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Outsourcing in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences; a before and after study

open access: yesJournal of the Egyptian Public Health Association, 2019
Background Outsourcing is a kind of participation between public and private sector. This should be monitored and supervised to enhance the quality of outsourced services and to prevent new problems in this area.
Omid Barati   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

PPT-LBS: Privacy-preserving top-k query scheme for outsourced data of location-based services

open access: yesCyber Security and Applications, 2023
Location-based service (LBS) is enjoying a great popularity with the fast growth of mobile Internet. As the volume of data increases dramatically, an increasing number of location service providers (LSPs) are moving LBS data to cloud platforms for ...
Yousheng Zhou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outsourcing and offshoring of business services: how important is ICT? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper considers the impact that information and communication technology (ICT) has on firms' choices over organisational form. In particular, the decision over whether to produce in-house or outsource services, and the decision over the location of ...
Abramovsky, L., Griffith, R.
core   +1 more source

Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sharing Privacy Protected and Statistically Sound Clinical Research Data Using Outsourced Data Storage

open access: yesJournal of Applied Mathematics, 2014
It is critical to scientific progress to share clinical research data stored in outsourced generally available cloud computing services. Researchers are able to obtain valuable information that they would not otherwise be able to access; however, privacy
Geontae Noh, Ji Young Chun, Ik Rae Jeong
doaj   +1 more source

Publicly Verifiable and Efficient Fine-Grained Data Deletion Scheme in Cloud Computing

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Cloud storage, one of the most attractive services offered by cloud computing, can provide users with boundless storage capacity. Thus, users can outsource their data to the cloud server for greatly saving local storage overhead.
Changsong Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A weighted decision matrix for outsourcing library services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
A study, funded by Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, was undertaken in 2000-2001 to give an up-to-date view of the current experience of outsourcing and externalization in libraries, museums and archives.
Ball, David
core   +2 more sources

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Integrity and Confidentiality in Cloud Outsourced Data

open access: yesAin Shams Engineering Journal, 2019
Cloud services have become an increasingly popular solution to provide different services to clients. One of the cloud services is database as a service (DBaaS), in which the service provider offers different resources such as software, hardware and ...
Mai Rady, Tamer Abdelkader, Rasha Ismail
doaj   +1 more source

Outsourcing as a Challenge for Achieving Competitive Advantage in Road Freight Industry – The Case of Croatia

open access: yesPromet (Zagreb), 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore outsourcing as a possible source of competitive advantage for road freight operators, with the empirical research directed towards the road freight transportation sector.
Dora Naletina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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