Concept, features and types of civil legal relations by K. S. Naumenko

“…Attention is drawn to the fact that civil legal relations are regulated not only by the rules of civil law, in particular, this is indicated by such a principle as freedom of contract in civil law. In other words, the content of civil law contracts may go beyond the legal relations provided for by the Civil Code of Ukraine. …”
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Evaluation of Blockchain Technology for Supply Chains using an Integrated Fuzzy Cognitive Map-QFD Methodology by Emre Alptekin, Ayça Maden

“…The results of this study show that the top priorities for blockchain characteristics in a supply chain are smart contract functionality, privacy, transaction per second, tokenization, security, permissioned network, scalability, cost, modularity, and licensing, in order of importance.…”
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Incentive Mechanism of R&D Firms’ Collaborative Innovation Based on Organisational Ambidexterity by Bo Song, Penghao Jin, Liangjie Zhao

“…Moreover, compared with a benefit-distribution contract, cost-sharing contracts would not only lead exploitative innovation to realize optimal revenue, but also provide incentives for exploratory innovation more effectively.…”
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Fault-tolerant quantum memory using low-depth random circuit codes by Jon Nelson, Gregory Bentsen, Steven T. Flammia, Michael J. Gullans

“…As in their work, we formulate the decoding problem as a tensor network contraction and show how to contract the network efficiently by exploiting the low-depth structure. …”
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Dynamic vs. Static Wholesale Pricing Strategies in a Dual-Channel Green Supply Chain by Yongzhao Wang, Xiaojie Sun

“…By introducing the transfer payment contract, we show that the static wholesale pricing strategy may be the better choice, which leads to a win-win outcome for both members. …”
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United in Times of War: Reading Mickey in 1940-1944 France by Eva Van De Wiele

“…Comics have built and maintained relationships with their readers over time, leading to what Martin Barker has called a “contract”. Roger Sabin, for instance, has demonstrated how the Ally Sloper’s Half Holliday papers of the nineteenth century fostered a sense of friendship with readers, who felt their opinions were being heard. …”
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Quelles conditions à l’acceptation d’un dispositif incitatif de politique publique en agriculture ? by Jean-Pierre Del Corso, Geneviève Nguyen, Charilaos Képhaliacos

“…Consistently with the conceptual framework, we develop a methodology combining, on the one hand, an analysis of the institutional process underlying the MAET-DCE setting, and on the other hand, a comparative analysis of the believes hold by the farmers who contracted the MAET and those of the farmers who did not want to contract the MAET. …”
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Fascioliasis: A Zoonotic Disease and Diagnostic Capture Using Radiological Imaging by Anggraeni Ayu Rengganis, Aan Awaludin, Yudhi Ratna Nugraheni

“…However, humans can contract this zoonosis infection by ingesting metacercaria, a juvenile trematode stage, which adheres to aquatic vegetation. …”
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The Kazan period in M.M. Agarkov's life by K.M. Arslanov, D.R. Miftakhutdinova, A.S. Pugacheva

“…This is a review of the French scientists’ works on the labor contract nature. The importance of the results obtained is that the specific archival material under analysis shows the formation of legal ideas and the scientific and pedagogical experience of civilians in the past as a component of ensuring the interrelation of traditions and innovations in the development of legal science and legal regulation.…”
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The Specific Features of the Contemporary Russian Foreign Energy Policy Shift in Modern Times by E. S. Leonov

“…Both contracts can disrupt power balance on the global energy market. …”
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Optimal voltage and frequency control strategy for renewable-dominated deregulated power network by Vineet Kumar, Sumit Sharma, Vineet Kumar, Sachin Sharma, Ark Dev

“…Rigorous evaluation under contract violations, random load variations, and renewable intermittency demonstrates the strategy’s robustness and efficacy.…”
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Unraveling the dyadic dynamics: exploring the impact of flexible working arrangements’ availability on satisfaction with work-life flexibility among working parents by Ya Guo, Fenwick Feng Jing, Yuqi Zhong, Meng Zhu, Senhu Wang

“…Moreover, the impact of one’s availability of FWAs on their satisfaction with WLF, as well as the effects of mothers’ availability of FWAs on their husbands’ satisfaction, are more pronounced among formal contract workers. Overall, this study underscores the dyadic association between couples’ FWAs and satisfaction with WLF among working parents, delineating an asymmetric dynamic.…”
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Procurement at Local Government Level – Issues and Controversies by Marija Kaštelan Mrak, Nenad Vretenar, Jelena Jardas Antonić

“…Picking up on questionnaire responses from 200 LGUs that reported having held over 350 cases of providing services through contract agreements with ‘independent’ service providers, we formed an opinion of what could be the consequences of developing more structured public procurement procedures.…”
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Forecast uncertainties real-time data-driven compensation scheme for optimal storage control by Arbel Yaniv, Yuval Beck

“…Incorrect or improper adjustments to mitigate forecast uncertainties can result in suboptimal energy management, significant financial losses and penalties, and potential contract violations. The revised algorithm optimizes the operation of the battery system in real time and safeguards its state of health by limiting the charging/discharging cycles and enforcing adherence to contractual agreements. …”
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Connection between Relationship Quality and Megaproject Success: Moderating Role of Contractual Functions by Dedong Wang, Yongqiang Lu, Shaoze Fang

“…This work also divided contract functions into control, coordination, and adaptation to investigate the impact of these functions on the relationship between social exchange factors and mianzi (face) with relationship quality. …”
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Research on Financial Hedging Decision Based on Exchange Rate Risk in Transnational Supply Chain by Liang Wang, Xianyan Xiong, Mengmeng Hui

“…Thirdly, from the perspective of wholesale price agreements and revenue-sharing contracts, it discusses the impact of financial hedging behavior and bilateral exchange rate risks on the decision-making process of each member through mathematical modeling. …”
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Conflicts-law constitutionalism in the EMU: how much unity can European diversity sustain? by Anna Peychev

“…The core of the contract between economic and monetary union is set in not so much the formally legal, if economically irrational and practically contentious, divide of the Treaties, but rather, the rules for governing the right balance of EMU are found in its economic governance framework, set up to condition national budgetary policies into optimal function in service of Union monetary policy. …”
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Building resilience: quantity surveyors in the face of future pandemics by Matshete Modiba, Nishani Harinarain

“…Noteworthy impacts include alterations in work dynamics, modifications in site evaluations, increased instances of cost overruns, shifts in contract interpretation, and changes in the preparation of monthly payment certificates. …”
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Endogenous Third-Degree Price Discrimination in a Supply Chain with One Common Manufacturer and Duopoly Retailers by Hongmei Yang, Wei Wang

“…Consequently, the manufacturer designs a fixed fee contract to stimulate retailers to price discriminate and to achieve a win-win situation for them finally.…”
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The systemic evolutionary theory of the origin of cancer (SETOC): an update by Antonio Mazzocca, Giovanni Ferraro, Giovanni Misciagna

“…This process involves a maladaptive response, wherein the 'endosymbiotic contract’ between the nuclear-cytoplasmic system (derived from the primordial archaeal cell) and the mitochondrial system (derived from the primordial α-proteobacterium) gradually breaks down. …”
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