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Jung-Hong Hong and Yi-Tin Shi
Smart cities represent a new perspective on modern urban development. They involve an information infrastructure environment with application intelligence to improve operational efficiency and welfare effectively. However, understanding how to overcome t...
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Marii Rasva and Evelin Jürgenson
The agricultural sector in the European Union is largely characterized by a declining number of farms and an increasing size of surviving farms. The land is concentrating under the usage of fewer large agricultural producers. Meanwhile, a broad distribut...
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Ana Paula MARTINS
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In this paper, a formal model of technology-based vertical market structure is interacted with different environments of downstream and upstream strategic behavior. The research is innovative on four grounds: on the one hand, it explicitly establishes ma...
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Reinhard Hutter and Marcus Hutter
Artificial Intelligence (AI): Boon or Bane for societies? AI technologies and solutions?as most revolutionary technologies have done in the past?offer negative implications on the one hand and considerable positive potential on the other. Avoiding the fo...
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Krista Marie McLennan
Pain is a sensory and emotional experience that significantly affects animal welfare and has negative impacts on the economics of farming. Pain is often associated with common production diseases such as lameness and mastitis, as well as introduced to th...
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Mona Franziska Giersberg and Nicole Kemper
The killing of male layer hybrids in the hatcheries, at a day-old, is common practice but it also raises strong socio-ethical concerns. In recent years, three different approaches to avoid this killing have been developed—the in ovo sex determinati...
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Turan KOCABIYIK, Zühal KÜÇÜKÇAKAL
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A Private Pension Scheme is a voluntary retirement plan that allows those enrolled to increase their level of welfare during retirement, ensuring extra income by motivating them to save. In the ?Automatic Enrollment System? that has been in effect since ...
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Muditha Karunarathna, Wasantha Athukorala
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Sri Lanka has experienced a variety of natural disasters that have had a disastrous impact on human wellbeing as well as economic welfare of the country. Available data shows that after 1970s, number of both intensive and extensive disasters have been in...
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Sibel MEHTER AYKIN, Ileana TACHE
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The Association Agreement between Turkey and the European Community set the goal of establishing a Customs Union between the Parties in a 3-stages process, with the hope of Turkey?s eventual membership to the European Economic Community. Despites Customs...
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Haradhan Kumar MOHAJAN
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At present one of the most important concepts in social learning theory is the idea of communities of practice (CoP), which describes a learning theory with a strong relationship to the social construction of knowledge. A CoP is a collection of people wh...
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