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Reducing the quality risk of elderly care services in government procurement from market-oriented private providers through ex ante policy design: lessons from the principal-agent theory analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Government procurement of elderly care services from market-oriented private providers has become an important way to respond to the growing demands of elderly care. However, the government cannot accurately identify the actual quality efforts
Huan Song, Sihang Yu, Tao Sun
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Justification of category procurement strategy implementation at uranium mining enterprises

Горные науки и технологии, 2020
The study relevance is supported by the following: the need to improve procurement activities in accordance with the tasks set by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which indicate the need for radical revision of approaches to procurement in ...
B. K. Kosmuratov
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OntOMat: Toward Ontology‐Based Product and Process Design Engineering and Optimization Solutions Fueling Circular Value Chains

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The OntOMat ontology establishes a structured framework for polymer matrix fiber reinforced composite materials, integrating manufacturing processes, characterization methods, and multiscale design through the VDI/VDE 3682 formalized process description standard.
Nicolas Christ, Jörg Hohe, Martin Kördel, Michael Giese, Niklas Toffert, Christian Seidel, Olaf Rehme, Patrik Schneider, Oliver Focke, Elie Abi Aoun, Claas Falldorf, Beñat Gutierrez, Alexandra Kühn, Sven Torstrick-von der Lieth, Christoph Herden, Erik Johannsen, Jan‐Uwe R. Schmidt, Felix Winkelmann, Andreas Schott, Daniel Schott   +19 more
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Leaftronics: Bio‐Fractal Scaffolds From Leaf Venation for Low‐Waste Electronics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Leaftronics” transforms naturally evolved leaf venation into quasi‐fractal scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Polymer‐infiltrated leaf skeletons can be used to fabricate ultra‐smooth, reflow‐ and thin‐film‐compatible decomposable substrates, while making the same lignocellulose networks conducting results in flexible transparent electrodes.
Rakesh Rajendran Nair, Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran, Karl Leo, Hans Kleemann   +3 more
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FACTORS AFFECTING EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge
Globally, public procurement has been used as a tool to support small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) due to the important role they play in the economy. SMEs participation in every sphere of economic activities including public procurement is one of
Erastus Misheng’u Mwanaumo, Simon Kilaka, Sampa Chisumbe, Ethel Tembo Mwanaumo   +3 more
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Buying With Intent: Public Procurement for Innovation by Provincial and Municipal Governments

The School of Public Policy Publications, 2020
Innovation is a major driver of economic progress and a seemingly perpetual struggle for Canada. Supply-side innovation policies like research funding, tax credits and R&D subsidies have not delivered the expected results.
Daria Crisan
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Universal Battery Capacity Degradation Forecasting Driven by Foundation Models Across Diverse Chemistries and Conditions

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A unified time‐series forecasting framework learns transferable battery capacity‐degradation patterns from 20 heterogeneous datasets spanning chemistries, formats, temperatures, and cycling conditions. A single model delivers competitive predictions on both known and previously unseen datasets, while physics‐guided representation learning improves ...
Joey Chan, Huan Wang, Zhen Chen, Haoyu Pan, Wei Wu, Zirong Wang, Ershun Pan, Min Xie, Lifeng Xi   +8 more
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How market-based policy instruments can lead the green development transition: the impact of government green procurement on corporate green innovation

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
To establish a novel pattern of ecological civilization featuring harmonious coexistence between humans and nature and to achieve a green transition in economic development, both the impetus from corporate green innovation and the guidance from market ...
Weihua Cheng, Haifeng Jiang, Hengkai Zhao   +2 more
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Autonomous Solar Metallurgy for High‐Purity Gold Recovery from Electronic Waste

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by microbial strategies for metal uptake and biomineralization, defect‐rich copper sulfide (Cu31S16) functions as a solar metallurgical platform that unifies Au(III) capture, reduction, and self‐separation. The bioinspired design enables ultrafast gold recovery from electronic‐waste leachates and the spontaneous formation of millimeter‐scale ...
Chaopeng Liu, Jiajun Li, Jialin Ruan, Wei Zhang, Wei Sun, Hongmei Li, Lei Xie, Min Liu   +7 more
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Government Procurement and Corporate Green Innovation: Evidence from Dual Machine Learning

SAGE Open
This study employs a dual machine learning model to examine the influence of government procurement on corporate green innovation and its underlying mechanisms. We utilize data on listed Chinese companies from 2015 to 2022.
Shu Guan, Mingshan Li
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