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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Stall Margin Improvement of an Axial Flow Fan with End Wall Injection and Suction.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series B, 1999
The experimental studies are conducted to reveal the mechanism of stall margin improvement of an axial flow fan by injection or suction from the end wall. In case of injection, the largest improvement is obtained by the injection at about 0.14∼0.21 times axial chord length downstream from leading edge.
Kiyoshi NISHIOKA, Hiromoto KURODA, Shigeo OBATA, Osamu CHIMURA   +3 more
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stall margin improvement in a low-speed axial compressor rotor using a blockage-optimised single circumferential casing groove

Proceedings of Global Power & Propulsion Society, 2020
The stall margin of tip-critical axial compressors can be improved by using circumferential casing grooves. From previous studies, in the literature, the stall margin improvement due to the casing grooves can be attributed to the reduction of the near casing blockage.
Ahmad Fikri Mustaffa, Vasudevan Kanjirakkad   +1 more
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Climate‐Smart Dairy Practices: The Role of Practice Clusters in Enhancing the Performance of Dairy Farms in Kenya

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu, Amin Mugera, John Mburu, Rose Nyikal, Oghaiki Asaah Ndambi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of slotted casing treatment with surface roughness and dimples on the performance of an axial flow fan

Cogent Engineering
A numerical analysis is conducted to assess the impact of slotted casing treatments, dimples, and surface roughness on the performance of an axial flow fan. Five configurations were evaluated: baseline (without any flow control), axial slots, axial slots
Gautham A. Amin, Pramod B. Salunkhe, Chandrakant R. Kini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A trust‐region funnel algorithm for gray‐box optimization

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Gray‐box optimization, where parts of optimization problems are represented by algebraic models while others are treated as black‐box models lacking analytic derivatives, remains a challenge. Trust‐region (TR) methods provide a robust framework for gray‐box problems through local reduced models (RMs) for black‐box components, but they are ...
Gul Hameed, Tao Chen, Antonio del Rio Chanona, Lorenz T. Biegler, Michael Short   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

ChatCFD: A Large Language Model‐Driven Agent for End‐to‐End Computational Fluid Dynamics Automation with Structured Knowledge and Reasoning

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Chat computational fluid dynamics (CFD) introduces an large language model (LLM)‐driven agent that automates OpenFOAM simulations end‐to‐end, attaining 82.1% execution success and 68.12% physical fidelity across 315 benchmarks—far surpassing prior systems.
E Fan, Kang Hu, Zhuowen Wu, Jiangyang Ge, Jiawei Miao, Yuzhi Zhang, He Sun, Weizong Wang, Tianhan Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee, Chanhong Hwang, Hyunseok Kang, Yechan Park, Hangwoo Jin, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Eunmi Choi, Dugki Min   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source