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Willie Nakunyada,Laurine Chikoko
AbstractThis article analyses the competitiveness of Zimbabwe?s exports in the South African market under the multiple currency system from 2009 to 2011. Using real exchange rate analysis and the Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage index (RSCA), the...
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Weijiao Ye and Ziqiang Li
Guaranteeing an increase in ecologically sustainable food production is a sufficient prerequisite for the long-term development of national food security. This study?s primary goal is to determine strategies for improving the nation?s green total factor ...
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Athakorn Promwee, Sukimplee Nijibulat and Hien Huu Nguyen
The rising adoption of agricultural technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) or ?smart farming? aims to boost crop production in terms of both quantity and quality. This study compares the benefits of a smart farm employing an IoT-based hydropon...
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Riguga Su, Chaobin Yang, Zhibo Xu, Tingwen Luo, Lilong Yang, Lifeng Liu and Chao Wang
Urban landscape has important effects on urban climate, and the local climate zone (LCZ) framework has been widely applied in related studies. However, few studies have compared the relative contributions of LCZ on the urban thermal environment across di...
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Fenli Jia, Weiming Wang, Jian Yang, Tingting Li, Guomin Song and Yeqiu Xu
A rectangular cartogram is a kind of graphical representation that uses a rectangular area to represent the attributes of geographical objects and is widely used in the representation of statistical data such as population, economic statistics, and epide...
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Mengzhi Xu, Jixia Li and Shixin Luan
Regional climate change is affected by global warming, large-scale inter-regional circulation, and land use/cover. As a result of different ecological, economic, and social conditions, climate adaptation actions vary from region to region, including comm...
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Wei Xu, Xunhong Zhu, Liping Zhang and Jun Gao
Complex diseases are affected by various factors, and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the basis for their susceptibility by affecting protein structure and gene expression. Complex diseases often arise from the interactions of multiple SNPs an...
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Wen Li, Chenying Liu, Qizhi Yang, Yulan You, Zhihang Zhuo and Xiaolin Zuo
Leading agricultural enterprises attracting farmers to participate in vertical collaboration within the industry chain can expedite the process of agricultural industrialization and help achieve rural revitalization. This study focuses on table grape gro...
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Ana García-Moral, Encarnación Moral-Pajares and Leticia Gallego-Valero
The Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), part of the EU?s quality policy for agri-food products, aims to provide consumers with reliable information on the quality of a food, linked to its origin. Olive oil has perceptible qualities derived from its pl...
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Shan Chen, Huan Liang, Qian Zhang, Qingchun Feng, Tao Li, Liping Chen and Kai Jiang
The grafting machine cutting step is the core step of the grafting process. The existing grafting machine cutting mechanism adopts fixed angle cutting and manually adjusts the cutting angle based on experience, and the cutting angle is not definite for r...
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Teodora Tica, Bojan Matkovski, Danilo Ðokic and ?ana Jurjevic
Serbia is a significant producer of tobacco in Europe and the only country in Europe where tobacco production is growing. Due to privatization, some of the most important multinational companies are now producing tobacco products in Serbia. Bearing in mi...
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Katerina Kabassi, Anastasia Papadaki and Athanasios Botonis
Stakeholders in Environmental Education (EE) often face difficulties identifying and selecting programs that best suit their needs. This is due, in part, to the lack of expertise in evaluation knowledge and practice, as well as to the absence of a unifie...
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Hossam S. Abdelwahab, Shan Wang, Josko Parunov and C. Guedes Soares
A new uncertainty quantifier is presented for linear transfer functions of wave-induced ship motions and loads obtained by various seakeeping codes. The numerical simulations are conducted for the high-speed Flokstra container ship in regular waves at va...
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Adeeb Sidani, João Poças Martins and Alfredo Soeiro
This article presents a comprehensive review of the safety status and technological development in high-risk industries, with a focus on construction, mining, agriculture, transportation, healthcare, and energy sectors. The objective is to analyse and co...
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Hua Liu, Chengjian Yang and Zhaorong Chen
Promoting carbon reduction in the construction sector is crucial to achieving China?s ?double carbon? target. However, due to the interaction of multiple factors, the carbon emission efficiency of Chinese construction industry (CEECI) varies from provinc...
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Daoyi Lu, Gerasimos Theotokatos, Jundong Zhang, Hong Zeng and Keying Cui
Although the exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) technology has been proven effective to decrease the marine engine?s nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions, it is associated with a considerable fuel consumption increase and challenges to the engine?turbocharger ma...
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Zhenyu Huang, Ying Yang and Fengmei Zhang
Attention is increasingly being paid to the influence of hinterland cities on port competitiveness, but in-depth research is lacking on the formation conditions and mechanism of hinterland cities? influence on port competitiveness. Based on the technolog...
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Gilson Adamczuk Oliveira, Gisele Taís Piovesan, Dalmarino Setti, Shoji Takechi, Kim Hua Tan and Guilherme Luz Tortorella
Facing the new challenges in production processes, companies should adopt lean and green practices in product development. In SMEs, the application of these practices is more complex. This work explores the maturity of lean?green methodologies in the pro...
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Gianluigi Salvucci and Luca Salvati
The present study provides a simplified framework verifying the degree of coverage and completeness of settlement maps derived from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database at the national scale, with a possible use in official statistics. Measuring the complete...
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Pasquale Piombino, Vincenzo Abbate, Lorenzo Sani, Stefania Troise, Umberto Committeri, Emanuele Carraturo, Fabio Maglitto, Giacomo De Riu, Luigi Angelo Vaira and Luigi Califano
Orthognatic Surgery.
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