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A sustainable business ecosystem: a case study demonstrating biochar's potential

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.
Abstract The need for renewable, climate‐friendly resources has become urgent as legislators worldwide have sought to find ways to cut emissions while ensuring resource security for consumers. The use of biochar could help to achieve these goals. This study examines the current state of commercial biochar production and the maturity of the related ...
Kivijakola Juuso, Erkheikki Eemeli, Lukka Viljo, Tervonen Pekka, Harri Haapasalo   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cloud Storage for Electronic Health Records Based on Secret Sharing With Verifiable Reconstruction Outsourcing

IEEE Access, 2018
Deploying electronic health records (EHRs) is now an undisputable trend in healthcare systems. Through affording benefits like flexibility and low cost, the cutting-cloud cloud storage is becoming a popular solution to store a massive amount of EHRs to ...
Hanlin Zhang, Jia Yu, Chengliang Tian, Pu Zhao, Guobin Xu, Jie Lin   +5 more
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Through the lens of marketing authorization holders: experience in use of real‐world data and real‐world evidence in drug development and regulatory submissions in EU

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim The aim of this study was to assess the general and product‐specific experiences of MAHs use of RWD/RWE in medicines development and in their regulatory submissions, and to explore organizational aspects of MAHs related to RWD/RWE. Methods An electronic survey was conducted, and information collected directly from MAHs.
Sini M. Eskola, Aleksandar Gigov, Hubertus G. M. Leufkens, Andrew Bate, Marie Louise De Bruin, Helga Gardarsdottir   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

BLOOM: BLoom filter based oblivious outsourced matchings

BMC Medical Genomics, 2017
Background Whole genome sequencing has become fast, accurate, and cheap, paving the way towards the large-scale collection and processing of human genome data. Unfortunately, this dawning genome era does not only promise tremendous advances in biomedical
Jan Henrik Ziegeldorf, Jan Pennekamp, David Hellmanns, Felix Schwinger, Ike Kunze, Martin Henze, Jens Hiller, Roman Matzutt, Klaus Wehrle   +8 more
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Sailing From Penalties to Accountability: Business Strategies and Governance for Firms to Innovate After Environmental Misconduct

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms' continuous pursuit of making a profit in the competitive market may ignore the actions related to environmental responsibilities. This set of actions for financial gains constitutes environmental misconduct, which not only harms ecosystems and communities but also brings reputational damage. Negative press and social media amplification
Ashutosh Singh, Salwa Saleh Almasabi, Ajay Kumar Patel, Priyanka Malik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Business Framework for Product Take‐Back—A Structured Multiple‐Case Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The potential of take‐back systems remains largely unrealized as initiatives have proven difficult to implement in practice. The question is why we do not see more take‐back systems given the substantial environmental benefits. We try to understand the challenges and stumbling blocks in setting up take‐back from a business perspective.
Rasmus Jørgensen, Torben Pedersen
wiley   +1 more source

A Privacy-Preserving Edge Computation-Based Face Verification System for User Authentication

IEEE Access, 2019
The face recognition has become a common means of identity authentication because of the advantages of uniqueness, non-invasive and not easy to be stolen. The outsourcing of face recognition to the service provider is a typical manner nowadays.
Xiang Wang, Heyu Xue, Xuefeng Liu, Qingqi Pei   +3 more
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Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino, Sandro Rondinella, Marianna Succurro   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Efficient Parallel Secure Outsourcing of Modular Exponentiation to Cloud for IoT Applications

Mathematics
Modular exponentiation is crucial for secure data exchange in cryptography, especially for resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These devices often rely on third-party servers to handle computationally intensive tasks like modular ...
Satyabrat Rath, Jothi Ramalingam, Cheng-Chi Lee   +2 more
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Protecting genomic data analytics in the cloud: state of the art and opportunities

BMC 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, Xiaoqian Jiang, Xiaofeng Wang, Shuang Wang, Heidi Sofia, Dov Fox, Kristin Lauter, Bradley Malin, Amalio Telenti, Li Xiong, Lucila Ohno-Machado   +10 more
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