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KDLM: Lightweight Brain Tumor Segmentation via Knowledge Distillation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A lightweight student network is designed, which is based on multiscale and multilevel feature fusion and combined with the residual channel attention mechanism to achieve efficient feature extraction and fusion with very few parameters. A dual‐teacher collaborative knowledge distillation framework is proposed.
Baotian Li +4 more
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Political Connections and Social Networks in Targeted Transfer Programmes: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia [PDF]
In many developing countries, the beneficiaries of transfer programmes are determined by community-based processes, based on some general targeting rules related to needs. This opens the door for local social and political processes to impact on who gets
Bet Caeyers, Stefan Dercon
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman +1 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar +2 more
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Social and Political Dimensions of the Eurozone Enlargement in the case of the Baltic States [PDF]
This Regional Input is a supplement to Ezoneplus Working Paper No. 13 on the Social Dimension of the Eastward Enlargement of the Eurozone. Political transition from authoritarian to democratic society has been extensive in all three Baltic States.
Allan Sikk +5 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Tax Competition, Globalization and Declining Social Protection [PDF]
Tax competition, Fiscal policy, Social protection, Political ...
Murshed, S. Mansoob
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
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Conditionality and Endogenous Policy Formation in a Political Setting [PDF]
aid conditionality, fiscal policy, political processes, endogenous policy ...
Murshed, S. Mansoob
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