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Blockchain and Food Trust: Will Consumers Pay More?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blockchain is increasingly used in agri‐food supply chains to make products more transparent and trustworthy. Yet, in countries like Italy, where certifications such as PDO, PGI, and organic labels already shape consumer confidence, its added value is still unclear.
Federico Modica, Filippo Sgroi, Giusi Giamporcaro, Caterina Sciortino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain for local communities: an exploratory review of token economy aspects

Frontiers in Blockchain
Blockchain for local communities are blockchain-based applications that support the participation of people in the social and economic life of their local community.
Irene Domenicale, Cristina Viano, Cristina Viano, Claudio Schifanella   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unnatural Causes: Cryptocurrencies, Carbon Credits, and the rise of Neoliberalism from Below

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Klima is a carbon‐backed cryptocurrency running as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). In 2021, it had accumulated 9 million metric tons of digital carbon credits and reached a market value of more than US$1 billion. In 2023, its treasury stored twice as many carbon credits, but its spot price was a tiny fraction compared to 2021 ...
Riccardo De Cristano, Alexander Paulsson
wiley   +1 more source

Central Bank Digital Currencies, Financial Inclusion, and Privacy: A Normative Perspective

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are a digital form of a nation's money, issued by its central bank. As opposed to other forms of digital money, such as electronic bank balances or cryptocurrencies, they are centrally managed legal tender.
Andrew Allison, Alexander William Salter
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic Learning and Pedagogy Through a Modular, Progressive‐Based Simulation Modeling Framework for Complex Systems

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart Transportation Systems (SmTS) will exceed complex systems with their classification as complex, sociotechnical, and AI‐based systems. Possessing a toolkit that helps systemically understand, analyze, and assess these systems will be advantageous in the early stages of the systems engineering (SE) lifecycle, and Agent Based Models (ABMs ...
Ifezue V. Obiako, Sean B. Walker, Kari J. Lippert, Robert J. Cloutier   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Future tourism trends: Virtual Reality based tourism utilizing Distributed Ledger Technologies. [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2018
Tourism destinations are always seeking new and innovative ways to better market tourism offerings and increase tourism revenues. This paper seeks to highlight a future tourism marketing trend through the use of virtual environments (VE) backed by ...
Nyane Ezekiel Macdonald Mofokeng, Thapeli Kenny Matima   +1 more
doaj  

Technology‐Enabled Cross‐Border Entrepreneurship: The Role of Digital Platforms in SME Expansion Through the Lens of Institutional Theory

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) face significant institutional barriers when expanding across borders, including regulatory constraints, financial accessibility issues, and market entry challenges. Institutional theory provides a useful framework for understanding how external regulative, normative, and cognitive institutional forces
Sharmin Nahar, Muntasir Alam
wiley   +1 more source

Decentralized BIM Workflows with Smart Contract Execution

Applied Sciences
The integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM), blockchain technology, and smart contracts presents a significant opportunity to fundamentally reevaluate the administration of information and contracts in construction projects.
Sara Antinozzi, Liliana Cecere, Francesco Colace, Angelo Lorusso, Domenico Santaniello, Carmine Valentino   +5 more
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Data privacy model using blockchain reinforcement federated learning approach for scalable internet of medical things

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Shayla Islam, Shailesh Khapre, Salwani Abdullah, Taher M. Ghazal, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, Nasser Alalwan, Nguyen Vo, Md Akhtaruzzaman   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Too Much of a Good Thing? Striking a Balance Between Research Environment Inputs and Research Output Quality in UK Business Schools

British Journal of Management, EarlyView.
Abstract The UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) is one of the world's most established performance‐based research funding systems, shaping universities’ strategic choices. While the REF emphasizes investing in research inputs to enhance output quality, the investments in research environment inputs can, at some point, become counterproductive and
Vasilis Theoharakis, Georgios Batsakis
wiley   +1 more source