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Good Governance in Malawi: Impact evaluation of the ‘Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi’ project

, 2021
The EU-funded ‘Strengthening Land Governance System for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi’ project was implemented from 2015 to 2020 by a consortium made up of Oxfam in Malawi, LANDNET (until 2018) and CEPA, with technical support from
Msukwa, Chimwemwe, Colvin, John, Burt, Jane   +2 more
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DigiChrom: A Domain Ontology for Semantic Representation of Trivalent Chromium Platings and Its Large Language Model‐Based Alignment With Multiple Mid‐Level Ontologies

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Digitalizing electroplating requires both domain knowledge and interoperability. This work introduces PlatOn, a domain ontology for trivalent chromium plating and coating characterization, and a hybrid pipeline that aligns it to a mid‐level reference ontology by combining eight similarity metrics with language model reasoning. Expert‐validated mappings
Janik Harter, Elena Garcia Trelles, Christoph Schweizer, Thomas Seifert, Christoph Baumer, Mahmoud Elkady, Katja Feige, Daniel Grimme, Edgar Hoffmann, Andreas Waibel, Anke Walter   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Impact of Traditional and Biodegradable Mulch Film Residues on Heavy Metal Dynamics and Maize Productivity: Insights from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Community Analysis

Agronomy
Microplastics and heavy metals (HMs) in soil pose significant environmental and health risks, yet the interactions between mulch film residues and HMs, and their effects on maize productivity, remain poorly understood.
Qian Sun, Ting Shen, Maolu Wei, Miaomiao Xie, Ge Wang, Dongyan Liu   +5 more
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Adaptive Foam 3D Printing of Ultralight and Multifunctional Materials

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Adaptive foam 3D printing, enabled by expandable microspheres, imparts cellular structures to thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers, manufactured through a variety of processes including fused filament fabrication, direct ink writing, digital light processing, and inkjet printing.
Nariman Rajabifar, Amir Ameli
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Cleaning Sensor Surfaces for Long‐Term Environmental Monitoring

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Long‐term use of unattended outdoor sensors without soiling or biofouling is achieved through generation of a micro‐ and nanorough cuvette surface by combing hydrophobic nanoparticles with fluorinated polymers, crosslinked and surface‐attached through CHic chemistry. The coating demonstrates self‐cleaning behavior and prolonged outdoor stability, which
Sanam Kumari Rajak, Yasmina Frey, Ulrike Wallrabe, Oswald Prucker, Jürgen Rühe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physical and chemical optimisation of the seedball technology addressing pearl millet under Sahelian conditions

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2019
This study deals with the development of the seedball technology in particular for dry sowing under Sahelian conditions and pearl millet as crop. At first, our participatory evaluation in Senegal showed that (i) local materials needed for seedball ...
Charles I. Nwankwo, Jan Mühlena, Konni Biegert, Diana Butzer, Günter Neumann, Ousmane Sy, Ludger Herrmann   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Annual corporate evaluation report 2010 [PDF]

, 2010
French version available in IDRC Digital Library: Rapport annuel sur l'évaluation 2010This report presents an in-depth analysis of selected evaluation topics, and notes the importance of the IDRC’s efforts in searching for improved approaches to ...
IDRC. Evaluation Unit
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Enhancing Low‐Temperature Performance of Sodium‐Ion Batteries via Anion‐Solvent Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
DOL is introduced into electrolytes as a co‐solvent, increasing slat solubility, ion conductivity, and the de‐solvent process, and forming an anion‐rich solvent shell due to its high interaction with anion. With the above virtues, the batteries using this electrolyte exhibit excellent cycling stability at low temperatures. Abstract Sodium‐ion batteries
Cheng Zheng, Qian Yao, Yanan Sun, Hongyu Lv, Zhongchao Bai, Guoliang Zhang, Nana Wang, Jian Yang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of soil warming and altered precipitation patterns on photosynthesis, biomass production and yield of barley

Journal of Applied Botany and Food Quality, 2020
Crop productivity and plant physiology are affected by rising temperatures and altered precipitation patterns due to climate change. We studied the impacts of an increase in soil temperature of 2.5 °C, a decrease in summer precipitation amount of 25%, a ...
Ireen Drebenstedt, Iris Schmid, Christian Poll, Sven Marhan, Robert Kahle, Ellen Kandeler, Petra Högy   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

All‐in‐One Analog AI Hardware: On‐Chip Training and Inference with Conductive‐Metal‐Oxide/HfOx ReRAM Devices

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An all‐in‐one analog AI accelerator is presented, enabling on‐chip training, weight retention, and long‐term inference acceleration. It leverages a BEOL‐integrated CMO/HfOx ReRAM array with low‐voltage operation (<1.5 V), multi‐bit capability over 32 states, low programming noise (10 nS), and near‐ideal weight transfer.
Donato Francesco Falcone, Victoria Clerico, Wooseok Choi, Tommaso Stecconi, Folkert Horst, Laura Bégon‐Lours, Matteo Galetta, Antonio La Porta, Nikhil Garg, Fabien Alibart, Bert Jan Offrein, Valeria Bragaglia   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source