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Security, Privacy, and Linear Function Retrieval in Combinatorial Multi-Access Coded Caching with Private Caches. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Chinnapadamala M, Rajan BS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gatekeeping harm reduction in Canadian Federal Prisons: Perspectives on the threat risk assessment for the prison needle exchange program by prison administrative leadership

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Prison needle exchange programs (PNEPs) are evidence‐based, cost‐effective interventions that prevent transmission of blood‐borne viruses. PNEPs were introduced in a minority of Canadian federal prisons in 2018; however, participation is contingent on a mandatory approval process known as a “Threat Risk Assessment” (TRA ...
Nadine Kronfli, Nashira Popovic, Elise Weiss, Mark Stoové, Lise Lafferty, Olivia Price, Lynn M. Madden, Behzad Hajarizadeh, Andrew R. Lloyd, Frederick L. Altice   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Adaptive Blockchain Framework for Federated IoMT with Reinforcement Learning-Based Consensus and Resource Forecasting. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Murthy CHVNUB, Shri ML.
europepmc   +1 more source

Global agricultural value chains and food prices

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study the relationship between the extent of participation in global agricultural value chains (GAVCs) and food prices at the country level. Using longitudinal data on a sample of 138 countries for the period 2000–2015 and a shift‐share instrumental variable design, we study how the extent of a country's participation in GAVCs in a given ...
Bernhard Dalheimer, Marc F. Bellemare
wiley   +1 more source

Integrating small mammal personality and population abundance into forest regeneration predictions for a managed, mixed species forest in Maine, USA. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Merz MR, Brehm AM, Humphreys BR, Record S, Weiskittel AR, Mortelliti A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Private Land Ownership: Tax or Socialize?

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study compares the land reform concepts of Henry George and Silvio Gesell, both of whom rejected private appropriation of land rent as unjust. While George proposed to “hollow out” private land ownership through a comprehensive land value tax, Gesell aimed at full socialization of land combined with lease auctions and compensation of ...
Dirk Loehr
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape-wide cosmogram built by the early community of Aguada Fénix in southeastern Mesoamerica. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Inomata T, Triadan D, Vázquez López VA, García Hernández M, Fernandez-Diaz JC, Sharpe AE, Alvarado C, Flores A, Ceballos X, Hanson KE, Chen R, Beach T, Omori T, Nasu H, Aoyama K, Yamada K, Kitaba I, Nakagawa T.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do tax havens affect the usage of share buybacks schemes?

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines whether the use of tax haven subsidiaries by U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) is associated with more intense usage of share buybacks. I find that MNCs' more intensive tax haven subsidiary usage is positively associated with a higher buyback ratio, a higher level of free cash flow and a higher level of return on ...
Alessandro Chiari
wiley   +1 more source

AI powered multi feature fusion framework for retrieving images using color, texture and shape descriptors. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Naveen K, Parvathi RMS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Quality from Kent: Preliminary results from the analysis of fifth‐ to seventh‐century silver alloys

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores early results from the chemical and lead isotope analysis of 30 silver‐alloy objects from southeast England dating between the fifth and seventh centuries CE, presenting limited aspects of the three main analyses that were conducted. First, a comparison of the results gained from surface x‐ray fluorescence (pXRF) values and
Toby F. Martin, Matthew J. Ponting
wiley   +1 more source