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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

Food Security Strategy, Macroeconomic Dynamics and Food Import Sensitivity in Qatar

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Qatar has limited agricultural land and water resources and therefore remains highly dependent on food imports. This structural dependency makes Qatar vulnerable to external shocks such as the recent Gulf crisis, threatening food security and disrupting global supply chains. In response to previous shocks, Qatar started implementing a National
Hansini Ranjan, Simeon Kaitibie, Alanoud Ali S. Al‐Maadid, John N. Ng'ombe, Ishrat Hossain, Mostafizur Rahman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Law & Religious Market

, 2015
This J.S.D. dissertation presents Law & Religious Market as an alternative critical perspective to examine the normative considerations that are associated with laws/policies affecting religion. The current legal discourse on religious liberty posits the
Chen, Jianlin
core   +1 more source

Institutional Transition and Performance Dynamics in a Federated Agricultural Cooperative: Longitudinal Evidence From Indonesia

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agricultural cooperatives in many developing countries have evolved under strong state involvement, resulting in changing institutional conditions and governance arrangements that may shape their organizational performance. Despite extensive research on cooperative governance and federated organizations, limited empirical evidence exists on ...
Abi Pratiwa Siregar, Cathal O'Donoghue, Becky Whay   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Biology Meets Medicine: A Perspective on Foundation Models

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence, and foundation models in particular, are transforming life sciences and medicine. This perspective reviews biological and medical foundation models across scales, highlighting key challenges in data availability, model evaluation, and architectural design.
Kunying Niu, Yuxing Wang, Limin Zou, Jing Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smart Bioinspired Material‐Based Actuators: Current Challenges and Prospects

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
This work gathers, in a review style, an extensive and comprehensive literature overview on the development of autonomous actuators based on synthetic materials, bringing together valuable knowledge from several studies. Furthermore, the article identifies the fundamental principles of actuation mechanisms and defines key parameters to address the size
Alejandro Palacios, Léon Chiriatti, Simon Poppinga, Thomas Speck, Vincent Le Houérou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Analysis of Law on Indonesia’s Capital Market Reform after P2SK

Jurnal USM Law Review
Capital market legal reform through Law Number 4 of 2023 on the Development and Strengthening of the Financial Sector (the P2SK Law) represents a comprehensive effort to address structural weaknesses in Indonesia’s financial sector.
Amerta Mardjono, Gunardi Lie
doaj   +1 more source

Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
The use of large language models (LLMs) in higher education can facilitate personalized learning experiences, advance asynchronized learning, and support instructors, students, and researchers across diverse fields. The development of regulations and guidelines that address ethical and legal issues is essential to ensure safe and responsible adaptation
Defne Yigci, Merve Eryilmaz, Ail K. Yetisen, Savas Tasoglu, Aydogan Ozcan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guest editorial: Transforming tourism: diverse perspectives to boost environmental, social and economic sustainability [PDF]

Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences
Ana Isabel Polo-Peña, Hazel Andrews, Dolores María Frías Jamilena, Adenike Adebayo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Introduction to European Union Internal Market Law

, 2017
The book is a short introduction to the EU Internal Market Law and illustrates and analyzes the evolution of the Internal Market regulation and its basic concepts and features, the free movement of goods, the free movement of persons, the free movement ...
Torino, Raffaele, Raffaele Torino, Federico Raffaele, Filippo Palmieri, Arianna Paoletti, Ilaria Ricci   +1 more
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