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A Contract-Based Spectrum Trading Scheme for Cognitive Radio Networks Enabling Hybrid Access

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2015
The latest trends in spectrum trading allow secondary users (SUs) to employ hybrid access models and exploit bandwidth employing either opportunistic spectrum access or exclusive spectrum access of vacant frequency bands (FBs) leased for exclusive usage.
Angeliki V. Kordali, Panayotis G. Cottis
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Power and selection of contract terms: The case from the Brazilian orange juice sector

open access: yesRAUSP: Revista de Administração da Universidade de São Paulo, 2016
We propose a model to explain how contract terms are selected in the presence of a form of economic power: contract power. The orange juice sector is used to illustrate an analysis that demonstrates the effects of contract power on the economic ...
Nobuiuki Costa Ito, Decio Zylbersztajn
doaj   +1 more source

Managing contractual uncertainty for drinking water services in rural Mali

open access: yesEcology and Society
Contracts allocate rights, obligations, and risks between various parties to achieve specific results. In response to slow progress to deliver safe drinking water to rural populations, governments across Africa are increasingly introducing contracts with
Johannes Wagner   +2 more
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Partnership Development of Smallholder Coffee Cultivation: A Model for Social Capital in the Global Value Chain

open access: yesEconomies
The productivity of smallholder coffee cultivation is declining due to ageing trees, making the rejuvenation of coffee trees with superior seeds essential.
Adi Haryono   +4 more
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Understanding Theoretical Aspects of Outsourcing: Common Features and Discrepancies Between Transaction Costs Economics and Contractual Incompleteness

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management, 2022
Outsourcing is a phenomenon regularly explored through two theories: transaction cost economics and incomplete contract theory. The second approach is frequently seen as an extension of the first but is it right to do so?
Quentin Commine
doaj   +1 more source

An Integrated Approach to Pricing Catastrophe Reinsurance

open access: yesRisks, 2017
We propose an integrated approach straddling the actuarial science and the mathematical finance approaches to pricing a default-risky catastrophe reinsurance contract.
Carolyn W. Chang, Jack S. K. Chang
doaj   +1 more source

Screening and epitope characterization of Nidogen‐2‐specific nanobodies

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Camel immunization and phage display were employed to generate high‐affinity VHH nanobodies against Nidogen‐2. After library construction, biopanning, ELISA screening, sequencing, and recombinant expression, selected nanobodies were purified and characterized, leading to the preliminary exploration of a nanobody‐based sandwich ELISA for specific ...
Jianchuan Wen   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Hedging and Pricing of Equity-Linked Life Insurance Contracts in a Discrete-Time Incomplete Market

open access: yesJournal of Probability and Statistics, 2011
We present a method of optimal hedging and pricing of equity-linked life insurance products in an incomplete discrete-time financial market. A pure endowment life insurance contract with guarantee is used as an example.
Norman Josephy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cracking the Code: Genotype–Phenotype Correlation Models in Sarcoglycanopathies

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Sarcoglycanopathies are among the most severe limb‐girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD), though milder presentations have been described. These diseases are primarily caused by missense variants, but the limited predictability of their effect on protein maturation, complex formation, and transport has hindered reliable genotype ...
Leonela Luce   +72 more
wiley   +1 more source

The hybridization of the regulatory framework of Insurance Contract Law: Elements of a new setting [PDF]

open access: yesAnali Pravnog Fakulteta u Beogradu
This article aims to highlight the phenomenon of hybridization of insurance contract law, which started with its emancipation from contract law. The next phase included its internal stratification, stemming from obvious differences between commercial and
Petrović-Tomić Nataša   +1 more
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