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The innovative approaches to the investigation of preconditions for creation management methodology of an enterprise`s logistics expenses [PDF]

Marketing i Menedžment Innovacij, 2013
The aim of the article. The aim of the article is to define a concept of the enterprise in a form of the universal logistics system as the object of an investigation in the postneoinstitutional axiomatic theory of the economic analysis.The results of the
T.V. Shcholokova
doaj  

A unified framework for building ontological theories with application and testing in the field of clinical trials [PDF]

, 2001
The objective of this research programme is to contribute to the establishment of the emerging science of Formal Ontology in Information Systems via a collaborative project involving researchers from a range of disciplines including philosophy, logic ...
Barbara, Heller, Heinrich, Herre, Smith, Barry   +2 more
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Rethinking the contract‐failure theory

American Business Law Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The contract‐failure theory posits that the nonprofit form can be an indicator of high product quality because the nondistribution constraint reduces the nonprofit manager's financial benefits from cheating. This would give nonprofits an advantage over for‐profit firms when consumers cannot determine product quality and thus explains ...
Yumiao Wang
wiley   +1 more source

Toward an Organizational Theory of Membership Structural Design [PDF]

Various events have led to the development of highly complex cooperative operations and to concepts for understanding operations. However. development of membership structures and concepts for understanding these structures has lagged. This paper imports
Butler, Gillian, Gray, Thomas W.
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Psychedelic‐assisted treatment for substance use disorder: A narrative systematic review

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims This is the first systematic review of the extant literature on all major psychedelic‐assisted treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD), tobacco use disorder (TUD) and other substance use disorders (SUD). We aimed to summarise the evidence for efficacy of psychedelic‐assisted treatment for AUD, TUD, and SUD; to evaluate its
Theodore Piper, Francesca Small, Sam Brown, Michael Kelleher, Luke Mitcheson, James Rucker, Allan H. Young, John Marsden   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design for validation: An approach to systems validation [PDF]

Every complex system built is validated in some manner. Computer validation begins with review of the system design. As systems became too complicated for one person to review, validation began to rely on the application of adhoc methods by many ...
Carter, William C., Dunham, Janet R., Howden, William, Laprie, Jean-Claude, Lewis, Carl M., Smith, Brian, Williams, Thomas   +6 more
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Power, costs, collective action, bargaining, and solidarity

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Some argue that the more costly it would be to exercise one's power over an issue, the less power one inherently has over it. I challenge this thesis with two major objections—one conceptual, the other practical or explanatory—contending that costs influence issue‐power not inherently but contingently in specifically strategic contexts.
Arash Abizadeh
wiley   +1 more source

Using Axiomatic Design and Fuzzy Axiomatic Design for Risk Management in Software Development

IEEE Access
The software development process is a type of structural approach, also called the software development life cycle, that includes many different steps including planning, requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance,
Taner Behcet Kepkep, Alptekin Durmusoglu, Turkay Dereli   +2 more
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The degree of cooperativism in Europe: Towards an evaluation model for cooperative banking

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracy, social commitment and proximity are fundamental values of cooperative‐based financial institutions. The degree of cooperativism of an entity (or, by extension, of a territorial area or country) can be associated with the intensity with which the entity promotes the inherent values of cooperatives.
Francisco Salas‐Molina, Juan Juliá‐Igual, Ricardo Palomo‐Zurdo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A wide-spectrum language for verification of programs on weak memory models

, 2018
Modern processors deploy a variety of weak memory models, which for efficiency reasons may (appear to) execute instructions in an order different to that specified by the program text. The consequences of instruction reordering can be complex and subtle,
C Morgan, C Morgan, CAR Hoare, CB Jones, DJ Sorin, EW Dijkstra, IJ Hayes, J Alglave, J Alglave, M Clavel, P Sewell, R Milner, RJ Back, RJ Colvin, S Mador-Haim, S Mador-Haim, S Sarkar, Shaked Flur, SV Adve   +18 more
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