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Racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality across Michigan, United States
Background: Black populations in the United States are being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the increased mortality burden after accounting for health and other demographic characteristics is not well understood.
Alyssa S. Parpia +9 more
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Modelling the Service Sector [PDF]
In the wake of the financial crisis output fell dramatically while inflation remained above its target and productivity collapsed relative to its previous trend. The fall in productivity relative to trend was particularly pronounced within the service sector, and then most particularly in certain subsectors such as ‘Professional, Scientific and ...
Philip King, Stephen Millard
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Extreme droughts have a strong impact on agricultural production. In France, the 2003 drought generated records of yield losses at a national scale for grassland (more than 30%) and for cereals (more than 10% for soft winter wheat and winter barley ...
Dorothée Kapsambelis +4 more
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Model Driven Service Composition [PDF]
The current standards for web service composition, e.g. BPEL. neither cater for dynamic service composition nor for dynamic business configuration. Our firm belief is that business processes can be built dynamically by composing web services in a model driven fashion where the design process is controlled and governed by a series of business rules.
Orriëns, B., Yang, J., Papazoglou, M.
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Cloud Services Pricing Models [PDF]
A major condition for commercial success is a well-defined pricing strategy, however, cloud service providers face many challenges around pricing. Clearness and transparency in pricing is beneficial for all the actors in the ecosystem, where the currently existing abundance of different pricing models makes decision making difficult for service ...
Laatikainen Gabriella +2 more
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Modeling Requirements for Collaborative Robotic Services
Collaborative robots have experienced low acceptance in applications, especially in industry. This fact has attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners, who point to different causes for this limited acceptance.
Oscar Stiven Morales Zapata +3 more
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Modeling cultural ecosystem services (Case study: Recreational Ecosystem Services in Behbahan county) [PDF]
Extended abstractIntroduction: Goods and services that are provided by ecosystems in favorable environmental conditions, for the welfare of humans, are called ecosystem services.
Fatemeh Mohammadyari +2 more
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Differential mechanisms underlying responses of soil bacterial and fungal communities to nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in a subtropical forest [PDF]
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition and phosphorus (P) addition both can change soil bacterial and fungal community structure with a consequent impact on ecosystem functions.
Yong Li +9 more
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Modeling nation-wide U.S. swine movement networks at the resolution of the individual premises
The spread of infectious livestock diseases is a major cause for concern in modern agricultural systems. In the dynamics of the transmission of such diseases, movements of livestock between herds play an important role.
Stefan Sellman +7 more
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Model-Driven Web Service Development [PDF]
Web services are emerging as a promising technology for the effective automation of inter-organizational interactions. However, despite the growing interest, several issues still need to be addressed to provide Web services with benefits similar to what traditional middleware brings to intra-organizational application integration.
K. Baina +3 more
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