7%, while 48% of fertilizer escapes, inflicting US$98.53 billion in annual reactive‐nitrogen damages. High‐resolution mapping uncovers N‐risk archetypes across 42% of the rice area, delivering a spatially ...
Xiuyun Liu, Siyuan Cai, Longlong Xia, Jagdish K. Ladha, Xiaoyuan Yan, Xu Zhao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

FAIR AND EQUITABLE TREATMENT STANDARD IN NTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS

Yustisia, 2018
In the last five years, the number of investors who suit against host state in the international arbitration forum increased significantly. Almost all lawsuits used fair and equitable treatment (FET) standard which has been violated by the host state ...
Sefriani .
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Logic Functionality and Circuit Design of In2Se3‐Based Split‐Gate Ferroelectric Field‐Effect Transistor for Zero‐Trust Applications

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Van der Waals ferroelectric materials are emerging as key building blocks for future logic devices and integrated circuits. Among them, α‐In2Se3 offers a unique combination of robust room temperature ferroelectricity and semiconducting behavior.
Ankita Ram, Cédric Marchand, Shehr Bano Masood, Aymen Mahmoudi, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Bernard Doudin, Abdelkarim Ouerghi, Ian O'Connor, Alexei Gruverman, Jean‐François Dayen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investment Discrimination and the Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements

, 2010
The proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements has arguably been the main change to the international trading system since the end of the Uruguay Round in the mid- 1990s.
Baccini, Leonardo, Duer, Andreas
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source