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MESURE Tool to benchmark Java Card platforms
, 2009 The advent of the Java Card standard has been a major turning point in smart card technology. With the growing acceptance of this standard, understanding the performance behavior of these platforms is becoming crucial.
Bouzefrane, Samia +2 more
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Aggregate productivity effect of labour and capital market distortions in Canada
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract How efficiently are workers, investment capital, and production distributed across firms in Canada? And how have they varied over time, across regions, and between sectors? To answer these questions, we present novel measures of the degree of resource misallocation over time and space using uniquely detailed firm‐level data (T2‐LEAP) between ...
Yu Chen, Trevor Tombe
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A newly conceived cylinder measuring machine and methods that eliminate the spindle errors [PDF]
, 2012 Advanced manufacturing processes require improving dimensional metrology applications to reach a nanometric accuracy level. Such measurements may be carried out using conventional highly accurate roundness measuring machines.
DAMAK, Mohamed +4 more
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Environmentally adjusted productivity growth and shadow prices for dairy farms
Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the environmentally adjusted productivity growth and shadow price for Ontario dairy farms. We use an input‐oriented directional distance function and farm‐level data from 2000 to 2020. First, we find that while GHG emissions per cow increase with higher milk yields, emission intensity decreases as milk yield per cow increases.
Bibek Dahal +2 more
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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EPPO Bulletin, EarlyView.Abstract The presence of Thrips parvispinus (Karny, 1922) is reported for the first time in Italy. Prior to this finding, within Europe the pest was only known to be established in Spain. The discovery happened in a greenhouse cultivating gerberas in south‐eastern Sicily, a region recognized as Italy's primary and one of Europe's most important ...
Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza +2 more
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Mesure et Évaluation en Éducation, 2001 La mesure en sciences humaines, bien que largement répandue et pratiquée, a mauvaise presse chez les théoriciens et fait souvent figure d’enfant pauvre à côté de la mesure instrumentale qu’on retrouve dans les sciences physiques et biologiques.
Louis Laurencelle, Jim O. Ramsay
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Genetic and Ecological Management of Pacific Salmon Fisheries for the 21st Century
Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ecological adaptation theory, tremendous effort is being spent on measures that are eliminating salmon hatcheries and fishing opportunities with the intention of protecting wild runs deemed to be of particular genetic importance to the survival of the species.
Randall E. Brummett +2 more
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« Un néant follement attifé » : macabre et grotesque dans Mesure pour Mesure
Sillages Critiques, 2013 In an anamorphic play such as Measure for Measure, the grotesque is endowed with a strong satirical power, and its close relation to the macabre makes it even stronger. Shakespeare actually depicts a dramatic vanitas and places the morbid at the heart of
Sophie Chiari
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that prison officers often provide practical and emotional assistance to inmates. However, this has generally been depicted as a discretionary, conflicted and unrewarded task, sometimes met with hostility from their peers.
Cristina Güerri
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