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Agroforestry Policy Review [PDF]
, 2010 A lack of policy support is seen as one of the main barriers to wider adoption of agroforestry, with the integration of trees at a low density into agricultural land challenging the conventional specialisation of forestry and agricultural policy ...
Smith, Jo
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Fiber energy harvesters offer unprecedented flexibility and a unique capacity for integration into commercial textiles, overcoming the limitations of bulky and rigid conventional devices. This review summarizes recent advances in fiber‐based energy harvesting and provides strategic outlooks to accelerate technological progress in the field. ABSTRACT As
Hanhwi Jang +8 more
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CITASThe Soku Gas Plant and associated oil facilities in South-south Nigeria has been a source of continuous discharge of oil spills and other industrial wastes to the ecosystems surrounding it.
Ifeanyichukwu Clinton Ezekwe +3 more
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Spatial Efficiency Analysis of Arable Crops in Greece [PDF]
This paper aims at the analysis of determinants of efficiency of arable crops in a spatial context in Greece. Moreover it suggests policy interventions in order to diminish regional inequalities in efficiency and to raise the average level of efficiency,
Anastassios Karaganis +1 more
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Study on the Functioning of Land Markets in the EU Member states under the Influence of Measures applied under the Common Agricultural Policy [PDF]
, 2008 End of project reportStudy on the Functioning of Land Markets in the EU Member states under the Influence of Measures applied under the Common Agricultural ...
Donnellan, Trevor +2 more
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag +3 more
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CAP-reform and the provision of non-commodity outputs in Brandenburg [PDF]
This paper presents an attempt to model the response of selected farms to decoupled direct payments and the associated impact on the provision of a defined set of non-commodity outputs (NCO’s) using a combined modelling approach consisting of the ...
Damgaard, Martin +7 more
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Romania's EU accession negotiations: the significance of the EU budget [PDF]
, 2005 Romania completed its negotiations for accession to the European Union, as scheduled, by the end of 2004. The experience of the negotiations over the 2004 enlargement confirmed that the EU budget is an absolutely key issue in such talks.
Ackrill, RW
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The Uppsala APP Mutation Promotes Wild‐Type Amyloid‐β Aggregation and Deposition In Vivo
Advanced Science, EarlyView.We investigated in vivo cross‐seeding of amyloid‐β (Aβ) isoforms in transgenic mice co‐expressing wild‐typeAβ and the Uppsala‐mutant Aβ variant (AβUpp), lacking six central residues. Weleveraged MALDI‐MS imaging and hyperspectral microscopy to follow spatio‐temporalAβ deposition.
Junyue Ge +14 more
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PRESSURE FACTORS AFFECTING LOMBARDY AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE FISCHLER REFORM [PDF]
This paper presents a regional model, based on Positive Mathematical Programming, which aims to evaluate the consequences of Fischler reform on the agricultural sector of the Lombardy irrigated lowland (Northern Italy).
Bulgheroni, Claudia, Sali, Guido
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