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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

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, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva, Angel Perni, Jesus Barreiro‐Hurle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deep Learning-Driven Pose Extraction and Spatiotemporal Refinement for Human Detection and Distance Estimation on Railway Tracks with Thermal Imaging. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Pavlović M, Ćirić I, Durrant DR, Simonović M, Kuzev M, Dimitrov L, Nikolić V.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Enhancing quasi-Monte Carlo methods via delta dimension and directional control technique

core  

Maternal Factors Modifying the Link Between Genetic Risk for Autism and Developmental Milestones

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although common genetic liability—quantified through polygenic risk scores (PRS)—accounts for substantial variance in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) liability, how prenatal environmental exposures interact with genetic predisposition to shape developmental outcomes remains poorly understood. Using the data from Autism Genetic Resource Exchange
Liliana D'Alesio, Vishani Nimish Patel, McKenna Walsh, Erick Messias, Ping‐I Lin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A smart fiber-optic towed hydrophone array for open-sea cruising observation. [PDF]

Innovation (Camb)
Li S, Chai Q, Jia M, Shen H, Zhang L, Duan W, Yin J, Zhang J.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reconsidering the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026: Mental Health Implications of a Regressive Shift. [PDF]

Ann Neurosci
Sahoo S, Kar SK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Effectiveness and implementation challenges of mobile low-dose computed tomography units for early lung cancer detection: a systematic review. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Lin X, Li Y, Wang F, Guo J, Chen Y, Arbing R, Chen WT, Huang F.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

MDF-Det: Motion-Aware Decoupling and Scene Filtering for Wide Area Small Moving Target Detection. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Li K, Zhang X, Zhang Z, Xiao H, Liu Y.
europepmc   +1 more source