Research on the Mechanism of Cold Chain Logistics Subsidy by Nai-Ru Xu, Zheng-Qun Cai

“…Therefore, in view of the loss of supply chain efficiency caused by decentralized decision-making, the Shapley value method is used to make coordination, and the contract coordination mechanism is designed. Finally, the sensitivity of parameters is analyzed by a numerical example.…”
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Optimal Decision and Coordination of Fresh E-Commerce Supply Chain Considering Double Loss by Shizhen Bai, Yang Lv, Zejun Liu

“…Furthermore, we design a “two-way cost sharing-revenue sharing” contract to coordinate the supply chain and achieve Pareto improvement.…”
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FractalNet-based key generation for authentication in Voice over IP using Blockchain by Vajjala Sreenivasulu, Chinthaginjala Ravikumar

“…The implementation of the proposed methodology is as follows: Here, several entities, such as VoIP users, admin, smart contract, as well as minor nodes are considered. Moreover, the steps that are considered include Blockchain association, Registration, Initialization, Authentication, Key generation, as well as Verification. …”
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Estimation des teneurs en nitrates dans les eaux potables par l'utilisation de bandelettes réactives : un exercice d’éducation à l’environnement dans la vallée du Sourou au Burkina... by Francis Rosillon, Boubacar Savadogo, Aminata Kabore, Jean Noël Poda, Hortense Bado-Sama, Dayeri Dianou

“…Within the framework of the application of the contract of Sourou river in Burkina Faso, an estimation of the nitrates contents in waters was made by using a fast test by reagent strips. …”
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Assessing the impact of personal income tax reforms on the income inequality dynamics in Russia in the 21st century by M. L. Dorofeev

“…However, this problem does not have universal solutions due to significant country differences and the peculiarities of the social contract in a particular country. The purpose of this study is to analyse and assess the impact of reforms in the system of taxation of personal income on the dynamics of income inequality of Russian households. …”
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Statistical Modeling of HIV, Tuberculosis, and Hepatitis B Transmission in Ghana by Clement Twumasi, Louis Asiedu, Ezekiel N. N. Nortey

“…Females were more likely to contract HIV, whereas males were prone to contracting TB.…”
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Marriage and the Concept of Ubale, the Sanctity and the Ridicule: Ulale-Mobà as a Case Study by Oladiipo Ajiboye

“…A lady who is going into a marriage contract is expected to be pure by abstaining from sexual experience prior to the official seal of the marriage with her spouse. …”
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Capital structure of Portuguese hotel firms: a structural equation modelling approach by Fernanda Matias, Leonor Salsa, Carlos Miguel Afonso

“…The results suggest small firms find it difficult to contract loans, which can somewhat limit their growth and performance.…”
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Research on Coordination of Fresh Produce Supply Chain in Big Market Sales Environment by Juning Su, Jiebing Wu, Chenguang Liu

“…We also obtain a value range of contract parameters that can increase profits of all participants in the decentralized supply chain. …”
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Self-Management for People with Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Fred Saibil, Emily Lai, Andrew Hayward, Jeanne Yip, Cameron Gilbert

“…The present paper reviews some of the literature on self-management for the patient with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and provides a framework for the use of self-management in the IBD population, with emphasis on the concept of a patient passport, and the use of e-mail, supported by an e-mail contract, as proposed by the Canadian Medical Protective Association. …”
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Economic efficiency of energy storage systems for renewable energy power plants integration in the energy system by E. A. Tregubova, M. A. Gorodilov, L. S. Lyushnin

“…It has been noted that it is necessary to tighten the requirements for the installed capacity utilization rates of power plants and to give priority to projects with storage facilities in the competitive selection of RES generation under capacity supply contract programs.…”
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Train Repathing in Emergencies Based on Fuzzy Linear Programming by Xuelei Meng, Bingmou Cui

“…We design the fuzzy membership function to describe the fuzzy coefficients. Furthermore, the contraction-expansion factors are introduced to contract or expand the value ranges of the fuzzy coefficients, coping with the uncertainty of the value range of the fuzzy coefficients. …”
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Mapping employment dynamics in public agencies with payroll data: A methodological framework with an application to Chile. by Mauricio Herrera, Daniel Brieba

“…While major covariates like contract type and staff rank account for some variation, much of the disparity stems from agency-specific factors. …”
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Regulatory and policy analysis of employment and health protections in Indonesia’s creative economy by Afrilies Marlia Hafny, Naili Yuris Tri, Lina Angie Angel

“…Despite advancements, such as the introduction of social health insurance in Vietnam, Indonesia faces regulatory shortcomings in providing adequate health protection for creative workers, many of whom are freelancers or contract workers. Using a normative legal research method, this study analyzes key legal frameworks, including laws related to manpower, social security, and creative economy regulations, to assess the extent to which existing policies address labor and health protection in the digital era. …”
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Evidence-based practices in teaching by Eliza Rybska, Renata Dudziak, Pascal Pollmeier

“… This article presents the results of the implementation of the Erasmus Plus project (KA203 financed by the European Union, contract number 2019-1-NL01-KA203-060339) Research in Teacher Education (RiTE). …”
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European public procurement directives and their implementation in Slovenia by Stanka Setnikar Cankar, Veronika Petkovšek

“…The objectives of the research work were: a comparison of public procurement legislation in selected EU countries; determination of the current situation in the field of public procurement in local government in years 2008 and 2009; determination of similarities and differences in the implementation of contracts; determination of the most common open questions in the implementation of contracts; determination of good practices in public procurement and making the recommendations for changes. …”
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Research on efficient and secure cross-domain data sharing of IoV under blockchain architecture by Xuejiao LIU, Tiancong CAO, Yingjie XIA

“…To solve the problems of data disclosure, uncontrolled data access, and inefficiency of cross-domain data sharing in the Internet of vehicles (IoV), an efficient and secure cross-domain data sharing scheme of IoV under blockchain architecture was proposed.A blockchain was maintained by trusted authorities of different trust domains.A modified ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption scheme was adopted to encrypt data, and encrypted data was stored in interplanetary file system (IPFS) with relevant information recorded on the blockchain, constructing a fine-grained and secure cross-domain data sharing scheme based on blockchain.A verification algorithm for cross-domain access based on the garbled Bloom filter was designed, and a smart contract executed fast decryption tests based on access policies on the blockchain, improving the access efficiency of a mass of ciphertext.A cross-domain data access method based on outsourcing decryption was designed, and the trusted authorities transformed ciphertexts while performing outsourcing decryption with complex bilinear pairing calculations, reducing the time overhead of vehicle decryption.Experiment results show that the proposed scheme is superior to other schemes in the process of cross-domain ciphertext transformation and vehicle decryption, and the cross-domain data access efficiency is increased by 60% on average.…”
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Digital Panopticon Dilemmas: A Study on Contact Tracing Apps Carried Out by the Ministry of Health by Elifnur Terzioğlu

“…This study analyzes 49 countries whose Ministries of Health applied contract tracing applications during the Covid-19 pandemic process through the digital panopticon perception, which would be labeled as classified data according to their democracy indexes.…”
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Adopting a QCA Approach to Investigating the Risks Involved in Megaprojects from Auditing Perspective by Liang Ma, Bing Zhang, Miao Cui, Ruoyu Jin

“…Different from the traditional analysis method taking each causation as independent variable, the results in the study revealed that there was complex multiple concurrent causation among eight conditions; additionally, the configuration of those would be divided into six types, among which, the coverage of the three types, namely, project management risk, preliminary and construction risk, and tendering and contract management related risk, was almost eighty percent. …”
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CASUALISATION OF WORK IN CONSTRUCTION, AND THE PLIGHT OF WORKERS IN BLOEMFONTEIN by Lesiba Mollo, Fidelise EMUZE

“…Casualisation is defined as the procedure of employing people either on a daily, weekly or monthly basis for an undefined task or specified job without issuing a permanent contract. The study explored the reasons why unemployed people are choosing to become casual workers, and the challenges that they face in the construction industry. …”
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