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Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2021 Teff is among the most widely grown cereal crop in Ethiopia and important in national food security. The study aimed to measure technical efficiency and sources of inefficiencies of teff producer farmers.
Zinabu Tesfaw +2 more
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Robust Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Frontier Models [PDF]
Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2019 We use the concept of coarsened posteriors to provide robust Bayesian inference via coarsening in order to robustify posteriors arising from stochastic frontier models. These posteriors arise from tempered versions of the likelihood when at most a pre-specified amount of data is used, and are robust to changes in the model.
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Drawing inspiration from the layered hard‐soft architecture found in sea sponges, this work establishes a new framework for architected cementitious composites (ACC) through multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) process. The integration of mortar and elastomer phases into layered architectures enables synergistic toughening mechanisms, including
Aimane Najmeddine +5 more
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Barekeng, 2023 The stochastic production frontier (SPF) is the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) method used to estimate the production frontier by accounting for the existence of inefficiency.
Ismail Pranata +2 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj +8 more
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A stochastic frontier model for measuring online bank profit efficiency
South African Journal of Business Management, 2011 This study revisited an alternative profit efficiency function specified by Berger Mester, (1997) and we applied Battese Coelli, (1995) inefficiency model as a unified and consistent framework in exploring the determinants of important factors causing ...
M. A. Baten, A. A. Kamil
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Plasmonic Nanomachines: Creating Local Potential Gradients and Motions
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Plasmonic nanomachines can generate optical, thermal, and chemical potential gradients to drive directional rectilinear, rotational, and twisting motions at the nanometer scale. The integration of multimodal plasmonic forces with functional materials and programmed structural distortions enables precise spatiotemporal actuation, thereby providing a ...
Yoonhee Kim +3 more
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Topological Point Defects in SmC* Liquid Crystals Under Mechanical Disturbance
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Tangetial air jet shear inducess island formation and nucleates topological point defects in uniform SmC films. Island bounded by edge dislocation loops shrink and transform into isolated point defects under continued shear. Mechanical perturbatio provides a controllable route for defect engineering in smectric liquid crystal thin films.
Gunganist Kongklad +3 more
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Information Transmission Strategies for Self‐Organized Robotic Aggregation
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.In this review, we discuss how information transmission influences the neighbor‐based self‐organized aggregation of swarm robots. We focus specifically on local interactions regarding information transfer and categorize previous studies based on the functions of the information exchanged.
Shu Leng +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study explores the use of N, S co‐doped carbon quantum dots (NS‐CQDs) as carriers for riboflavin, creating NS‐CQDs‐RF composite photosensitizers. These composites improve riboflavin absorption, enhance ROS generation efficiency, and preserve corneal epithelium integrity.
Tinghong Xu +9 more
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