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IOTA-Based Distributed Ledger in the Mining Industry: Efficiency, Sustainability and Transparency. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel)
Gligoric N   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From Audit to Prosecution: Institutional Collaboration as a Solution to Closing the Expectations Gap in Decentralized Governance

open access: yesFinancial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A long‐standing topic of concern in the literature on governmental auditing is whether the aims of Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) or other central audit institutions should include detecting fraudulent use of public money. The balance of opinion has been against this proposition, largely for reasons of infeasibility.
Michael Barzelay, Sérgio N. Seabra
wiley   +1 more source

Coordination Techniques for Distributed Artificial Intelligence

open access: yes, 1996
Coordination, the process by which an agent reasons about its local actions and the (anticipated) actions of others to try and ensure the community acts in a coherent manner, is perhaps the key problem of the discipline of Distributed Artificial ...
Jennings, N. R., Jennings, NR
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Decoding beautiful ageing in the boomer generation: Insights from a cross‐generational study with American women

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cosmetic Science, EarlyView.
The study examined ageing perceptions among older American women of the ‘Boomer’ population. Ratings of photographs of adults aged 60–70 showed no major differences between younger and older evaluators, indicating shared perceptions with varying intensity. Most clinical signs correlated negatively with attractiveness.
Frederic Flament   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clustering All‐Cause Mortality Data: A Review

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary Mortality data are relevant to demography, public health and actuarial science; such data are high‐dimensional, making broad patterns difficult to identify. Clustering is increasingly used to reveal such patterns, yet a review of its application to all‐cause mortality with a focus on country‐level data is lacking.
Pedro Menezes de Araújo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kathy Oberst Ledger interview, 10 July 2017

open access: yes, 2017
Kathy Oberst Ledger was born in New York and moved as a child to the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood. Ledger recalls when Detroit Shoreway. After getting married she moved to the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, which she recalls had a large Appalachian ...

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Emerging Resistance in the Digital Transformation of Public Transport: Older Passengers With Dementia and Experiences of Ecobiographical Disruption

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The digital transformation of public transport is prone to resistance. Among the discontents of such transformation, older people and those living with cognitive impairments are repeatedly identified. Stereotypes assuming their innate resistance to technological change are widespread, but research shows that older people with dementia can have
James Rupert Fletcher
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
wiley   +1 more source

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