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Identity-based linear homomorphic signature for a restricted combiners' group for e-commerce. [PDF]

PeerJ Comput Sci
Tian Y, Song W, Zhou T, Hu B, Zhou X, Ding Y, Zhong W, Yang X.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why did Putin invade Ukraine? A theory of degenerate autocracy

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Many dictatorships end up with a series of disastrous decisions such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union or Saddam Hussein's aggression against Kuwait. Even if a certain policy choice is not ultimately fatal for the regime, such as Mao's Big Leap Forward or the Pol Pot's collectivization drive, they typically involve both a miscalculation ...
Georgy Egorov, Konstantin Sonin
wiley   +1 more source

Testing Quantum Satisfiability. [PDF]

Commun Math Phys
Montanaro A, Shao C, Verdon D, Verdon D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Understanding cooperative membership and maize market participation in Rwanda: A Bayesian triple‐hurdle analysis

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Smallholder market participation studies often focus narrowly on selling decisions, overlooking the institutional role of agricultural cooperatives, particularly in contexts like Rwanda, where cooperatives underpin agricultural policy. Consequently, empirical evidence on how cooperative membership shapes farmers’ commercialization across ...
John N. Ng'ombe, Jules Ngango, Aristide Maniriho, Martinson Ankrah Twumasi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of basketballs of international level sports using an intelligent decision algorithm involving multiple experts. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mao C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cross‐border reciprocal bartering in public–private tetradic networks

Decision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Under the background of semiconductor and vaccine shortages during COVID‐19‐driven supply chain disruptions, this article adopts a multimethodological approach to investigate strategic solutions for cross‐border scarce goods bartering in a public–private (P–P) tetradic reciprocal network, which involves two pairs of P–P collaborative dyads ...
Jiuh‐Biing Sheu, Tsan‐Ming Choi, Thomas Y. Choi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robust consensus ordinal priority approach for improvisational emergency supplier selection under expert consensus ambiguity. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mao H, Wang R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Incentive contract design for supplier reliability: The role of asymmetric information on reliability level and improvement costs

Decision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract We study a supply chain subject to supply disruptions, where the supplier can exert costly effort to mitigate the impact of disruptions and improve reliability. The supplier's current reliability level and the cost of improving reliability can each be high or low and are privately known only to the supplier.
Yutian Li, Sammi Y. Tang
wiley   +1 more source

A Construction of Optimal One-Coincidence Frequency-Hopping Sequences via Generalized Cyclotomy. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Shao M, Miao Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Trust and fairness in platform–supplier contracts: Navigating supplier concerns in the sharing economy

Decision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Trust and fairness are critical to the sustainable development of the sharing economy, particularly in platform–supplier relationships, where numerous individual suppliers offer access to their durable assets without transferring ownership. Motivated by the real‐world phenomenon of personalized wages and informed through direct interactions ...
Ying Yin, Xishu Li
wiley   +1 more source