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Accounting &Finance, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 2537-2557, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between ESG rating divergence and corporate excess cash holdings, employing a sample of Chinese A‐share listed companies from 2015 to 2021. Our findings reveal a significant positive relationship between ESG rating divergence and firms' excess cash holdings, a conclusion robust to various sensitivity ...
Qun Cao +3 more
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Design and Implementation of a Reliable Container-based Service Function Chaining Testbed in Cloud-native System: An Open Source Approach [PDF]
, 2022 Academia has been moving attention from Virtual Network Function (VNF) to Cloud-native Network Function (CNF) since cloudification has brought the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to an advanced level.
Wang, Ziqiang
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Hybrid‐Electric Aeroengines: Strategic Technical Pathways and Environmental Implications
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2026.Hybrid‐electric propulsion systems represent a transformative frontier in aerospace engineering, critical for achieving sustainable aviation. This review synthesizes recent breakthroughs in hybrid‐energy aero‐engine design, critically evaluating key technological pillars.
Yankun Wang, Mingkui Wang
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A Novel Compact Header for Traffic Steering in Service Function Chaining
, 2018 | openaire: EC/H2020/723172/EU//5GPagodaLarge-scale networking infrastructures such as service providers deploy complex services to deal with the growing network traffic demand, security concerns, and user preferences.
Hantouti, Hajar +5 more
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An Efficient Reliability Guaranteed Deployment Scheme for Service Function Chains
IEEE Access, 2019 This paper encloses an in-depth investigation of a novel cost-efficient reliability-guaranteed deployment scheme for service function chains (SFCs) to tackle the drawbacks of the existing studies for the virtual network function (VNF) redundancy ...
NGOC-Thanh Dinh, Younghan Kim
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A Hybrid Learning Framework for Service Function Chaining Across Geo-Distributed Data Centers
IEEE Access, 2020 Service function chaining (SFC) focuses mainly on deploying various network functions in geographically distributed data centers and providing interconnect routing among them.
Tao Tang, Binwei Wu, Guangmin Hu
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Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Volume 18, Issue 8, August 2026.Abstract Past evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) weather prediction has primarily relied on reanalyses, which can obscure important deficiencies due to prevailing biases in reanalyses themselves. Here, we present MAUSAM (Measuring AI Uncertainty during South Asian Monsoon), an evaluation of seven leading AI‐based prediction systems—FourCastNet,
Aman Gupta, Aditi Sheshadri, Dhruv Suri
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Energy-efficient path allocation heuristic for service function chaining
, 2018 Service Function Chaining (SFC) is a service deployment concept that promises cost efficiency and increases flexibility for computer networks. On the other hand, Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides a powerful infrastructure to implement SFC.
Shojafar M. +9 more
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CoRRIn the continuously evolving cloud computing and network environment, service function chain (SFC) plays a crucial role in implementing complex services in the network with its flexible deployment capabilities. To address the limitations of existing SFC simulation tools, this paper introduces Mini-SFC, a modular simulation framework that supports both ...
Xi Wang, Shuo Shi, Chenyu Wu
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Service Function Chaining Architecture for Multi-Hop Split Inference
IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and NetworkingService Function Chaining (SFC) ensures traffic follows a predefined sequence of service functions, enabling dynamic and efficient network services. Inspired by this, we propose an SFC-based architecture for Multi-hop Split Inference (MSI), where split ...
Takanori Hara, Masahiro Sasabe
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