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Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying Optimal Hiking Locations Using a GIS-Based Suitability Model

Geographies
The growth of ecotourism and hiking is one pillar of Saudi Vision 2030. However, the Kingdom lacks an up-to-date national spatial classification that would enable systematic coverage and strategic decision-making on potentially suitable hiking areas.
Abdullah Alattas, Riyan Mohammad Sahahiri   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Travail de terrain, développement et intervention sociale

, 2013
Cet exposé proposera un ensemble de réflexions relatives à l’interaction entre le travail de recherche de terrain, les problématiques du développement et de l’intervention sociale, principalement à partir de l’exemple du Pérou.
Yépez Del Castillo, Isabel, Colloque Iacchos 2013 ; Défis éthiques, émotionnels et pratiques de la recherche de terrain, Piccoli, Emmanuelle   +2 more
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Comments on “Postures of listening” by Victor A. Stoichita and Bernd Brabec de Mori

, 2018
The journal Terrain invited five distinguished scholars from various disciplines to give their opinion on the “Postures of listening“ proposal by Victor A. Stoichita and Bernd Brabec de Mori.
Tolbert, Elizabeth, Hatten, Robert, Hatten, Robert S., Dokic, Jérôme, Ingold, Tim, Kreutzer, Michel   +5 more
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Explaining the Origin of Negative Poisson's Ratio in Amorphous Networks With Machine Learning

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This review summarizes how machine learning (ML) breaks the “vicious cycle” in designing auxetic amorphous networks. By transitioning from traditional “black‐box” optimization to an interpretable “AI‐Physics” closed‐loop paradigm, ML is shown to not only discover highly optimized structures—such as all‐convex polygon networks—but also unveil hidden ...
Shengyu Lu, Xiangying Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Sensing Artificial‐Muscle‐Empowered Humanlike Perception, Interaction, and Positioning

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
The proposed self‐sensorized artificial muscle (SSAM) can sense its length change as small as 0.01 mm via a seamlessly integrated multi‐segment induction coil. The SSAM provides accurate length information regardless of its loadings, driving pressure, or muscle design, adequate for robust data‐driven feedback control.
Houping Wu, Chenchen Li, Yufeng Wang, Zhengyan Wang, Yulian Peng, Zhipeng Wei, Hongbo Wang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Terrain analysis and Geographic Information Systems [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to define terrain analysis, as it relates to military applications; to review the historical development of the central ideas of terrain analysis, which has led to the development of three computer programs that are designed ...
Bruzese, Victoria M.
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Stochastic Locomotion Emerging From Body–Environment Interactions in a Mexican Jumping Bean–Inspired Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Inspired by the Mexican jumping bean, this study presents a centimeter‐scale, electronics‐free robot that merges principles from both the animal and plant kingdoms. A thermo‐responsive actuator mimicking larval motion, enclosed within a uniquely shaped plant‐seed‐inspired shell, generates jumping, rolling, flipping, sliding, and climbing through ...
Ragesh Chellattoan, Alessio Mondini, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Barbara Mazzolai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distributed State Estimation for Mobile Robots in LiDAR Sensor Networks With Intermittent Inertial Measurements

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A scalable distributed observer framework for LiDAR sensor networks is presented for robust tracking and pose estimation of mobile robots. By combining adaptable 3D detection, clustering‐based communication reduction, and intermittent inertial fusion, accurate and efficient estimation is achieved under occlusions and sensing constraints, with formally ...
Isabella Luppi, Ehsan Hashemi
wiley   +1 more source