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Sustainability, 2020 Some U.S. local governments are leveraging public procurement to meet their sustainability goals. However, does the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives potentially slow down the speed of procurement processes?
Justin M. Stritch +4 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A novel “prof” cocktail therapy is designed. It screens antigens, selects personalized antigen panels, engineers optimized CAR‐Vδ1 T cells, and tests in patient‐derived GBM organoids, offering hope for effective CAR‐T drugs against heterogeneous solid tumors. Abstract Various challenges, including tumor heterogeneity and inadequate T cell infiltration,
Guidong Zhu +12 more
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The private finance initiative (PFI) and finance capital: A note on gaps in the "accountability" debate [PDF]
, 2007 During recent years, a wide spectrum of research has questioned whether public services/infrastructure procurement through private finance, as exemplified by the UK Private Finance Initiative (PFI), meets minimum standard of democratic accountability ...
Asenova, D., Beck, M.
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Ways Forward in Public Procurement
, 2023 This chapter summarizes the topics discussed in this public procurementbook. It subsequently discusses developments and the ways in which publicprocurement is moving forward and has increasingly become a strategic asset for societal change. The move toward more value-driven, smart, life cycle-oriented, and relational ecosystem procurement processes has
Grandia, Jolien, Volker, Leentje
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A schematic illustration of the cyanobacteria‐based biohybrid platform for photodynamic cancer therapy enhanced PDT. The platform continuously outputs O2 (to alleviate tumor hypoxia) and 1O2 (for tumor treatment), achieving improved photodynamic immunotherapy. Abstract The interdisciplinary development of synthetic biology and material sciences propels
Zhengwei Xu +14 more
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Blockchain technologies as enablers of supply chain mapping for sustainable supply chains
Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 31, Issue 8, Page 3742-3756, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The advent of blockchain technologies is transmuting the way conventional supply chains are being managed. Due to the complexity of dealing with many actors involved in the supply chain networks, contemporary supply chains have limited visibility, transparency, and accountability.
Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan +5 more
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Bureaucrats and Public Procurement [PDF]
This paper deals with a Niskanen type of public-procurement agency. It is shown that the procurement game should be separated into an investment game and a project game, the first game to be played before nature determines the actual real-izations of ...
Dieter Bös
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Enterprise Architecture as an Enabler for a Government Business Ecosystem: Experiences from Finland [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Public sector procurement units in the field of ICT suffer from siloed, application-specific architectures, where each system operates in isolation from others. As a consequence, similar or even identical data is maintained in several different databases hosted by different organizations.
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Public Expenditures Through Public Procurement [PDF]
European Journal of Engineering and Formal Sciences, 2018 Treaty of Rome of 1957 and following treaties on amending the Treaty of Rome contain a number of basic principles on which the EU is founded. Among these principles, the most important ones related to the public procurement are: prevention of discrimination based on nationality, free movement of goods; right and freedom of establishment of a business ...
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Blockchain‐Empowered H‐CPS Architecture for Smart Agriculture
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This article reviews the current system architectures for smart agriculture and proposes a blockchain‐empowered hierarchical cyber‐physical system (H‐CPS) framework. It discusses the challenges and outlines future research directions, including the use of semantic blockchain to handle complex data and models.
Xiaoding Wang +8 more
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