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Outsourcing: Assessment of The Experience of its Use at Russian Enterprises

Вестник Российского экономического университета имени Г. В. Плеханова, 2020
In industrialized countries outsourcing is widely used and its volume is constantly increasing. In Russia foreign companies and joint ventures use it regularly, while home corporations do not usually trust this business-model.
L. I. Kochurova, E. I. Kharlampenkov, Yu. N. Kleshchevskiy, S. L. Engel, V. V. Andreev   +4 more
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The peculiarities and procedures of the transition to outsourcing by construction companies in Ukraine [PDF]

Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2017
The article analyzes the outsourcing services market and its consumption volumes in the recent years, assesses the industry range of outsourcing by paying close attention to the construction services companies, and evaluates the general trend in the ...
Tetiana Danyliuk, Liubov Lipych, Oleksandr Tovsteniuk, Myroslava Kushnir, Serhii Voitovych   +4 more
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Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Optical Flow Estimation via Contrastive Learning

IEEE Access
To address the issues of dataset dependency and correlation volume redundancy in optical flow estimation, contrastive learning is introduced to build a self supervised optical flow framework.
Feng An, Wenyin Tao
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Feature Interaction Dual Self-attention network for sequential recommendation

Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Combining item feature information helps extract comprehensive sequential patterns, thereby improving the accuracy of sequential recommendations. However, existing methods usually combine features of each item using a vanilla attention mechanism.
Yunfeng Zhu, Shuchun Yao, Xun Sun
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Backpropagation Through Soft Body: Investigating Information Processing in Brain–Body Coupling Systems

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This study explores how information processing is distributed between brains and bodies through a codesign approach. Using the “backpropagation through soft body” framework, brain–body coupling agents are developed and analyzed across several tasks in which output is generated through the agents’ physical dynamics.
Hiroki Tomioka, Katsuma Inoue, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Kohei Nakajima   +3 more
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DSPE-ViT: a lightweight vision transformer with dynamic sparse positional encoding for dense small object detection in UAV imagery

Frontiers in Neurorobotics
BackgroundDetecting densely distributed small objects in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial imagery poses a persistent challenge in computer vision. Vision Transformers (ViTs), empowered by global self-attention, perform strongly in object detection ...
Liya Cai, Shuping Li
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Determinants of Outsourcing Satisfaction: The Case of Slovenian SMEs

Economic and Business Review, 2017
In contrast to large firms, small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) face different kind of challenges in outsourcing. The existing research on SMEs’ outsourcing is sparse and inconclusive.
Tadej Smogavec, Darja Peljhan
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GATA4‐Driven Transcription of HtrA1 Promotes Cellular Senescence in Ménière's Disease and Age‐Related Audio‐Vestibular Dysfunction

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study identifies the HDAC6/GATA4/HtrA1 axis as a critical driver of cellular senescence in the inner ear. GATA4 nuclear translocation, facilitated by HDAC6 downregulation, transcriptionally activates HtrA1, promoting hair cell senescence, SASP, and audio‐vestibular dysfunction in models of Ménière's disease and age‐related audio‐vestibular ...
Na Zhang, Na Li, Yan Wang, Jing Zhang, Jiahui Liu, Lei Chen, Yongdong Song, Yurong Mu, Yuechen Han, Yafeng Lyu, Xiaofei Li, Hanyue Wang, Jing Wang, Yao Lu, Zhaomin Fan, Daogong Zhang, Haibo Wang   +16 more
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Multi-granularity contrastive learning model for next POI recommendation

Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to predict the next POI for users from their historical activities. Existing methods typically rely on location-level POI check-in trajectories to explore user sequential transition patterns, which suffer ...
Yunfeng Zhu, Shuchun Yao, Xun Sun
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Examining the popularity trajectory of outsourcing as a management concept [PDF]

Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2017
This paper examines the popularity trajectory of outsourcing as a management concept. The paper shows that while outsourcing is an old management practice that has roots that date back centuries, it did not gain widespread popularity as a modern ...
Dag Øivind Madsen
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