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Outsourcing total plant maintenance in Singapore petrochemical industry:a critical perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
There are many books suggesting the many benefits of outsourcing. A survey carried out in 2002 on twenty-four companies in the Singapore petrochemical industry showed that only about 10% of the companies outsourced total plant maintenance. Therefore, the
Kong, Chan Nam
core  

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

An efficient outsourced attribute-based encryption scheme in the device-to-device mobile network

open access: yesInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2019
Device-to-device communication is considered as one of the hopeful technologies for proximal communication, which plays a vital role in the wireless systems and 5G cellular networks.
Huawei Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protecting genomic data analytics in the cloud: state of the art and opportunities

open access: yesBMC Medical Genomics, 2016
The outsourcing of genomic data into public cloud computing settings raises concerns over privacy and security. Significant advancements in secure computation methods have emerged over the past several years, but such techniques need to be rigorously ...
Haixu Tang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Securely Outsource Modular Exponentiations With Single Untrusted Cloud Server

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Modular exponentiation is one of the most fundamental operations in lots of encryption and signature systems. Due to the heavy computation cost of modular exponentiation, many schemes have been put forward to securely outsource modular exponentiation to ...
Dezhi An, Yan Li, Shengcai Zhang, Jun Lu
doaj   +1 more source

Substring-searchable attribute-based encryption and its application for IoT devices

open access: yesDigital Communications and Networks, 2021
With the development of big data and cloud computing technology, more and more users choose to store data on cloud servers, which brings much convenience to their management and use of data, and also the risk of data leakage.
Xi Sun   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Scalable and Soundness Verifiable Outsourcing Computation in Marine Mobile Computing

open access: yes, 2017
Outsourcing computation with verifiability is a merging notion in cloud computing, which enables lightweight clients to outsource costly computation tasks to the cloud and efficiently check the correctness of the result in the end.
Lifei Wei   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revocation in Publicly Verifiable Outsourced Computation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The combination of software-as-a-service and the increasing use of mobile devices gives rise to a considerable difference in computational power between servers and clients. Thus, there is a desire for clients to outsource the evaluation of complex functions to an external server. Servers providing such a service may be rewarded per computation, and as
James Alderman   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Prevalence of MSI‐H/dMMR Colorectal Cancer in Japan: Data From the Clinical Study Group of the University of Osaka‐Colorectal Registry

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Using a multicenter Japanese colorectal cancer cohort from 25 institutions, we analyzed 1464 patients across all disease stages and tumor locations to determine the prevalence and clinicopathological features of MSI‐H/dMMR colorectal cancer. MSI‐H/dMMR tumors accounted for 9.4% of cases overall, were present in 22% of right‐sided colon cancers, and ...
Yoshihiro Morimoto   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

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