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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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Cape Town's municipal services a century ago

Contree
Conditions in Cape Town in the 1880s left much to be desired, especially when one looks at it from the city engineer's point of view. A boom town at that stage with a total population of approximately 40 000, Cape Town offered few of the amenities ...
Ralph Taylor
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Local Government Action and Antitrust Policy: An Economic Analysis [PDF]

, 1984
At least partly as a result of the Supreme Court decision in Community Communications Co. v. City of Boulder, cities are facing antitrust challenges to their rights to franchise cable television systems.
Brennan, Timothy J., Brennan, Timothy J., Brennan, Timothy J., Brennan, Timothy J.   +3 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
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Private services vs. municipal regulations [PDF]

Journal of Advanced Transportation, 1991
The purpose of this review is to broaden the discussion by exploring the common genesis of the endeavors and the similarities in the environments in which they operate. A comparative analysis between situations in Third World and First World cities is made, under the premise that transportation needs are about the same.
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Cost Structures on Municipal Services [PDF]

, 1989
都市公共サービスの費用を決定する要因としては， C.シャウプ〔9〕の詳細な分析にみられるように，人口，面積（地域），人口密度，サービス水準が主要な要因としてあげられるが，実際には都市ごとにそれぞれの要因が異なること，またそれらの要因が複雑に絡み合って費用を決定していることにより，費用関数の推定はそれ程容易な問題ではない。しかし，都市の効率的規模の設定を前提にすれば，供給側の条件を明らかにする上で，公共サービスの費用関数を推定することが要請される。そこで本稿では，予備的考察として，一般行政サービス ...
古田 俊吉
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Seeing Through the Face: Robust Facial Diagnosis Enhanced by Landmark Detection and Pose Normalization

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study proposes a robust, generalizable new approach for facial type diagnosis. Based on landmark detection and pose normalization, a 94.7% diagnostic accuracy is achieved by Combined Heatmap Regression and Coordinate Regression network. This research makes the AI‐generated preliminary diagnosis more interpretable and reducing the impact of ...
Qianyang Xie, Zixian Jiao, Guo Bai, Huimin Zhu, Dahe Zhang, Hui Li, Haixia Lu, Xin Nie, Qing Li, Duohong Zou, Zhiguo Yin, Peilun Li, Chi Yang   +12 more
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IAR‐Net: Tabular Deep Learning Model for Interventionalist's Action Recognition

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This study presents IAR‐Net, a deep‐learning framework for catheterization action recognition. To ensure optimality, this study quantifies interoperator similarities and differences using statistical tests, evaluates the distribution fidelity of synthetic data produced by six generative models, and benchmarks multiple deep‐learning models.
Toluwanimi Akinyemi, Olatunji Omisore, Wenjing Du, Wenke Duan, Chen Bailang, Liu Kun, Lei Wang, Minxin Wei   +7 more
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Measuring the efficiency in spanish municipal refuse collection services [PDF]

The objective of this study is to analyse the technical or productive efficiency of the refuse collection services in 75 municipalities located in the Spanish region of Catalonia. The analysis has been carried out using various techniques.
Francisco Pedraja, Javier Suarez Pandiello, Nuria Bosch Roca   +2 more
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Roadmap on Artificial Intelligence‐Augmented Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This Roadmap outlines the transformative role of artificial intelligence‐augmented additive manufacturing, highlighting advances in design, monitoring, and product development. By integrating tools such as generative design, computer vision, digital twins, and closed‐loop control, it presents pathways toward smart, scalable, and autonomous additive ...
Ali Zolfagharian, Liuchao Jin, Qi Ge, Wei‐Hsin Liao, Andrés Díaz Lantada, Francisco Franco Martínez, Tianyu Zhang, Tao Liu, Charlie C. L. Wang, Mohammad Hossein Mosallanejad, Reza Ghanavati, Abdollah Saboori, Alejandro De Blas De Miguel, William Solórzano‐Requejo, Yi Cai, Xiangyang Dong, Huangyi Qu, Najmeh Samadiani, Guangyan Huang, Austin Downey, Yanzhou Fu, Lang Yuan, Tsz‐Kwan (Glory) Lee, Arbind Agrahari Baniya, Eisha Waseem, Abdul Rahman Sani, Abbas Z. Kouzani, Yijia Wu, Markus P. Nemitz, Masoud Shirzad, Dageon Oh, Seung Yun Nam, Amedeo Franco Bonatti, Irene Chiesa, Gabriele Maria Fortunato, Giovanni Vozzi, Carmelo De Maria, Mahdi Bodaghi   +37 more
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