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Extension Economists: Valued in Mission, Penalized in Practice
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As the public engagement arm of the land‐grant mission, we argue that Extension faculty in US agricultural economics departments face an identity crossroads as they struggle for institutional support. Specifically, we argue that Extension economists function as boundary‐spanning professionals within academic structures that often devalue ...
Trey Malone +5 more
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Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy
Aestimatio, 2015 J. Z. Buchwald (book author) +2 more
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The Geography of Success: A Spatial Analysis of Export Intensity in the Italian Wine Industry
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the paradox of how Italy's fragmented, SME‐dominated wine industry achieves global export success. Moving beyond purely firm‐centric explanations, we test whether export intensity is spatially dependent, clustering geographically in regional ecosystems.
Nicolas Depetris Chauvin, Jonas Di Vita
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The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain
HoSTThis essay explores the tension that existed between empiricism and the metaphysical underpinnings of Aristotelian natural philosophy in Spain during the sixteenth century. This tension was most apparent in the range of science practitioners described in
Portuondo María M.
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William Whewell, natural theology and the philosophy of science in mid nineteenth century Britain
, 1979 This article aims to reveal the moral and theological dimensions of William Whewell’s philosophy of science. It suggests that, in addition to an internalist account of Whewell’s method and epistemology, there is a need to view his philosophy of science ...
Yeo, R, Richard Yeo
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In emerging economies where smallholder farming dominates agricultural production, agribusinesses serve as critical intermediaries linking smallholders to broader markets, and their resilience directly affects agricultural sustainability. Short‐term‐oriented capital is reluctant to adequately finance highly uncertain and cyclical agricultural ...
Siyuan Lyu +5 more
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Predictive models successfully screen nanoparticles for toxicity and cellular uptake. Yet, complex biological dynamics and sparse, nonstandardized data limit their accuracy. The field urgently needs integrated artificial intelligence/machine learning, systems biology, and open‐access data protocols to bridge the gap between materials science and safe ...
Mariya L. Ivanova +4 more
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The Collective Power of Bacteria as a Blueprint for Emergent Intelligence
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Small cells, powerful collectives. Bacteria demonstrate how sophisticated behaviors can emerge from many simple individuals working together. We explore the remarkable world of bacterial communities and the mechanisms that underpin their complex emergent behaviors, enabling impressive adaptability, robustness, and responsiveness to changing ...
Johanna A. Blee +2 more
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Curiosity and Artifice in Juan Eusebio Nieremberg’s Natural Philosophy
HumanitiesI examine the strategies through which Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, a professor at Madrid’s Jesuit Reales Estudios, promoted the role of curiosity in natural philosophy.
Javier Patiño Loira
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Complementarism and Consolationism: Mapping out a 21st-Century African Philosophical Trajectory [PDF]
, 2019 African philosophy has been compelled to constantly define itself in relation to a domineering Western philosophy given the historical circumstances of colonialism and the dual heritage of the professional African philosopher who is at once an African by
Ada Agada; Research Fellow The Conversational School of Philosophy Nigeria
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