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A Comprehensive Review on Additive Manufacturing of Smart Components: Technologies, Applications, and Future Scope

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
How can additive manufacturing enable components that sense, adapt, heal, and power themselves? This review synthesizes recent advances in smart functionalities, manufacturing technologies, and intelligent design strategies, revealing a pathway toward fully integrated, autonomous, and multifunctional systems across diverse engineering sectors. Additive
Aiswarya Rony   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Mobile Payment on Household Poverty Vulnerability: A Study Based on CHFS2017 in China. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Li Y, Gong X, Zhang J, Xiang Z, Liao C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Interbody Wire for Reconfigurable Robots: Bridging Integrated Morphological Reconfiguration and Distributed Wire‐Mediated Cooperation

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
TwinX shows how a single interbody wire connecting two robots can support both integrated morphological reconfiguration and distributed wire‐mediated cooperation. When the robots dock, they reconfigure into different forms for locomotion and manipulation.
Shintaro Inoue   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technology payment cards communication with banking institutions in the field of cashless payment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aim is now used to describe the infrastructure of payment cards, ATMs, now used to describe the infrastructure of payment systems, mainly the payment cards and NFC technology and secure payment throw the internet.
Němcová, Zuzana, Dvořák, Jiří
core   +1 more source

Farm labor scarcity and its uneven impacts on crop producers in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study is the first to evaluate the impacts of farm labor scarcity on producers in the United States across different crop production systems. Between 2002 and 2017, we disentangle the effects of labor scarcity from the impacts of rising commodity demand, technological change, and supply of other inputs on labor market outcomes.
Srabashi Ray   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Card, Internet and mobile payments in Finland [PDF]

open access: yes
Retail payment methods are in a stage of rapid development. New service providers and technological developments enable new payment services through a variety of channels.
Jyrkönen, Hanna, Paunonen, Heli
core  

Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and regulation in European retail payment systems [PDF]

open access: yes
In this study, the interaction between the competition-cooperation nexus and regulation in retail payment systems is analysed by applying the main lessons from the theory of network industries.
Kari Kemppainen
core   +2 more sources

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