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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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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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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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Electronic Voting Using Blockchain
, 2022 online voting is achieving momentum in modern society. It has splendid potential to decrease organizational prices and growth voter turnout. It gets rid of the need to print poll papers or open polling stations, citizens can vote from wherever there is a web connection.
Rubin Siby, Dr.Manju K Mathai
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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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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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A CRITICAL REAPPRAISAL OF SOME VOTING POWER PARADOXES [PDF]
Power indices are meant to assess the power that a voting rule confers a priori to each of the decision makers who use it. In order to test and compare them, some authors have proposed "natural" postulates that a measure of a priori voting power "should"
Annick Laruelle, Federico Valenciano
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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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Fast Schulze Voting Using Quickselect
CoRRThe Schulze voting method aggregates voter preference data using maxmin-weight graph paths, achieving the Condorcet property that a candidate who would win every head-to-head contest will also win the overall election. Once the voter preferences among $m$ candidates have been arranged into an $m\times m$ matrix of pairwise election outcomes, a previous
Arushi Arora +2 more
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Exosomes are emerging as powerful biomarkers for disease diagnosis and monitoring. This review highlights the integration of surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy with artificial intelligence to enhance molecular fingerprinting of exosomes. Machine learning and deep learning techniques improve spectral interpretation, enabling accurate classification of ...
Munevver Akdeniz +2 more
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