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profitability, etc ; Internet; Olea europaea; abandoned land; agroecosystems; algorithms; data collection; land management; mobile telephones; models; olive oil; olives; socioeconomics; time series analysis; Italy; Show all 15 Subjects
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... The abandonment of rural areas is an important environmental and socio-economic issue in Europe, threatening the stability and profitability of agricultural production. The identification and quantification of abandoned land is key for temporal and spatial monitoring of the process and for applying alternative management measures. Italy is one of the most important European countries for the produ ...
... The Circular Economy (CE) is identified as a solution to address negative impacts due to conventional ‘take-make-consume-dispose’ practices. We posit that a new business model termed Lease & Sell, which integrates the product-service-system (PSS) strategy with product sale for ownership, could enhance opportunities to promote circularity. This paper presents a simulation-based optimization approac ...
... Deep learning (DL) shows remarkable performance in extracting buildings from high resolution remote sensing images. However, how to improve the performance of DL based methods, especially the perception of spatial information, is worth further study. For this purpose, we proposed a building extraction network with feature highlighting, global awareness, and cross level information fusion (B-FGC-Ne ...
profitability, etc ; governance; land; urban areas; urbanization; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Collusive bidding is a severe unethical and illegal practice in urban construction projects. This practice has been identified as the primary inhibitor of sustainable urban development. Collusive bidding is formed and can be profoundly impacted by the urban environment. Identifying the transmission routes of the impacts of the urban environment on collusive bidding is conducive to urban governors ...
profitability, etc ; genetic markers; genomics; humans; sugarcane; sugars; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Sugarcane breeding programs aim to deliver new high-yielding varieties, resistant to diseases and pests, which contribute to profitability and sustainability of cane industries. These programs generally mobilize significant experimental, technological and human resources on long-term basis. Their efficiency in terms of genetic gains per unit of cost and time and their ability to release new variet ...
profitability, etc ; ash content; flour; income; streams; wheat; Show all 6 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Flour millers often produce several flour types from a single wheat grist. Consequently, different specifications characterize each flour. For example, French standards specify six different flour types, each classified by ash content. The proportional blending of different flour streams from a single wheat grist achieves the target flour specifications. This study explo ...
profitability, etc ; energy; farm area; wind; wind farms; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The traditional optimization of a wind farm layout consisted of arranging the wind turbines inside a designated area. In contrast, the 2021 tender from the UK government, Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 (“UK Round-4”), and upcoming bids only specify large regions where the wind farm can be built. This leads to the new challenge of selecting the wind farm shape and area out of a larger region to maxi ...
profitability, etc ; aquaculture industry; debt; risk; salmon; Norway; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Salmon farming stands out from many other industries with its very high profitability, but it is also highly volatile. The main question is whether the profit of individual firms is stable, or whether profitable firms change from year to year. The purpose of this article is to apply the theory of profit persistence to answer this question for salmon farming in Norway. By using panel data from 2010 ...
profitability, etc ; Borneo; agriculture; irrigation; markets; policy analysis; Indonesia; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Indonesian chili faces some problems in increasing production, added value, and competitiveness of chili products, mainly in terms of quantity, quality, and continuity. The objectives of this study are (1) to analyze the private and social profitability of chili farming, (2) to analyze the chili competitiveness from both competitive and comparative advantage perspectives, (3) to examine government ...
profitability, etc ; Holstein; genetic disorders; haplotypes; industry; pedigree; semen; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Genetic studies of livestock animals indicate the presence of recessive alleles in populations, contributing to genetically determined occurrence of disorders and impairing the health of animals. The history of cattle breeding has shown that the absence of monitoring of genetic defects could lead to their high prevalence and, therefore, crucially affect the profitability of the industry. In this p ...
profitability, etc ; conception; ecological economics; energy; issues and policy; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems can play a key role in ecosystems by satisfying the energy needs of people and businesses, helping countries become energy independent and propelling nations towards a climate-neutral future. Within this context, collective self-consumption (CSC) represents a new challenge, anchored in a new conception of the prosumer. The present work aims at calculating the econom ...
profitability, etc ; asymmetry; data collection; finance; markets; social sustainability; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The aim of this study is to analyze how environmental and social sustainability asymmetries in buyer-supplier relationships affect the buyer financial and market performance. In particular, we draw from legitimacy theory to explain how sustainability asymmetries affect firm performance. The hypotheses are tested using a longitudinal dataset of 516 buyer firms belonging to sensitive industries and ...
farm profitability, etc ; cage culture; fish; profits and margins; Ghana; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Over the past decade, the aquaculture sector in Ghana has experienced tremendous growth—driven mainly by large-scale cage aquaculture. Pond aquaculture, traditionally extensive and with limited external inputs, has been transforming over the same period. Farm profitability was wide-ranging, between −12.00 and 46.00 Ghanaian cedi (GHC) per square meter (m²), with an average of GHC 8.82/m² for farme ...
Carlos Theodoro Motta Pereira; Gustavo Hiroshi Sera; Tumoru Sera; Luciana Harumi Shigueoka; Fernando Cesar Carducci; João Batista Gonçalves Dias da Silva; Tiago Santos Telles
profitability, etc ; Coffea arabica; agronomy; cultivars; economic performance; income; Brazil; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Plant spacing influences the yield of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) cultivars and affects profitability; however, there are few studies on it. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the yield and economic performance of Arabica coffee cultivars at different plant spacings. The experiment, conducted in Mandaguari, Paraná, Brazil, used a randomized block design with three replicates ...
profitability, etc ; data collection; environmental management; issues and policy; markets; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Large enterprises have been at the forefront of environmental management with active participation in industrywide programs and adoption of a ‘beyond compliance’ approach. The present study revisits the premise of environmental–financial linkage in an Indian context with a focus on large listed enterprises. We develop a comprehensive dataset of 459 large listed Indian companies covering major manu ...
profitability, etc ; bioreactors; fermentation; hydrodynamics; impellers; mass transfer; oxygen; prediction; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Industrial aerobic fermentation processes are performed in large-scale bioreactors (> 20 m³). Understanding the local values of the velocity field, the eddy dissipation rate and the gas volume fraction is of interest, as these parameters affect mixing and mass transfer and hence fermentation process performance and profitability. Despite the industrial and academic importance of these flow variabl ...
profitability, etc ; agrivoltaic systems; aquaculture; capital costs; sustainable development; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Teaming up photovoltaic (PV) with agriculture or aquaculture, namely, the agrivoltaics and aquavoltaics, create novel energy-food-(land or water) nexus offering mutual benefits potentially. At present, the profitability of these nexuses is still not well quantified, but it is usually what investors are most concerned about. Hence, an economic analysis framework is proposed to benchmark the profita ...
profitability, etc ; blockchain; electricity; energy balance; markets; prices; solar energy; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Sharing local co-owned photovoltaic (PV) energy in multifamily residential buildings is inefficient. Energy produced and consumed within the same building may be considered purchased energy, of which the customer must pay the purchase price, the network service fee, and taxes. As PV typically does not allow self-sufficiency in the Nordic countries, a distribution system operator is needed to provi ...
profitability, etc ; carbon footprint; corporate social responsibility; qualitative analysis; India; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Banking institutions are in a strategic position to implement the ‘Go Green’ strategy and can encourage other firms for the same. This qualitative study analyses the extent of green banking efforts within Delhi NCR and compares them with other organizations. Semi-structured in-depth interviews of 40 different bankers (including managing directors to branch managers) from 10 different public and pr ...
profitability, etc ; cost benefit analysis; cultivation area; irrigation systems; models; Show all 5 Subjects
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... In the present study, a model was developed using a system dynamics approach to simulate and optimize the profitability of crops of the Jofeyr (Isargaran) Irrigation and Drainage Network located in Khuzestan Province. To validate the results, the statistical indicators of root mean square error (RMSE), standard error (SE), mean biased error (MBE), and determination coefficient (R2) were used. To v ...