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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
wiley   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Bank Efficiency in the Middle East and North Africa

The International Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012
This paper reports institutional factor effects on bank efficiency in Middle Eastern and North African countries during a recent 14 years. The methods used are: Stochastic Frontier Analyses and second-stage Tobit regression to investigate the impact of ...
Saeid Eisazadeh, Zeinab Shaeri
doaj  

Polymer Concepts in Cellular Function

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Miao Yu, Shikha Dhiman, Dorothee Dormann, Frauke Gräter, Katja Luck, Friederike Schmid, Andreas Walther, Edward A. Lemke   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust Nonparametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis

42 pages, 9 ...
Zheng, Peng, Worku, Nahom, Bannick, Marlena, Dielemann, Joseph, Weaver, Marcia, Murray, Christopher, Aravkin, Aleksandr   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automated generative process synthesis via transformer‐based dual‐loop simulation and optimization

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study presents a novel framework for automated generative process synthesis, addressing the complexity of simultaneously optimizing discrete topologies and continuous operating variables. To overcome conventional superstructure limitations, we propose a dual‐loop architecture integrating generative transformers with rigorous process ...
Yeong Woo Son, Chan Kim, Ji Hun Pak, Hain Lee, Jong Min Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population balance modeling and digital design of degree of agglomeration in industrial crystallization

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study presents a coupled population balance model (PBM) for describing the degree‐of‐agglomeration (DoA) in crystallization by independently tracking total particle and agglomerate number densities. Applied to an industrial active pharmaceutical ingredient, the model outperformed bridge‐counting methods and accurately captured DoA trends ...
Yung‐Shun Kang, Hemalatha Kilari, Neda Nazemifard, C. Benjamin Renner, Yihui Yang, Charles Papageorgiou, Zoltan K. Nagy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

GraphRAG for engineering diagrams: ChatP&ID enables LLM interaction with P&IDs

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) are central to process engineering workflows, yet extracting information from them remains a tedious and time‐consuming task. This work introduces ChatP&ID, a framework enabling natural‐language interaction with smart P&IDs through Graph Retrieval‐Augmented Generation (GraphRAG), to our knowledge ...
Achmad Anggawirya Alimin, Artur M. Schweidtmann   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source