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A Privacy Preserving Distributed Ledger Framework for Global Human Resource Record Management: The Blockchain Aspect

, 2020
Blockchain is a technology used with the series of users in peer-to-peer transactions to utilize the usability properties of the immutable data records. The distributed nature of this technology has given the wide acceptance to its range of applications ...
Thomas, Reji, Saha, Rahul, Kumar, Gulshan, Buchanan, William J, Rai, Mritunjay Kumar, Alazab, Mamoun, Kim, Tai-Hoon   +6 more
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Host, vector, and parasite dynamics: exploring intrinsic and extrinsic factors shaping tick‐borne filarial nematode transmission

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tick‐borne filarial nematodes are a complex and understudied group of parasites that rely on ticks for transmission in vertebrates. This review examines how intrinsic and extrinsic factors may influence the successful transmission of filarial nematodes in tick vectors, drawing insights from extensively studied haematophagous dipteran vector ...
Oluwaseun D. Ajileye, Gabriel L. Hamer, Sarah A. Hamer, Guilherme G. Verocai, Jessica E. Light   +4 more
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Leveraging blockchain technology for innovative climate finance under the Green Climate Fund

Earth System Governance, 2021
The rapid development of digital technologies such as blockchain and distributed ledger-based systems holds transformative potential for the financial sector.
Karsten Schulz, Marian Feist
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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard, Joshua I. Brian, Wayne Dawson, Petr Dostál, Franz Essl, Michal Gruntman, Tina Heger, Mark van Kleunen, Mialy Razanajatovo, Lena C. Reimann, Frank M. Schurr, Montserrat Vilà, Florencia A. Yannelli, Marina Golivets   +13 more
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Bitcoin transaction behavior modes exploration based on balance data

EPJ Data Science
When analyzing the balance distribution of Bitcoin users, we found that it follows a log-normal pattern based on a rigorous Uniformly-Most-Powerful-Unbiased test.
Yu Zhang, Yafei Li, Jufang Zhang, Claudio J. Tessone   +3 more
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An Intelligent Path Planning System for Urban Airspace Monitoring: From Infrastructure Assessment to Strategic Optimization

Smart Cities
Urban Air Mobility (UAM) requires reliable communication and surveillance infrastructures to ensure safe Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operations in dense metropolitan environments.
Qianyu Liu, Wei Dai, Zichun Yan, Claudio J. Tessone   +3 more
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SwarmDAG: A Partition Tolerant Distributed Ledger Protocol for Swarm Robotics

, 2019
Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt applications beyond cryptocurrencies. This work applies the concepts of blockchain technology to swarm robotics applications.
Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, Jason A Tran, Palash M Shah, Claudiu B. Danilov, Rodolfo A. Santiago, Bhaskar Krishnamachari   +5 more
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Debunking the Myth: A Dive Into the Role of Relational Capital in Sustainable Food Production Systems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui, Tarik Saikouk, Nejib Fattam, Ahmed Hamdi, Vikas Kumar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Distributed-Ledger, Edge-Computing Architecture for Automation and Computer Integration in Semiconductor Manufacturing

, 2020
Contemporary 300mm semiconductor manufacturing systems have highly automated and digitalized cyber-physical integration. They suffer from the profound problems of integrating large, centralized legacy systems with small islands of automation.
Da-Yin Liao
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Formalizing Distributed Ledger Objects [PDF]

, 2017
In his PODC’2017 keynote address, Maurice Herlihy pointed out that despite the hype about blockchains and distributed ledgers, no formal abstraction of these objects has been proposed.
Georgiou, Chryssis, Nicolaou, Nicolas, Fernández Anta, Antonio   +2 more
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