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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
wiley   +1 more source

Microclimates, land cover, and socioeconomic vulnerability shape Anopheles hotspots in Maryland, USA. [PDF]

Infect Dis Poverty
Ibebuchi CC, Onwah SS, Abu IO.
europepmc   +1 more source

Estimation of Import Demand Functions of Two Key Food and Feed Commodities (Corn and Soybean) for India

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The derived demand for the increased demand for meat and dairy products is clearly observed in the fast‐paced growth of the Indian feed industry and its increased demand for agricultural commodities (e.g., corn, soybean, rice, wheat, broken rice, millet, etc.) as feed ingredients.
Dwiti Baruah Thapa, Sanjib Bhuyan, Kishor Goswami   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forest Carbon Dynamics as a Constraint on Future Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Zhang W, Chen A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Crystal Structure Prediction of Inorganic Materials: A Benchmark and Modern Evaluation

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Predicting a crystal’s structure from composition alone is a long‐standing challenge in materials discovery. The CSP180 benchmark of 180 inorganic crystals evaluates thirteen crystal structure prediction algorithms requiring no density functional theory (DFT) against DFT‐based baselines across twelve metrics.
Lai Wei, Sadman Sadeed Omee, Rongzhi Dong, Nihang Fu, Yuqi Song, Edirisuriya M. Dilanga Siriwardane, Meiling Xu, Ming Hu, Chris Wolverton, Jianjun Hu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Significant Land Cover Transitions and Regional Acceleration at the Continental Scale of Africa over the Last Four Decades. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Ullah H, Kalisa W, Ali S, Kong D, Zhang J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sound‐Based Assembly of Magnetically Actuated Soft Robots Toward Enhanced Release of Extracellular Vesicles

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
Magnetic soft robots offer promise in biomedicine due to their wireless actuation and rapid response, but current fabrication methods are complex and have limited cellular compatibility. A new, contactless bioassembly strategy using hydrodynamic instabilities is introduced, enabling customizable, centimeter‐scale robots.
Wei Gao, Riccardo Tognato, Micaela Natta, Elena Della Bella, Alessandro Cianciosi, Tiziano Serra   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal land use land cover dynamics and rainfall-runoff responses in the urbanizing Gdynia, Poland. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Galata AW, Gulshad K, Szydłowski M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Stochastic Locomotion Emerging From Body–Environment Interactions in a Mexican Jumping Bean–Inspired Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Inspired by the Mexican jumping bean, this study presents a centimeter‐scale, electronics‐free robot that merges principles from both the animal and plant kingdoms. A thermo‐responsive actuator mimicking larval motion, enclosed within a uniquely shaped plant‐seed‐inspired shell, generates jumping, rolling, flipping, sliding, and climbing through ...
Ragesh Chellattoan, Alessio Mondini, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Barbara Mazzolai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land deformation analysis using SBAS-InSAR time series with land cover class-specific coherence filtering for the Mississippi River Delta. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Biswas R, Salunke R, Khan S.
europepmc   +1 more source