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
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Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto +2 more
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Optimizing Regional Trade Networks through Blockchain-Based Cross-Border E-Commerce Credit Systems
Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production ManagementThis study examines using blockchain to establish trust in cross-border e-commerce and strengthen regional trade networks to address major issues such as information asymmetry, lack of a trust mechanism, and inefficiency, which are found in traditional ...
Lili Du +3 more
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AIChE Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The rapid growth of AI data centers (AIDCs) is intensifying stress on power systems and exposing operators to volatile electricity markets. This work develops a process‐informed co‐optimization framework that integrates liquid air energy storage (LAES) with AIDC operation. Unlike black‐box storage models, the proposed formulation captures LAES
Zhicong Fang +3 more
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Assessment of associated credit risk in the supply chain based on trade credit risk contagion. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Xie X, Zhang F, Liu L, Yang Y, Hu X.
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Embedded Morgan Fingerprints for More Efficient Molecular Property Predictions With Machine Learning
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.High dimensionality of Morgan fingerprints causes overfitting and slow training. Embedded Morgan Fingerprint (eMFP) compresses this encoding while keeping key structural information intact. Tested on five regression models across three databases for HOMO–LUMO gap prediction, eMFP outperforms standard fingerprints, training faster on large, high ...
Emilio Nuñez‐Andrade +4 more
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COVID-19 and trade credit speed of adjustment. [PDF]
Financ Res Lett, 2022 Luo H.
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.A hybrid Reinforcement Learning–Explainable AI framework integrates SHAP and LIME explanations directly into a Deep Q‐Network inference loop for real‐time ICU decision support. Trained on 18 142 mechanically ventilated stays from the eICU database, the system attains 93.0% decision accuracy, 20% fewer errors than RL alone, and a 91% clinician trust ...
Jannatul Ferdaus Disha +2 more
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Erratum: E-commerce platform financing versus trade credit financing: financing mode selection for online retailer considering live-stream selling in China. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Frontiers Production Office.
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Vision‐Based Tactile Finger Integrating Fingerpad and Nail Sensing for Robotic Manipulation
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This vision‐based tactile finger captures nail force and fingerpad force, contact position, and in‐plane orientation with one internal camera. An external camera recognizes the target and presets finger inclination from object height. The compact dual‐sensing design supports tactile‐guided table contact and reliable grasping of objects ranging from ...
Hao Zhou, Kazuhiro Shimonomura
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