How Culturally Aware are Vision-Language Models? [PDF]
arXivAn image is often considered worth a thousand words, and certain images can tell rich and insightful stories. Can these stories be told via image captioning? Images from folklore genres, such as mythology, folk dance, cultural signs, and symbols, are vital to every culture.
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TECHNICAL CHANGE AND AGRICULTURAL TRADE: THREE EXAMPLES (SUGARCANE, BANANAS, AND RICE) [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to examine three cases which provide some insight into the character of international transmission of technical change and its economic impacts and implications.
Evenson, Robert E. +2 more
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"Keep Your Head Down": Unprotected Migrants in South Africa [PDF]
, 2007 Looks at the experiences of undocumented migrant farm workers in South Africa, many of whom lack adequate legal protections and are particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses when they are arrested, detained, or ...
Norma Kriger, Tara Polzer
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ICROFS news 1/2012. Newsletter from ICROFS [PDF]
, 2012 International organic research theme: Organic Farming in Brazil: Organic milk production in Brazil Mokichi Okada Research Center - Agricultural research and development Effect of alternative fertilization: Productive and qualitative per-formance in ...
Sørensen, L.S.
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The Blood of Going Green: Using Environmental Initiatives to Account for the Human Rights Violations of the Green Movement [PDF]
, 2008 Part I of this Note first illustrates the science of climate change and the push for biofuel development. Next, this Note uses human rights to define the problems associated with biofuel development in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, and introduces the ...
Ketabi, Noushin
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Organizational transformation: The impact of servant leadership on work ethic culture with burnout as a mediating factor in the hospitality industry [PDF]
arXivOrientation: The study explores the connections among servant leadership, burnout, and work ethic culture in organizations. It aims to provide a detailed understanding of how servant leadership influences work ethic culture, especially by considering the role of burnout.
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Management of Acid Soils [PDF]
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Craswell, Eric T., Pushparajah, E.
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Determining Mosaic Resilience in Sugarcane Plants using Hyperspectral Images [PDF]
arXivSugarcane mosaic disease poses a serious threat to the Australian sugarcane industry, leading to yield losses of up to 30% in susceptible varieties. Existing manual inspection methods for detecting mosaic resilience are inefficient and impractical for large-scale application.
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EcoCropsAID: Economic Crops Aerial Image Dataset for Land Use Classification [PDF]
arXivThe EcoCropsAID dataset is a comprehensive collection of 5,400 aerial images captured between 2014 and 2018 using the Google Earth application. This dataset focuses on five key economic crops in Thailand: rice, sugarcane, cassava, rubber, and longan.
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A review of management strategies for salt-prone land and water resources in Iran [PDF]
Water resource management/ Land management/ Leaching/ Drainage/ Sodic soils/ Soil reclamation/ Supplemental irrigation/ Irrigation ...
Heydari, Nader +4 more
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