Impact of conservation agriculture on maize yield and food security: Evidence from smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
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A computational approach to design new tests for viscoplasticity characterization at high strain-rates
Rate-dependent behaviour characterization of metals at high strain rate remains challenging mainly because of the strong hypotheses when tests are processed with statically determinate approaches. As a non-standard methodology, Image-Based Inertial Impact (IBII) test has been proposed to take advantage of the dynamic Virtual Fields Method (VFM) whi...
Construction of a Multicomponent Molecular Model of Fugu Coal for ReaxFF-MD Pyrolysis Simulation
Proper description of chemical structure diversity is necessary for a coal model in exploring the coal pyrolysis mechanism by reactive molecular dynamics (ReaxFF-MD) simulation. This paper presents a strategy for constructing large and reasonable coal models manually with varied chemical structures. A multicomponent molecular model containing 23,89...
Construction of a Multicomponent Molecular Model of Fugu Coal for ReaxFF-MD Pyrolysis Simulation
Proper description of chemical structure diversity is necessary for a coal model in exploring the coal pyrolysis mechanism by reactive molecular dynamics (ReaxFF-MD) simulation. This paper presents a strategy for constructing large and reasonable coal models manually with varied chemical structures. A multicomponent molecular model containing 23,89...
Nudging sustainability transitions in Central Mozambique
An Agricultural Innovation Platform (AIP) facilitates and accelerates transition of farmers from subsistence farming to socially inclusive, environmentally sound and market-oriented farming. AIPs adapt interventions around interlinked levers in the food value chains, with entry points based on a good understanding of farming systems and input/outpu...
Sustaining the beneficial effects of maize production in Nigeria: does adoption of short season maize varieties matter?
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An agency perspective for multi-mode project scheduling with time/cost trade-offs
Project scheduling takes the perspective of a single decision-maker, where the owner is directly involved in the management and control of the project. In this paper, we study the multi-mode project scheduling problem from an agency perspective, where agency arises from the risk-averse contractor's hidden effort, which influences the duration and c...
Associations of potentially inappropriate medication use with four year survival of an inception cohort of nursing home ...
Background: Survival in older adults has a high variability. The possible association of length of survival with potentially inappropriate medication (PIM) use remains unclear. Aim: To examine the four-year survival rate, the prevalence of polypharmacy and PIM use at admission, and the association between the two, in an inception cohort of newly ad...
Investigating the need for real time measurements in industrial wind power systems combined with battery storage
In simulating renewable energy systems (RES), researchers tend to focus on the modeling methodology, but less on the impact of data on the obtained results and associated conclusions. Yet, results may be particularly dependent on the data resolution. RES studies on that impact of data resolution mostly consider households with PV systems, leaving i...
Neo-vaginal advancement flaps in the treatment of urethral strictures in transwomen
OBJECTIVES To explore the use of neo-vaginal advancement flaps in the treatment of distal urethral strictures with description of the techniques and preliminary results in transwomen. METHODS Five patients were treated. A 7-flap was used in 2 patients and an inverted U-flap in 3 patients. In 1 patient with an inverted U-flap, the urethra was furthe...
