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Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Introduction. Issues on the functional unification of the adaptive hydraulic drive module are studied. For the first time, self-adapting mechanisms are considered taking into account adaptive intercommunication of the load control ...
V. A. Pershin, T. A. Khinikadze
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. Service discovery is a fundamental concept underpinning the move towards dynamic service-oriented business partnerships. The business process for integrating service discovery and underlying registry technologies into business relationships ...
Boniface, M.J. +2 more
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How Design Plays Strategic Roles in Internet Service Innovation: Lessons from Korean Companies [PDF]
In order to survive in the highly competitive internet business, companies have to provide differentiated services that can satisfy the rapidly changing users’ tastes and needs. Designers have been increasingly committed to achieving user satisfaction by
Chung, Kyung-won, Kim, Yu-Jin
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Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang +2 more
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Online applications such as games and e-learning applications fall within the broader category of real-time online interactive applications (ROIA), a new class of ‘killer’ application for the Grid that is being investigated in the edutain@grid project ...
Middleton, S.E. +3 more
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Towards business integration as a service 2.0 (BIaaS 2.0) [PDF]
Cloud Computing Business Framework (CCBF) is a framework for designing and implementation of Could Computing solutions. This proposal focuses on how CCBF can help to address linkage in Cloud Computing implementations.
Chang, V, Walters, RJ, Wills, G
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Grid services have come to represent the synthesis of web services and grid computing paradigms. Web services provide the means to modularise software, enabling loosely coupled and novel synthesis. Grid computing removes the binding between functional software components and specific hosting hardware, enabling software to be deployed dynamically over a
David Bell +2 more
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Situational Enterprise Services [PDF]
The ability to rapidly find potential business partners as well as rapidly set up a collaborative business process is desirable in the face of market turbulence.
de Vrieze, Paul Ton, Xie, Li, Xu, Lai
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