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Has Land Reform Improved on Landownership Inequality? Evidence from Philippine Rice-growing Villages [PDF]

open access: yes
Has land ownership distribution in the Philippines improved as a result of the land reform program instituted in the country? Not quite, this Policy Notes asserts.
Ballesteros, Marife Magno
core  

A Redesigned Benders Decomposition Approach for Large-Scale In-Transit Freight Consolidation Operations

open access: yes, 2018
The growth in online shopping and third party logistics has caused a revival of interest in finding optimal solutions to the large scale in-transit freight consolidation problem.
Abril, Luis E.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Nonlocomotory Robotic Strategies for Dynamic Rotation Control in Terrestrial Robots: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Terrestrial robots increasingly require rapid body rotation to maintain stability and agility in complex environments. This review shows nonlocomotory rotational control strategies that operate without ground contact, including reaction wheels, tails, bars, limbs, and thrusters.
Y. Liang   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of soil carbon characteristics under different planting patterns on sloping farmland in the hilly and gully region of the loess plateau

open access: yesScientific Reports
A six-year field experiment was conducted in the Loess Plateau to explore the impacts of five planting patterns, namely fallow(C0), continuous maize cropping(C1), continuous alfalfa cropping(C2), maize-sorghum-sorghum-millet (cereal) rotation(C3), and ...
Panpan Zhang, Yang Zhang, Zenghui Sun
doaj   +1 more source

MARKET-BASED LAND REFORM AND FARM EFFICIENCY IN COLOMBIA: A DEA APPROACH [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses Data Envelopment Analysis to measure scale and technical efficiencies of 925 farms in rural Colombia and a Tobit model to identify the effects of land market characteristics on efficiency.
Gonzalez, Maria A., Lopez, Rigoberto A.
core   +1 more source

The inverse relationship between farm size and productivity in rural Rwanda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The Rwandan government has recently adopted new agricultural and land policies that strive to increase productivity in the agricultural sector though land consolidation and concentration, and through the promotion of regional crop specialisation and ...
Ansoms, An   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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