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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Driving Laboratory Optimizes the Lower Critical Solution Temperature of Thermoresponsive Polymers

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
A low‐cost, self‐driving laboratory is developed to democratize autonomous materials discovery. Using this "frugal twin" hardware architecture with Bayesian optimization, the platform rapidly converges to target lower critical solution temperature (LCST) values while self‐correcting from off‐target experiments, demonstrating an accessible route to data‐
Guoyue Xu, Renzheng Zhang, Tengfei Luo
wiley   +1 more source

Speech-in-speech perception and executive function involvement. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
This present study investigated the link between speech-in-speech perception capacities and four executive function components: response suppression, inhibitory control, switching and working memory. We constructed a cross-modal semantic priming paradigm
Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, Maxime Tassin, Fanny Meunier   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From Instruction to Inheritance: Scaling Robot Learning Through Knowledge Circulation

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Robot learning moves from one‐way instruction toward knowledge circulation. Humans teach robots, robots teach one another, and robots share acquired skills with humans. This perspective connects teaching, embodiment, and learning architectures to explore how knowledge is inherited, adapted, and enriched across agents, opening a path toward scalable ...
Kento Kawaharazuka, Shunki Itadera, Kohei Honda, Takato Horii, Asako Kanezaki, Taisuke Kobayashi, Kenji Koide, Shuhei Kurita, Koshi Makihara, Kazuki Miyazawa, Masaki Murooka, Yuki Onishi, Satoshi Yagi, Satoshi Yamamori   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional Representation in the EU Multilevel Polity: The Role of Congruence in Vote‐Switching

Politics and Governance
Though many Europeans change party choice between national and European Parliament elections, the representational logic underlying this behaviour remains poorly understood.
Roula Nezi, Zoe Lefkofridi
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AI Dependence as a Longitudinal Governance Problem

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence governance typically focuses on whether people rely on AI appropriately during individual decisions. This Perspective addresses a different question: whether repeated AI use changes the capabilities and alternatives available to users and organisations over time.
Yiran Du
wiley   +1 more source

The Herfindahl neutral point: A firm‐level threshold for managing market concentration with evidence from US hog packing

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper derives a firm‐level threshold, the Herfindahl Neutral Point, from the standard concentration index used in merger review. At this threshold, a marginal expansion leaves the index unchanged. Firms below the threshold reduce concentration when they expand; firms above it increase concentration.
Andrew J. Keller, Krishna P. Paudel
wiley   +1 more source

Preferential trading in agriculture: New insights from a structural gravity analysis and machine learning

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) contain various non‐tariff provisions, yet identifying their trade effects remains challenging because these commitments are high‐dimensional and strongly correlated within agreements. We estimated a theory‐consistent structural gravity model with domestic flows for 26 agricultural subsectors over 1988–2017
Dongin Kim, Sandro Steinbach
wiley   +1 more source

Din scârbă și infodemie: Alianța pentru Unirea Românilor [PDF]

Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2020
The ascent of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party is a populist phenomenon that occurred in the circumstances generated by the COVID-19 medical crisis.
Sorin BOCANCEA
doaj  

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

American 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, Francisca N. Muteti, Annemie Maertens, Michael Ndegwa, Hope Michelson, Mercy Mbugua, Jason Donovan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source