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Evaluating the Potential of Protected Cultivation for Off-Season Leafy Vegetable Production: Prospects for Crop Productivity and Nutritional Improvement

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
The effects of different protective structures on horticultural and nutritional yield of amaranth and water spinach were studied in three seasons of 2020–2021 in Taiwan.
Srinivasan Ramasamy, Mei-Ying Lin, Wan-Jen Wu, Hsin-I Wang, Paola Sotelo-Cardona   +4 more
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Effects of sustainable agricultural practices on farm income and food security in northern Ghana

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022
The adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) has been recommended by many experts and international institutions to address food security and climate change problems. Global support for the Sustainable Development Goals has focused attention
Edinam Dope Setsoafia, Wanglin Ma, Alan Renwick   +2 more
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An Experimental Pricing Framework for E-Commerce

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2021
Characterizing the demand curve of products is important for pricing them optimally. However, in deriving empirical demand curves, econometricians have to contend with identification issues.
Puneet Vatsa, Wanglin Ma, Xiaoshi Zhou
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Does online food shopping boost dietary diversity? Application of an endogenous switching model with a count outcome variable

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022
Increasingly, rural households in developing countries are shopping for food online, and the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend. In parallel, dietary guidelines worldwide recommend eating a balanced and healthy diet.
Wanglin Ma, Puneet Vatsa, Hongyun Zheng, Yanzhi Guo   +3 more
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Engineering Supply Chain Transportation Indexes through Big Data Analytics and Deep Learning

Applied Sciences, 2023
Deep learning has experienced an increased demand for its capabilities to categorize and optimize operations and provide higher-accuracy information. For this purpose, the implication of deep learning procedures has been described as a vital tool for the
Damianos P. Sakas, Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos, Marina C. Terzi, Nikos Kanellos   +3 more
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Determining Factors for Supply Chain Services Provider Selection and Long-Term Relationship Maintenance: Evidence from Greece

Logistics, 2023
Background: Due to increased globalization and its subsequent rise in competitiveness, the role of supply chain services (3PL) in managing logistics, reducing operational and non-operational costs, and managing customer and supplier relationships, have ...
Damianos P. Sakas, Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos, Nikos Kanellos, Christos Christopoulos, Kanellos S. Toudas   +4 more
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The Contribution of Digital Technology to the Forecasting of Supply Chain Development, in IT Products, Modeling and Simulation of the Problem

Forecasting, 2022
Aiming for the forecasting and predictability of their future development, corporations have developed appropriate strategies as a result of the necessity to optimize the distribution networks of new IT products over time.
Dimitrios K. Nasiopoulos, Dimitrios M. Mastrakoulis, Dimitrios A. Arvanitidis   +2 more
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Innovation in global value chains [PDF]

, 2019
In this chapter, the authors focus on innovation in global value chains and on the role that such chains play in building and deepening capability. They also focus on the trajectories along which firms, located in developing countries, once inserted into global value chains acquire or lose innovation capability. To do so, they bring together the global
Rasmus Lema, Carlo Pietrobelli, Rabellotti Roberta   +2 more
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Bio-economic and operational feasibility of introducing oestrus synchronization and artificial insemination in simulated smallholder sheep breeding programmes

Animal, 2018
Low selection intensity due to few selection candidates available at any one time due to thinly spread year-round lambings in villages and prohibitively large nucleus requirements to provide sufficient improved rams to the production tier are the major ...
S. Gizaw, A. Tegegne
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The Long-Term Risk Familiarity Effect on Courier Services’ Digital Branding during the COVID-19 Crisis

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, 2022
The explosion of e-commerce creates new opportunities for courier companies to thrive, making the industry one of the success stories, due to its sustainability and resilience during the pandemic.
Damianos P. Sakas, Ioannis Dimitrios G. Kamperos, Marina C. Terzi   +2 more
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