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Trade in the Shadow of the Holy War: Medieval East Mediterranean Trades

open access: yesŞarkiyat Mecmuası, 2022
Ahmet Usta, Hilal ile Haç Arasında Hayatlar- Ortaçağ Akdenizi’nde Ticaret ve Tüccarlar, İletişim Yayınları, İstanbul, 2022.
Zafer Saraç
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Traffic Capacity on Mountainous Two Lane Highway Adding Climbing Lane

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2016
During the construction of mountainous double lane highway, climbing lane plays a certain role for enhancing the traffic capacity. In order to explore traffic capacity improvement effect for different conditions of climbing lane, 20 representative models
Meng Yunwei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Private Initiative as a creative factor in transformation of Siberian gold industry: the example of Siberian gold mining entrepreneur Yakov Frizer

open access: yesHistoria provinciae: журнал региональной истории, 2021
The article examines one of the aspects of life and activities of a prominent Siberian gold miner Yakov D. Frizer (1869–1932), Barguzin merchant of the 1st guild, the owner of the majority of private gold mines in Transbaikalia.
Irena Vladimirsky, Maria V. Krotova
doaj   +1 more source

Kalmyks of Astrakhan Governorate in the Early Nineteenth Century: Some Aspects of Everyday Life

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2023
Introduction. The study examines some aspects of everyday life once led by inhabitants of Kalmyk uluses (Astrakhan Governorate). The relevance of the topic arises from the necessity to compile a more complete panorama of Kalmyk life witnessed by the ...
Komandzhaev Alexandr N.   +2 more
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Must-Take Cards: Merchant Discounts and Avoided Costs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Antitrust authorities often argue that merchants cannot reasonably turn down payment cards and therefore must accept excessively high merchant discounts. The paper attempts to shed light on this “must-take cards” view from two angles.
ROCHET, Jean Charles, TIROLE, Jean
core   +1 more source

MERCHANT TRANSMISSION INVESTMENT* [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Industrial Economics, 2003
We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent set of assumptions, the merchant investment model appears to solve the natural monopoly problem and the ...
Joskow, Paul L., Tirole, Jean
openaire   +5 more sources

Comparative Study on Alternative Umbilical Cable Configurations for Deep-Sea Mining System

open access: yesJournal of Marine Science and Engineering
The umbilical cable plays a critical role in deep-sea mining systems by connecting the surface support vessel to the mining vehicle. If the spatial configuration of the umbilical cable is unsuitable for mining vehicle operations, it may experience ...
Wen Shen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community Enforcement of Informal Contracts: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The diamond industry is home to many unusual features: the predominance of an ethnically homogeneous community of merchants, the norm of intergenerational family businesses, and a rejection of public courts in favor of private contract enforcement.
Richman, Barak D.
core   +1 more source

Long‐Tea‐CLIP: An Expert‐Level Multimodal AI Framework for Fine‐Grained Green Tea Grading Across Five Sensory Dimensions

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Long‐Tea‐CLIP (Contrastive Language‐Image Pre‐training) presents a multimodal AI framework that integrates visual, metabolomic, and sensory knowledge to grade green tea across appearance, soup color, aroma, taste, and infused leaf. By combining expert‐guided modeling with CLIP‐supervised learning, the system delivers fine‐grained quality evaluation and
Yanqun Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Community Institutions Create Economic Advantage: Jewish Diamond Merchants in New York [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper argues that Jewish merchants have historically dominated the diamond industry because of their ability to reliably implement diamond credit sales.
Richman, Barak D.
core   +1 more source

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