Digital finance, maize productivity, and welfare of farm households in Burkina Faso by Salimata Traore, Richard K. Moussa

“…Maize productivity is thus important for food security and household welfare but is constrained by financial issues that can be alleviated by digital finance. …”
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Cost Share Programs for Florida's Agricultural Producers and Landowners by Rao Mylavarapu, Kelly Hines, Alyssa Dodd

“… SL-264, a 4-page fact sheet by Rao Mylavarapu, Kelly Hines, and Alyssa Dodd, describes several conservation programs included in the 2008 Farm Bill — the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Grassland Reserve Program (GRP), Wildlife Habitats Incentive Program (WHIP), and the Conservation Security Program (CRP) — which may be of high interest to farmers, ranchers, land owners, agricultural consultants, local decision-makers and extension agents. …”
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Talk About Crime Among Young People in Northern Mexico: The Impact of Drug Trafficking in the Neighborhood by Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño, Martha Romero-Mendoza, Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis

“…The main changes pointed out by the young people were the intensification of insecurity, the expansion of drug dealing in the community, mental health problems (especially addictions), the restriction of mobility on the streets, and changes in the relationship with security institutions. They also refer to changes such as the normalization of drug trafficking and the decline of the neighborhood’s image.…”
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THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSURANCE SERVICES IN THE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN AND THE WAYS OF ITS SOLUTION by G. Jabarov

“…The article dwells on problems of development of insurance services in the Republic of Tajikistan, the insurance market, in particular the development of insurance services in the agricultural sector and its influence on the further development of agriculture and food security in Tajikistan. The author determines that among the most pressing problems which inhibit the insurance, is not well-developed banking system, not profitability and productivity of existing farms and farms, insufficient government subsidies in the agricultural sector, macroeconomic factors, increased differentiation of agricultural producers in terms of income, the bankruptcy of a large part of dehkan (farmer) economy and the lack of necessary infrastructure. …”
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Tributary by James Davoll, Paul Dolan, Pete Howson

“…Tributary explores covert, 'black-boxed' data centres (remote and highly secure sites) by tracking water and geothermal sources to the infrastructure required to power and house these physical locations of intensive computational processing. …”
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Safe Harbor Agreement: A Regulatory Assurance under the Endangered Species Act by Melissa M. Kreye, Elizabeth F. Pienaar, Raoul K. Boughton, Lindsey Wiggins

“… The involvement of the private sector is critical for the conservation and recovery of many species, but landowners’ fears that increased management restrictions could keep them from enjoying their land can present a challenge to securing their trust and assistance in conservation efforts. …”
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Identification of critical nodes in supply chain networks by Zhen Hua, Yongxiang Xia, Yucheng Chen, Weigang Sun

“…The accurate identification of the critical nodes in a SCN is important for securing the supply chain. This study proposes a new method for identifying critical nodes in SCNs based on the topological and functional characteristics of SCNs. …”
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A Laryngoscope with Shape Memory Actuation by Fischer Nikola, Ho Patty, Marzi Christian, Schuler Patrick, Mathis-Ullrich Franziska

“…Endotracheal intubation is a medical procedure to secure a patient’s airways, which can be challenging in emergency situations due to an individual’s anatomy. …”
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Individual Agency and the Diversity of Traditional Practice: The Iji Nla Association of Ijede by Charles K. Omotayo

“…Over time, it increasingly functioned as an institution providing traditional social control mechanisms and security. This article focuses on the origin, structure, and diversity of the Iji Nla Association as a traditional social mechanism and its continued relevance in Ijede. …”
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An Improvement of the Camshift Human Tracking Algorithm Based on Deep Learning and the Kalman Filter by Van-Truong Nguyen, Duc-Tuan Chu, Dinh-Hieu Phan, Ngoc-Tien Tran

“…Automated human tracking in real time has been applied in many areas such as security, surveillance, traffic control, and robots. …”
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Delay-Range-Dependent H∞ Control for Automatic Mooring Positioning System with Time-Varying Input Delay by Xiaoyu Su, Hongzhang Jin, Wei Shen, Yunbiao Gu

“…Aiming at the economy and security of the positioning system in semi-submersible platform, the paper presents a new scheme based on the mooring line switching strategy. …”
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CRITICAL ARGUMENTS ABOUT READMISSION PRACTICES AND POLICIES BETWEEN EU AND TURKEY by Zühal Ünalp-çepel

“…Within the scope of the analyses, it is aimed to discuss the critical arguments on political approaches and security policies of the European Union and Turkey on migration control and elaborate why both sides preferred to solve the migration crisis through regional, and specifically, bilateral instruments.…”
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Hybrid Intrusion Detection System for DDoS Attacks by Özge Cepheli, Saliha Büyükçorak, Güneş Karabulut Kurt

“…Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are one of the major threats and possibly the hardest security problem for today’s Internet. In this paper we propose a hybrid detection system, referred to as hybrid intrusion detection system (H-IDS), for detection of DDoS attacks. …”
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Countering detector manipulation attacks in quantum communication through detector self-testing by Lijiong Shen, Christian Kurtsiefer

“…In practical quantum key distribution systems, imperfect physical devices open security loopholes that challenge the core promise of this technology. …”
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The Environmentally Friendly Practices to Fight Plants’ Diseases: Scope Review by Ziad B. Al-Rawashdeh

“… Plant diseases reduce the production and affect the food security. The use of synthetic chemicals affects the environment and individual health quality. …”
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Long-Term Remission of a Spinal Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor in Response to Intensive Multimodal Therapy by Fahd Refai, Haneen Al-Maghrabi, Hassan Al Trabolsi, Jaudah Al-Maghrabi

“…Provided clinical and diagnostic suspicion is high, the histopathological diagnosis is relatively straightforward to secure by testing for the characteristic loss of the tumor suppressor protein SMARCB1/INI1. …”
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Ambitions et limites du grand projet chinois des Nouvelles Routes de la soie by Emmanuel Lincot

“…What is more original is to understand China's proposal to project beyond its borders in the aim to deploy a very extensive network both in economic and security fields is a worldwide and massive global strategy for the future. …”
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Sub-regional efforts to achieve gender equality in land ownership by Marcel Loyd MINKA

“…Results: The results obtained from my analysis are: the mechanisms for implementing women’s tenure security; the tools for codifying women’s land tenure; and the monitoring progress for strengthening women’s land rights in Africa. …”
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Transformative adaptation: from climate-smart to climate-resilient agriculture by Jon Hellin, Eleanor Fisher, Marcus Taylor, Suhas Bhasme, Ana María Loboguerrero

“…Abstract In response to the climate crisis, there has been much focus on climate-smart agriculture (CSA); namely, technologies and practices that enhance adaptation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to food security; the so-called triple win. Success has tended to be measured in terms of the number of farmers adopting CSA with less focus given to the impacts especially on human development. …”
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Harnessing distributed GPU computing for generalizable graph convolutional networks in power grid reliability assessments by Somayajulu L.N. Dhulipala, Nicholas Casaprima, Audrey Olivier, Bjorn C. Vaagensmith, Timothy R. McJunkin, Ryan C. Hruska

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