Identifying and Prioritizing Factors Affecting the Sustainability of the Agricultural Supply Chain with the Fuzzy DEMATEL and Fuzzy SWARA Approach in the Era of Covid-19: A Case St... by Parastoo Sarani, Alireza Shahraki, Sayyid Ali Banihashemi

“…The proliferation of weeds leads to the squandering of production resources and a decrease in production levels. The most impactful factor for the sustainability of the wheat supply chain, as determined by the causal group, is the requirement of collaborating with an ISO-certified supplier. …”
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Adaptation strategies to climate change and their impact on agricultural production in Punjab, Pakistan by Mustafa, Ghulam

“…It was also found that awareness, education, landholding, access to credit and farm tools has positive significant effect on the majority of adaptation strategies while distance to output markets has significant negative impact. Factors from high rank theory such as membership of farm organization, contact with middle man, farmer-to-farmer extension and contact with extension service agent also contribute to the adaptation to climate change. …”
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Social adaptation towards unstable rubber price among smallholders by Saufe, Nur Aqilah

“…Further, results of multiple regression analysis revealed that socio demographic factors (education level, years of involvement, yield and income) and impact factors (environment, socio economic, and psychology and emotion) were the most influential factors in respondents’ social adaptation towards unstable rubber price. …”
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Scholars in International Relations Cite Books More Frequently than Journals: More Research is Needed to Better Understand Research Behaviour and Use by Megan von Isenburg

“…Setting – Research articles published in three journals on international relations with high impact factors: International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and World Politics. …”
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Retrieving Pigment Concentrations Based on Hyperspectral Measurements of the Phytoplankton Absorption Coefficient in Global Oceans by Jing Teng, Tinglu Zhang, Kunpeng Sun, Hong Gao

“…Furthermore, the poor correlations between the deviations from the values retrieved by the ES-SR method and impact factors related to pigment composition and cell size class show that this method has advantageous robustness. …”
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Estimation of NO₂ emission strengths over Riyadh and Madrid from space from a combination of wind-assigned anomalies and a machine learning technique by Q. Tu, Q. Tu, F. Hase, Z. Chen, M. Schneider, O. García, F. Khosrawi, S. Chen, T. Blumenstock, F. Liu, K. Qin, J. Cohen, Q. He, S. Lin, H. Jiang, H. Jiang, D. Fang, D. Fang

“…However, it might<span id="page2238"/> become challenging in some areas with complicated emission sources and topography, and specific NO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span> decay times in different regions and seasons should be taken into account. These impacting factors should be considered in the future model to further reduce the uncertainty budget.…”
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Argument and information structures in sociology research papers : analysis of the abstract and introduction sections by Cheng, Wei-Ning

“…Based on a sample of 70 research articles from ten sociology journals with high impact factors, the study identified five types of sociology research (i.e. …”
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Levels and influencing factors of perfluorinated and polyfluoroalkyl substances in umbilical cord serum from Sheyang Mini Birth Cohort Study, Jiangsu Province by Ruonan TAN, Zheng WANG, Jiming ZHANG, Yiming DAI, Jianqiu GUO, Xiaojuan QI, Dasheng LU, Xiuli CHANG, Chunhua WU, Zhijun ZHOU

“…Understanding the exposure level of PFAS in cord serum and associated influencing factors can provide scientific evidence for studying maternal and newborn health effects and risk regulation.ObjectiveTo explore the exposure levels of PFAS in cord serum and potential impact factors.MethodsThis study was based on the maternal and infant database and the cord serum sample bank of the Sheyang Mini Birth Cohort Study (SMBCS) established in 2009. …”
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Exploring the impact of housing insecurity on the health and well-being of children and young people: a systematic review by Emma Hock, Lindsay Blank, Hannah Fairbrother, Mark Clowes, Diana Castelblanco Cuevas, Andrew Booth, Elizabeth Goyder

“…In synthesising the evidence, a key challenge was the complexity of the data, in particular of the relationships between exposures and impacts. Factors that were exposures in the first instance could then become impacts, and particular impacts could then drive housing insecurity. …”
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