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, 2021 Blockchain is a distributed, digitized and consensus- based secure information storage mechanism. The present article provides an overview of using blockchain to create a secure and reliable e-voting system. The primary purpose of this review is to study the up-to-date state of blockchain-based voting research along with associated possible challenges ...
Shivam Jaiswal, Yash Dalvi, Pawan Sharma
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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MCDM approach for weighted ranking of candidates in e-voting
Informacijos Mokslai, 2019 The aim of the study is the application of multi-criteria evaluation methods for ranking of candidates in e-voting. Due to the potential to enhance the electoral efficiency in e-voting multiple criteria, such as personality traits, activity and ...
Rasim Alguliyev +2 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Empowering Democracy: Does Blockchain Unlock the E-Voting Potential for Citizens?
Human Behavior and Emerging TechnologiesThe adoption of blockchain technology continues to grow, a direct result of its potential to provide new solutions to old problems in several industries, including the electoral sector.
Margarida Roldão Pereira +1 more
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase +2 more
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Palmprint Verification Using SIFT Majority Voting
, 2011 In this paper we illustrate the implementation of a robust, real-time biometric system for identity verification based on palmprint images. The palmprint images are preprocessed to align the major axes of hand shapes and to extract the palm region. We extract features using Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT).
Abeysundera, H. Pasindu, Eskil, M. Taner
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The Influence of Common Language on the Trade of Wheat and Bakery Products
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether sharing a common official language increases the probability that two countries engage in bilateral trade of wheat and bakery products. Using a binary choice framework applied to 54,780 country‐pair observations for 2023, probit and logit models of the extensive margin of trade are estimated, with a focus on whether
Felipe Durães do Nascimento Monteiro Barbosa +1 more
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Arduino – Based Electronic Voting Machine
Tikrit Journal of Pure Science, 2019 The main objective of this paper is to design and implement Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) using fingerprint sensor for authentication. The design is based on the microcontroller (Arduino Mega 2560), fingerprint sensor for scanning voter’s fingerprint ...
Marwa Adeeb Al-jawaherry
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