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An Internet-Based Tool for Weather Risk Management
This paper introduces a web-based computer program designed to evaluate weather risk man-agement and weather insurance in the United States. The paper outlines the economics of weather risk in terms of agricultural production and household well-being ...
Norton, Michael T., Turvey, Calum G.
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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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Leveraging a Bayesian network approach to model and analyze supplier vulnerability to severe weather risk: A case study of the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain following Hurricane Maria. [PDF]
Int J Disaster Risk Reduct, 2020 Lawrence JM +3 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong +2 more
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Optimal Design of Weather Bonds
Replaced with revised version of paper 06/17/08.weather risk, weather bonds, reinsurance, securitisation, Agricultural Finance, Risk and Uncertainty,
Odening, Martin +2 more
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Climatic changes and weather risk management in agriculture [PDF]
Anali Ekonomskog fakulteta u Subotici, 2016 Despite the constant development of the system of forecasting unpredicted events and risks, there are many economic sectors where revenues depend directly on the wheather variables.
Stevanović Simo +2 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This work presents a robotic control method for human–robot collaborative assembly based on a biomechanics‐constrained digital human model. Reinforcement learning is used to generate physiologically plausible human motion trajectories, which are integrated into a virtual environment for robot control learning.
Bitao Yao +4 more
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Climate Change Threatens Micronutrient Density of European Winter Wheat
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Micronutrients are vital for human health. Wheat is a major staple crop and a significant source of minerals and B‐vitamins. The impact of climate change on their content remains largely unknown. We evaluated micronutrient levels in European winter wheat grown under historical and projected climate conditions. Our findings indicate that future climates
Da Cao +17 more
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Willingness to Pay for Weather Derivatives by Australian Wheat Farmers
A theoretical optimal hedging model is developed to determine potential demand from Australian farmers for a hedging tool to remove the economic consequences of climate related variability in wheat yield.
Byrnes, Joel +2 more
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Comparison of the RWDM6 and MG Microphysics Schemes in Precipitation Simulation With the GRIST Model
Earth and Space ScienceRealistic representation of cloud and precipitation processes is crucial for climate simulations. A revised double‐moment 6‐class (RWDM6) cloud microphysics scheme with prognostic precipitation, instead of the Morrison‐Gettelman scheme, is implemented ...
Jiabo Li +3 more
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