Results 51 to 60 of about 55,104 (197)

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing GPS Error for Smart Collars Based on Animal’s Behavior

Applied Sciences, 2019
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) are successfully used in many fields such as navigation, meteorology, military tasks, mapping, virtual fencing, and more.
Azamjon Muminov, Otabek Sattarov, Cheol Won Lee, Hyun Kyu Kang, Myeong-Cheol Ko, Ryumduck Oh, Junho Ahn, Hyung Jun Oh, Heung Seok Jeon   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Virtual Fences

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 2019
In modern world, human-animal conflict has caused hindrance for wildlife conservation and protection of human settlements. A search for effective protection systems have been proposed and re-proposed every passing day. Until now, wild animal identification and repelling systems have been created using Camera Surveillance, infrared and thermal sensors ...
openaire   +1 more source

Digital Technologies for Transparent and Sustainable Supply Chain Management: A Resource Orchestration‐Based View in the Textile Industry

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Implementing digital technologies is touted as the next big step for the firms aiming to improve sustainability in their supply chains. These technologies are often credited with the potential to improve transparency and achieve sustainability.
Amna Farrukh, Aqeel Ahmed, Sadaat Yawar
wiley   +1 more source

Accidental child driveway runovers: Exploring Waikato data and the efficacy of existing responses [PDF]

, 2009
While the numbers of accidents are not high, there is little doubt that driveway runovers are an ongoing, often fatal and inevitably avoidable tragedy for children and their families. In many cases the driver is an immediate family member, or a neighbour
Campbell, Maxine M., Hunter, John, Poulgrain, Hayley Mills   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Sceloporus occidentalis [PDF]

, 1996
Number of Pages: 17Integrative BiologyGeological ...
Bell, Edwin L., Price, Andrew H.
core   +1 more source

Exercise, exerkines, and muscle–brain crosstalk in Parkinson's disease

Neuroprotection, EarlyView.
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with motor and non‐motor symptoms, driven by dopaminergic loss and α‐synuclein accumulation. Beyond neurodegeneration, growing evidence highlights skeletal muscle health as a key determinant of prognosis, with sarcopenia and frailty contributing to greater disability, fall ...
Salomón Páez‐García, Edgar Alvarado, Alejandro Cuevas, Laura Valverde, Eduardo Salinas, Kevin O'Hara‐Veintimilla, María Cruz Rodríguez‐Oroz, Miguel Germán Borda   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stakeholder Challenges and Opportunities of GPS Shock Collars to Achieve Optimum Welfare in a Conservation or Farm Setting

Animals, 2023
Virtual fences for livestock facilitated by a GPS shock collar (GPS-SC) and phone app were introduced to the UK in cattle herd trials in 2020. Technology which uses aversive shocks to control livestock movement on farms and in other settings poses a ...
Iris Alexandra McCormick, Jessica Elizabeth Stokes   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Locality and Singularity for Store-Atomic Memory Models

, 2017
Robustness is a correctness notion for concurrent programs running under relaxed consistency models. The task is to check that the relaxed behavior coincides (up to traces) with sequential consistency (SC).
A Bouajjani, A Bouajjani, A Bouajjani, A Dan, D Shasha, E Derevenetc, J Alglave, J Alglave, J Alglave, J Alglave, J Alglave, J Alglave, J Burnim, J Nieplocha, L Lamport, L Lamport, M Kuperstein, MF Atig, MF Atig, P Sewell, PA Abdulla, PA Abdulla, R Machado, S Burckhardt, S Burckhardt, V Vafeiadis, Y Meshman   +26 more
core   +1 more source

Exposing errors related to weak memory in GPU applications [PDF]

, 2016
© 2016 ACM.We present the systematic design of a testing environment that uses stressing and fuzzing to reveal errors in GPU applications that arise due to weak memory effects.
Alastair F. Donaldson, Alcantara D. A. F., Alglave J., Alglave J., Alglave J., Bardsley E., Chiang W., Collier W. W., Coplin J., Feng W., Hangal S., Hwu W.-m. W., Joshi S., Lê N. M., Sanders J., Tyler Sorensen, Tzeng S., Xiao S., Yuki T.   +18 more
core   +1 more source