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Price Premiums for Single‐Name and Compound‐Name Geographical Indications in Swiss Cheese Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geographical indications (GIs) have become increasingly important in agri‐food markets, especially in Europe. For Swiss cheese imports and exports, we analyze whether GIs are associated with higher trade prices. We find that price premiums can be obtained for both exports and imports. However, this is only the case for cheeses with single name
Judith Irek
wiley   +1 more source

The Myth of Superiority of American Encryption Products [PDF]

, 1998
Encryption software and hardware use sophisticated mathematical algorithms to encipher a message so that only the intended recipient may read it. Fearing that criminals and terrorists will use encryption to evade authorities, the United States now ...
Henry B. Wolfe
core  

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, 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

Traceability of Agri‐Food Products: The Key to Conscious Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Globalization and growing concerns about sustainability have led to improvements in product traceability, quality, and sustainability. Traceability contributes to environmental protection and supports sustainable development by fostering transparency in agricultural practices and encouraging the responsible use of resources.
Scarlett Queen Almeida Bispo, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Michelle Márcia Viana Martins, Marcelo José Braga Nonnenberg, Ruan da Silva Vianna, Carla Cristina Passos Cruz   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Actual and Purported Origin in e‐Commerce Wine Pricing: Evidence From Italian and French Names on Labels

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi, Amir Maghssudipour, Gianluca Stefani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Re-visiting the One-Time Pad

, 2005
In 1949, Shannon proved the perfect secrecy of the Vernam cryptographic system,also popularly known as the One-Time Pad (OTP). Since then, it has been believed that the perfectly random and uncompressible OTP which is transmitted needs to have a length ...
Nagaraj, Nithin, Vaidya, Prabhakar G, Vaidya, Vivek   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unpacking Blockchains

, 2017
The Bitcoin digital currency appeared in 2009. Since this time, researchers and practitioners have looked under the hood of the open source Bitcoin currency, and discovered that Bitcoins Blockchain software architecture is useful for non-monetary ...
Prpić, J.
core  

Dual-band complex-amplitude metasurface empowered high security cryptography with ultra-massive encodable patterns

Nanophotonics
The significance of a cryptograph method lies in its ability to provide high fidelity, high security, and large capacity. The emergence of metasurface-empowered cryptography offers a promising alternative due to its unparalleled wavefront modulation ...
Gu Zhen, Xie Rensheng, Liu Haoyang, Liu Yiting, Wang Xiong, Zhang Hualiang, Gao Jianjun, Si Liming, Chen Shuqi, Ding Jun   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of Anal Fistula Cancer in Patients Who Underwent Surgery: A Nationwide Observational Study Using Diagnosis Procedure Combination Data

Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
The characteristics of patients with anal fistula cancer included a higher proportion of men, younger age, more smokers, and tumor‐related characteristics, including more advanced local progression. Surgical characteristics included a lower rate of minimally invasive surgery, a higher proportion of total pelvic exenterations, and longer postoperative ...
Nobuaki Hoshino, Hiromitsu Kinoshita, Kazutaka Obama, Kiyohide Fushimi, Susumu Kunisawa, Yuichi Imanaka   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source