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Market‐Based Nutrition Regulation and Adult BMI Dynamics in Latin America
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Market‐based nutrition policies, including interpretative labeling systems and taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs), have been widely adopted across Latin America to influence dietary choices and address rising obesity rates. While prior research documents change in food purchasing and product reformulation following these policies ...
Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Grace Melo
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The world’s largest cities under climate change and their adaptive capacity to rising heat
Scientific ReportsWe quantify future urban heat exposure and adaptation capacity for the 1563 largest global cities, for the first time globally integrating climate projections, urban morphology, and economic capacity.
John Friesen, Hannes Taubenböck
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Hydro-ecological controls on riverine organic carbon dynamics in the tropical monsoon region
Scientific Reports, 2019 Transport fluxes and properties of riverine organic carbon in the tropical monsoon region were the vital parameters in the global riverine organic carbon fluxes budget.
Qianzhu Zhang +8 more
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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
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SENSING URBAN LAND-USE PATTERNS BY INTEGRATING GOOGLE TENSORFLOW AND SCENE-CLASSIFICATION MODELS [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 With the rapid progress of China’s urbanization, research on the automatic detection of land-use patterns in Chinese cities is of substantial importance. Deep learning is an effective method to extract image features.
Y. Yao, H. Liang, X. Li, J. Zhang, J. He
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Villages and Urbanization [PDF]
, 2017 In this article comments by politician Boris Johnson and economist Edward Glaeser exemplify narratives of global urbanization that portray rural villages as redundant and perpetuate outdated notions of urban–rural division.
Ben Stringer, Stringer, B.
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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 +3 more
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Computational Urban ScienceThe spatiotemporal mobility patterns and next location prediction of fake base stations (FBS) provide important technical support for the police to prevent spam messages from FBS.
Yufei·Shi, Haiyan Tao, Li Zhuo
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CEDAnet: Individual Tree Segmentation in Dense Orchard via Context Enhancement and Density Prior
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingIndividual tree segmentation (ITS) is a pivotal technique in orchard research, estimating tree counts and delineating crown contours. This method provides foundational data for assessing orchard health, nutritional composition, and predicting yield ...
Fangjie Zhu +4 more
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Intrinsic Identification and Mitigation of Multipath for Enhanced GNSS Positioning
Sensors, 2020 In global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-based positioning and applications, multipath is by far the most obstinate impact. To overcome paradoxical issues faced by current processing approaches for multipath, this paper employs an intrinsic method to
Qianxia Li +6 more
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