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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201610.0065.v1

Views and Preferences for Nicotine Products as an Alternative to Smoking: A Focus Group Study of People Living with Mental Disorders

Carla Meurk, Pauline Ford, Ratika Sharma, Lisa Fitzgerald, Coral Gartner

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Psychiatry And Mental Health Keywords: nicotine products; tobacco harm reduction; people living with mental illness; qualitative research; consumer preferences

Online: 17 October 2016 (10:49:07 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0153.v2

The Impact of Corona Pandemic on Consumer’s Food Consumption – Vulnerability of Households with Children and Income Losses

Adriano Profeta, Shahida Siddiqui, Sergiy Smetana, Mahdi Hossaini, Sophie Hieke, Ulrich Enneking, Volker Heinz, Christian Kircher

Subject: Social Sciences, Behavior Sciences Keywords: Covid-19; consumer behaviour; food

Online: 13 January 2021 (11:06:00 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0265.v1

A National Cross-Sectional Survey to Assess Tobacco and Nicotine Product Usage Patterns and Behaviour Since the Introduction of Tobacco Heating Products in Japan: Wave 1

Joshua Jones, Jason Adamson, Claudia Kanitscheider, Krishna Prasad, Oscar M. Camacho, Ekaterina Beliaeva, Hans Bauer, Yoga Keralapura, James Murphy

Subject: Social Sciences, Behavior Sciences Keywords: Tobacco and nicotine products; tobacco heating products; cigarettes; switching; consumer behaviour; usage patterns.

Online: 10 December 2020 (14:01:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201612.0059.v1

Geographic Distribution of Registered Packaged Water Production in Ghana: Implications for Groundwater Management and Environmental Impacts

Mawuli Dzodzomenyo, Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Dan Lapworth, Nicola Wardrop, Jim Wright

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: water footprint; bottled water; groundwater; Africa; water resource management; urban

Online: 10 December 2016 (08:41:51 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0714.v1

Towards a Biomanufactory on Mars

Aaron Berliner, Jacob M. Hilzinger, Anthony J. Abel, Matthew McNulty, George Makrygiorgos, Nils J.H. Averesch, Soumyajit Sen Gupta, Alexander Benvenuti, Daniel Caddell, Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Anna Doloman, Skyler Friedline, Desiree Ho, Wenyu Gu, Avery Hill, Paul Kusuma, Isaac Lipsky, Mia Mirkovic, Jorge Meraz, Vince Pane, Kyle B. Sander, Fengzhe Shi, Jeffrey M. Skerker, Alexander Styer, Kyle Valgardson, Kelly Wetmore, Sung-Geun Woo, Yongao Xiong, Kevin Yates, Cindy Zhang, Shuyang Zhen, Bruce Bugbee, Devin Coleman-Derr, Ali Mesbah, Somen Nandi, Robert W. Waymouth, Peidong Yang, Craig S. Criddle, Karen A. McDonald, Amor A. Menezes, Lance C. Seefeldt, Douglas S. Clark, Adam P. Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Automotive Engineering Keywords: space systems bioengineering; human exploration; mars; in situ resource utilization; life support systems; biomanufacturing

Online: 29 December 2020 (07:57:37 CET)

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Preprint DATASET | doi:10.20944/preprints202206.0346.v1

A Dataset Containing Job Descriptions Suitable for NLP and NN Processing

Pieterbas Pluijmaekers, Francesco Lelli

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: dataset; NLP; Human Resource Management; classification; Job description

Online: 27 June 2022 (03:43:51 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201909.0143.v1

Consumer Clothing Behavior and Associated Environmental Impact

Sarif Patwary

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Other Keywords: sustainability; consumer behavior; clothing; clothing behavior; environmental sustainability; fashion; textiles; fashion sustainability; clothing sustainability; textile sustainability

Online: 14 September 2019 (19:10:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0185.v1

On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Choice

Costanza Scaffidi Abbate, Silvana Miceli

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Marketing Keywords: choice; decision making; consumer behavior

Online: 12 July 2022 (09:30:20 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202004.0103.v1

Safe Laboratory Practices in the Light of Covid-19 Pandemic: Way Forward in a Resource Limited Setting

Kevin Odega, Ehijie Iyamah, Ephraim Ibadin, Festus Idomeh, Deborah odega

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Pathology And Pathobiology Keywords: Coronavirus; SARS-CoV-2; Medical Laboratory; Resource-limited setting, Good Laboratory Practice (GLP)

Online: 7 April 2020 (12:11:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201608.0168.v1

Examining the “Natural Resource Curse” and the Impact of Various Forms of Capital in Small Tourism and Natural Resource Dependent Economies

Petar Kurecic, Filip Kokotovic

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: natural capital; human capital; economic growth; small economies; Vector Auto regression; natural resource curse

Online: 18 August 2016 (05:13:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201611.0035.v1

An Emergy-Based Hybrid Method for Assessing Sustainability of an Resource-Dependent Region

Lulu Qu, Xueyi Shi, Chang Liu

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: sustainability; resource-dependent city; emergy analysis; IPAT (Human Impact Population Affluence Technology); Taiyuan

Online: 7 November 2016 (05:15:13 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0723.v1

New Normal: An Hrm Perspective of Post COVID-19 in the Airline Industry

Hassan Imam

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: airlines; human resource management; COVID-19; crisis

Online: 29 December 2020 (09:24:11 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0185.v1

Deep Learning on Low-Resource Datasets

Veronica Morfi, Dan Stowell

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: deep learning; multi-task learning; audio event detection; audio tagging; weak learning; low-resource data

Online: 10 July 2018 (16:05:15 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201702.0032.v1

Estimating Recreational Value of Foy's Lake: An Application of Travel Cost Count Data Model for Truncated Zeros

Md. Touhidul Alam, Anis-Ul-Ekram Chowdury, Md. Sajib Hossian

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: individual travel cost method; zero truncated poisson regression model; endogenous stratification; consumer surplus

Online: 10 February 2017 (11:10:04 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0151.v1

Trend of Ecological Footprint in Mongolia and Policy Directions for the Sustainable Development

Enkhjargal Volodya, Min Ju Yeo, Yong Pyo Kim

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: ecological footprint; biocapacity; resource consumption; grazing land; carbon emission; renewable energy

Online: 9 July 2018 (14:05:23 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201610.0012.v1

Bio-Resource Exchange: Study of Prevalence of Antibody Donation and Development of a Web Portal to Facilitate it

Sandeep Subramanian, Madhavi Ganapathiraju

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biochemistry And Molecular Biology Keywords: data exchange; resource donations; text mining

Online: 5 October 2016 (15:08:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0093.v1

Health and Environmental Consciousness Effects of Wealth in Low Income Countries: Evidence from Households' Energy, Water, and Sanitation Services Consumption in Burkina Faso

Ibrahim Niankara

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Econometrics And Statistics Keywords: consumer behavior; cooking fuel; environmental consciousness; health consciousness; semi-parametric estimation; trivariate probit; water and sanitation; wealth

Online: 13 February 2018 (08:53:03 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0611.v1

Defining and Quantifying National-Level Targets, Indicators and Benchmarks for Management of Natural Resources to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs)

Chris Dickens, Vladimir Smakhtin, Matthew McCartney, Gordon O'Brien, Lula Dahir

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: water resources; natural resources; resource security; SDGs; goal; target; benchmark; standard

Online: 28 November 2018 (14:03:52 CET)

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the SDGs, are high on the agenda for most countries of the world. In its publication of the SDGs, the UN has provided the goals and target descriptions that, if implemented at a country level, would lead towards a sustainable future. The IAEG (InterAgency Expert Group of the SDGs) was tasked with disseminating indicators and methods to countries that can be used to gather data describing the global progress towards sustainability. However 2030 Agenda leaves it to countries to adopt the targets with each government setting its own national targets guided by the global level of ambition but taking into account national circumstances. At present, guidance on how to go about this is scant, but it is clear that the responsibility is with countries to implement and that it is actions at a country level that will determine the success of the SDGs. SDG reporting by countries takes on two forms 1) global reporting using prescribed indicator methods and data; 2) National Voluntary Reviews where a country reports on its own progress in more detail but is also able to present data that are more appropriate for the country. For the latter, countries need to be able to adapt the global indicators to fit national priorities and context, thus the global description of an indicator could be reduced to describe only what is relevant to the country. Countries may also, for the National Voluntary Review, use indicators that are unique to the country but nevertheless contribute to measurement of progress towards the global SDG target. Importantly, for those indicators that relate to the security of natural resources security (e.g. water) indicators, there are no prescribed numerical targets/standards or benchmarks. Rather countries will need to set their own benchmarks or standards against which performance can be evaluated. This paper presents a procedure that would enable a country to describe national targets with associated benchmarks that are appropriate for the country. The procedure focusses on those SDG targets that are natural resource-security focussed e.g. extent of water-related ecosystems (6.6), desertification (15.3) etc., because the selection of indicator methods and benchmarks is based on the location of natural resources, their use and present state and how they fit into national strategies.

Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0329.v1

Biomanufacturing for Space-Exploration – What to Take and When to Make

Nils J.H. Averesch, Aaron J. Berliner, Shannon N. Nangle, Spencer Zezulka, Gretchen L. Vengerova, Davian Ho, Cameran A. Casale, Benjamin A.E. Lehner, Jessica E. Jessica Snyder, Kevin B. Clark, Lewis R. Dartnell, Craig S. Criddle, Adam P. Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Bioengineering Keywords: in-space biomanufacturing; space synthetic biology; space bioprocess engineering; biological life-support systems; in situ resource utilization; circular economy

Online: 21 July 2022 (11:01:29 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202308.0120.v1

Towards Sustainable Cosmetics Packaging

Manu Dube, Sema Dube

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Other Keywords: Sustainable Cosmetics; Sustainable Packaging; Sustainability Strategies; Consumer Behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility; Technological Developments

Online: 2 August 2023 (11:03:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0327.v2

Results-Based Forest Conservation Funding: Amazon Fund 10 Years Later, Lessons from the World's Largest REDD+ Program

Juliano Correa, Richard Van der Hoff, Raoni Rajão

Subject: Social Sciences, Political Science Keywords: REDD+; amazon fund; results-based funding; benefit distribution; resource allocation; climate change funding; effectiveness.; forest conservation funding

Online: 13 February 2019 (09:59:35 CET)

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Results-Based Funding (RBF) for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) has become an important instrument for channeling financial resources to forest conservation activities. At the same time, much literature on conservation funding is ambiguous about the effectiveness of existing RBF schemes. Many effectiveness evaluations follow a simplified version of the principal-agent model, although in practice the relation between aid providers and funding recipients is much more complex. As a consequence, intermediary steps of conservation funding are often not accounted for effectiveness studies. This research paper aims to provide a nuanced understanding of conservation funding by analyzing the allocation of financial resources for one of the largest RBF schemes for REDD+ in the world: the Brazilian Amazon Fund. As part of this analysis, this study has built a dataset of information on Amazon Fund projects at unprecedented detail in order to accurately reconstruct the allocation of financial resources across different stakeholders (i.e. governments, NGOs, research institutions), geographies and activities. The results show that stakeholders seem to hold preferences with respect to the type of activities that they support, thereby suggesting that project owners exert much influence on how deforestation reduction is to be attained. There are evidences that governmental organizations lack financial additionality of their projects, which renders the growing share of funding to this type of stakeholder particularly worrisome. By contrast, the geographical distribution of financial resources seemed to follow a more focused rationale as financial support tends to concentrate in areas where deforestation threats are highest. Overall, the allocation of the financial resources from the Amazon Fund reflects an arbitrary support of different projects that adopt very diverging theories of change that are not primarily concerned with attaining further deforestation reductions. As projects owners exert influence on funding effectiveness to some extent, the Amazon Fund may either seek to regulate the allocation of financial resources more actively or adopt funding effectiveness evaluations that account for this influence more comprehensively.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0182.v1

Potential of Sorghum bicolor L. (Moench) and the Effect of Enhancements in Remediation of Petroleum-Vitiated Soils of an Automobile Repair Workshop in Urbanite Kampala

Timothy Omara, Raymond Kalukusu, Eddie Adupa, Tom Owori, David Mawanda Kizza, Jimmy Obonge

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Plant Sciences Keywords: enhancement factors; Epuripur 1995; resource curse; Urbanite Kampala

Online: 18 January 2019 (10:19:45 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0022.v1

Pursuing the potential of heirloom cultivars to improve adaptation, nutritional and culinary features in a changing climate

Sangam Dwivedi, Irwin Goldman, Rodomiro Ortiz

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Agricultural Science And Agronomy Keywords: culinary and nutritional traits; farmer-breeder-chef-consumer nexus; folk cultivars; genetic diversity; global warming; heritage seedbank; local food systems; seed savers; stress tolerance

Online: 3 June 2019 (12:34:14 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201802.0024.v1

Co-producing a Vision and Approach for the Transition towards a Circular Economy: Perspectives from Government Partners

Anne P. M. Velenturf, Phil Purnell, Mike Tregent, John Ferguson, Alan Holmes

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: resource efficiency; zero waste; resource recovery from waste; low-carbon economy; circular economy infrastructure; clean growth; resource productivity; sustainable development goals; transdisciplinary research; participatory action research

Online: 5 February 2018 (03:27:02 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0030.v1

Allocation of Tutors and Study Centers in Distance Learning Using Geospatial Technologies

Shahid Nawaz Khan, Kamran Mir, Ali Tahir, Arshad Awan, Zaib un Nisa, Syeda Aareeba Gillani

Subject: Social Sciences, Education Keywords: geospatial technologies; distance learning; resource allocation; AIOU

Online: 3 April 2018 (04:29:44 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0036.v1

Freshly Prepared or Reheated? The Effect of Cold Storage and Reheating of Parboiled Rice on Consumer Preference and Acceptability in Auckland, New Zealand

Louise Weiwei Lu, John Monro, Jun Lu, Elaine Rush

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Behavioral Sciences Keywords: parboiled rice; medium-grain white rice; medium-grain brown rice; sensory evaluation; consumer acceptability

Online: 6 November 2017 (07:07:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202010.0044.v1

Trade in Scrap Materials: Looking Beyond Plastics

Henrique Pacini, Jennifer Golbeck

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Waste Management And Disposal Keywords: Scrap; waste; materials; trade; resource flows; embedded emissions; circular economy

Online: 2 October 2020 (13:56:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0111.v1

Consumer Preferences on the Coffee Market in Developing Central European Countries: On the Example of Poland

Łukasz Wróblewski, Grzegorz Maciejewski, Sylwia Mokrysz

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Marketing Keywords: consumer preferences; coffee market; coffee; research results

Online: 6 September 2018 (05:59:23 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201708.0104.v1

Comparison and Screening of NFC Options in View of Sustainable Performance and Waste Management

Aleksandra Schwenk-Ferrero, Andrey Andrianov

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: advanced nuclear fuel cycles; waste management; resource utilization; economics; performance comparison; multi-criteria decision analysis; sensitivity/uncertainty analysis; environmental footprint

Online: 30 August 2017 (12:35:24 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0006.v1

Applying Petroleum Pressure Buildup Well Test Procedure on Thermal Response Test—A Novel Method to Improve Accuracy of Thermal Conductivity Determination

Tomislav Kurevija, Kristina Strpić, Sonja Koščak-Kolin

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: shallow geothermal resource; borehole heat exchanger; thermal response test; TRT

Online: 1 December 2017 (11:18:32 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202105.0035.v1

Blockchain Technology: The Emerging Human Resources Challenge

Maria P Michailidis

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: Blockchain Technology; Blockchain Trust; Security; Fraud; Human Resource (Hr) Management

Online: 5 May 2021 (11:33:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0078.v2

Segmentation of Coffee Consumers Using Sustainable Values: Cluster Analysis

Grzegorz Maciejewski, Sylwia Mokrysz, Łukasz Wróblewski

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: market segmentation; coffee market; consumer behaviour; sustainable consumption; sustainable values; factor analysis; cluster analysis

Online: 27 November 2018 (05:19:25 CET)

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The driving force behind adopting the idea of sustainable development are producers and retailers. Unfortunately, when preparing their product range for consumers, many of them still only pay attention to the size of the customers’ earnings, how often they shop and how much they buy when shopping. In consumer segmentation, sustainable values that consumers apply when making their purchasing decisions are rarely taken into account. The aim of this article is to show that values such as environmental protection, the ethical behaviour of producers, fair trade or maximising the utility function of consumption are so important in the purchasing process in the coffee market that they can be used as segmentation variables. The Polish coffee market was selected to carry out segmentation taking into account the consumers' sustainable values. The main source of the article is the results of a standardized online survey conducted on a nationwide sample of 800 coffee consumers in July 2018. Multi-dimensional analyses such as extrapolative factor analysis (EFA) and cluster analysis (CA) were used to describe the obtained results. As a result, six segments of coffee consumers were identified and described: “responsible, aspiring to be connoisseurs”, “loyal coffee enthusiasts”, “pragmatic users”, “coffee laypersons”, “sophisticated connoisseurs”, “consumerists, connoisseurs, but not at any price”. Among the identified segments, the sustainable consumption values most often mentioned refer to "responsible, aspiring to be connoisseurs", and the least often - ”consumerists, connoisseurs, but not at any price”. The conclusions presented in the last part of the article may be used by manufacturing and trade enterprises, operating on the coffee market, in order to respond to the identified needs and expectations of consumers and by governmental and social organisations so as to determine the directions of pro-ecological education of consumers.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0254.v2

Utility Approaches to Evaluating the Effectiveness of Consumer Confidence Reports

Jessica Evans, Adam T. Carpenter

Subject: Social Sciences, Behavior Sciences Keywords: consumer confidence report; communication; water quality report

Online: 17 April 2019 (10:53:57 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202209.0085.v1

The Study of Consumer Behavior on Online Food Ordering System (Go-Food) in The Metropolitan City

Idi Jahidi, N. A. Ruyani, Doni Purnama Alamsyah

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Marketing Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Online Food Ordering Systems; Behavior Intention

Online: 6 September 2022 (10:03:48 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0074.v1

Aircraft Ground Handling Operations: A Literary Review

Hayat El Asri, Ali Fakhrulddin, Ali Al-Humairi, Najah Almhanna

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Human Resources And Organizations Keywords: Keywords: Aircraft, Ground Handling, Operations Performance, Resource Allocation, Resource Scheduling, Operations Scheduling, Vehicle Routing, Workers and Vehicles Allocation.

Online: 4 October 2018 (14:04:58 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0506.v1

Commercial Bank Money, Seigniorage, and the Macroeconomy

Biagio Bossone

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Commercial banks, Interest rate, Money creation, Monetary circuit of production, Resource distribution, Seigniorage

Online: 29 August 2018 (16:02:56 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0036.v1

A Structural Equation Model for Measuring the Impact of Human Resource Management Practices and Organizational Loyalty on Employee Retention: An Indian Perspective

Deepa Naidu, Devi Rajesh

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: Organizational loyalty, human resource management practices, structural equation modeling, employee turnover and employee retention

Online: 6 October 2017 (10:00:34 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0043.v1

Assessing the Drivers of Traditional and Local Products Consumption in Europe. Are There any Contradictions?

George Vlontzos, Leonidas Kyrgiakos, Marie Noelle Duquenne

Subject: Social Sciences, Cognitive Science Keywords: traditional; local; consumer behavior; principal component analysis

Online: 8 January 2018 (04:17:29 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0179.v1

Economic Diversity and the Resource Curse: A Dynamic Panel Model

Fred Olayele, Kwok Soo

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Diversity; resource curse; economic growth.

Online: 13 April 2018 (14:18:36 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201909.0223.v1

Consumer Demand for Blockchain-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading in the United Kingdom: An online survey experiment

Michael J. Fell, Alexandra Schneiders, David Shipworth

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: peer-to-peer energy trading; consumer demand; distributed ledger technology; blockchain; online survey experiment

Online: 19 September 2019 (11:30:53 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0677.v1

Consumer Preferences for Meat Products Blended with Plant-Based Proteins in Germany

Adriano Profeta, Marie-Christin Baune, Sergiy Smetana, Sabine Bornkessel, Keshia Broucke, Gert van Royen, Ulrich Enneking, Jochen Weiss, Volker Heinz, Nino Terjung

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Food Science And Technology Keywords: meat substitute; meathybrid; consumer preference; plant-based proteins

Online: 26 November 2020 (23:08:59 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201907.0339.v1

Groundwater Quality Assessment for Drinking and Agricultural Purposes in Tabriz Aquifer, Iran

Esmaeil Asadi, Mohammad Isazadeh, Saeed Samadianfard, Mohammad Firuz Ramli, Amir Mosavi, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Kwok-Wing Chau

Subject: Engineering, Civil Engineering Keywords: water quality index (WQI); groundwater quality; modeling irrigation water quality; Tabriz aquifer; water resource management

Online: 30 July 2019 (11:35:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0139.v1

On the Statistical Mechanics of Alien Species Distribution

michael G. bowler, Colleen K. kelly

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Keywords: statistical mechanics; resource partitioning; stochastic processes; population dynamics

Online: 22 November 2017 (06:31:17 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202204.0246.v1

Adaption of the Meat Attachment Scale (MEAS) to Germany - Interplay with Food Neophobia, Preference for Organic Foods, Social Trust and Trust in Food Technology Innovations

David Kühn, Adriano Profeta, Thomas Krikser, Clara Mehlhose, Christian Kircher, Volker Heinz

Subject: Social Sciences, Psychology Keywords: meat attachment; food neophobia; consumer preference; preference for organic foods

Online: 27 April 2022 (03:45:28 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0051.v1

Resource Demand Forecasting Model Based on Dynamic Cloud Workload

Chunyan An, Jiantao Zhou

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computational Mathematics Keywords: cloud computing; workload model; workload-aware resource forecasting model

Online: 9 October 2017 (12:40:34 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0083.v1

Economics of the Natural Capital and The Way Forward

Gowhar Meraj, Suraj Kumar

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science And Meteorology Keywords: Ecosystem services; Natural resource management; Natural capital; Ecosystem service provisioning; Cost-benefit ratio

Online: 5 January 2021 (11:27:39 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0103.v1

Crisis Resource Management in the Delivery Room. Development of Behavioral Markers for Team Performance in Emergency Simulation

Fabrizio Bracco, Gabriele De Tonetti, Michele Masini, Francesca Geretto, Danilo Celleno

Subject: Social Sciences, Psychology Keywords: Crisis Resource Management; obstetric hemorrhage; non-technical skills; High Fidelity Simulation; delivery room

Online: 15 December 2017 (08:54:25 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0050.v1

Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecological Specialization of Baculoviruses: A Treasure Trove for Future Applied Research

Julien Thézé, Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde, Jennifer S. Cory, Elisabeth A. Herniou

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Virology Keywords: cophylogeny; granulovirus; host shifts; Lepidoptera; mPTP; multitrophic interactions; niche conservatism; nucleopolyhedrovirus; phylogenetics; resource tracking; species delimitation

Online: 5 June 2018 (06:32:44 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202007.0313.v1

Understanding Tourism Online Consumer Behavior and eWOM Strategies for Sustainable Business Management

Ana Reyes-Menendez, Marisol B. Correia, Nelson Matos, Charlene Adap

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: eWOM; Online Reviews; Online consumer behavior; Management; Tourism

Online: 14 July 2020 (13:45:38 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202108.0074.v1

Resource Allocation Schemes For 5G Network: A Systematic Review

Muhammad Ayoub Kamal, Hafiz Wahab Raza, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, M.S. Mazliham

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: 5G, Resource allocation, Resource distribution, Congestion, 5G communication, Comprehensive, Review, Systematic.

Online: 3 August 2021 (11:31:27 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0698.v1

Emergency Online Learning in Low-Resource Contexts: Student Perceptions of Effective Engagement Strategies

Victoria Abou-Khalil, Samar Helou, Eliane Khalifé, MeiRong Alice Chen, Rwitajit Majumdar, Hiroaki Ogata

Subject: Social Sciences, Education Keywords: online learning; emergency; low-resource; engagement; distance learning; student perception; survey; COVID-19; Moore framework

Online: 27 November 2020 (15:19:57 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201711.0126.v2

Fog over Virtualized IoT: New Opportunity for Context-Aware Networked Applications and a Case Study

Paola G. V. Naranjo, Zahra Pooranian, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Jemal H. Abawajy, Mauro Conti

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: Vehicular Fog Computing (VFC); Big Data Streaming (BDS); Energy-Efficiency; resource management; Infrastructure-to-Vehicular (I2V)

Online: 24 November 2017 (05:06:27 CET)

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What e-Consumers Want? Forecasting Parcel Lockers Choice in Rome

Gabriele Iannaccone, Edoardo Marcucci, Valerio Gatta

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: parcel locker; last mile delivery; home delivery; City Logistics; urban freight transport; stated preference; discrete choice modelling; consumer behaviour; e-commerce; channel choice; collection points

Online: 28 May 2021 (12:23:05 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0520.v3

The Ecology of Plant Interactions: A Giant with Feet of Clay

Ciro Cabal, Fernando Valladares, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Keywords: plant-plant interactions; stress gradient hypothesis; functional trait ecology; inter-plant distance; individual-based models; consumer-resource models

Online: 17 February 2022 (19:37:10 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0047.v1

The Dali Model in Risk Management Practice: The Case on Financial Services Firms

Rebecca Dalli Gonzi, Simon Grima, Murat Kizilkaya, Jonathan Spiteri

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: change management; decision-making model; risk management; resource management; process improvement; good governance

Online: 4 October 2019 (10:42:05 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0523.v1

The Effects of Visual Cues, Blindfold, Synesthetic Experience and Music Training on Pure-Tone Frequency Discrimination

Cho Kwan Tse, Calvin Kai-Ching Yu

Subject: Social Sciences, Cognitive Science Keywords: frequency difference limens; blindfold; visual cues; auditory-visual synesthesia; gliding frequencies; perceptual limit, common resource theory; multiple resource model

Online: 30 August 2018 (10:40:28 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0401.v2

Space Bioprocess Engineering on the Horizon

Aaron Berliner, Isaac Lipsky, Davian Ho, Jacob Hilzinger, Gretchen Vengerova, George Makrygiorgos, Matthew McNulty, Kevin Yates, Nils Averesch, Charles Cockell, Tyler Wallentine, Lance Seefeldt, Craig Criddle, Somen Nandi, Karen McDonald, Amor Menezes, Ali Mesbah, Adam Arkin

Subject: Engineering, Bioengineering Keywords: space systems bioengineering; biomanufacturing; space bioprocess engineering; biotransformation human exploration; in situ resource utilization; life support systems; biomanufacturing; space policy

Online: 27 December 2021 (15:48:53 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201810.0100.v1

Joint Power and Bandwidth Allocation for UAV Backhaul Networks: A Hierarchical Learning Approach

Tingting Yang, Kailing Yao, Youming Sun, Fei Song, Yang Yang, Yuli Zhang

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: UAV backhaul networks; Stackelberg game; delay durance; resource allocation; energy efficiency

Online: 5 October 2018 (12:58:17 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202102.0307.v1

Fog Computing: Towards Dynamically Controlling the Offloading Threshold and Managing Fog Resources in Online Dynamic Systems

Faten Alenizi, Omer Rana

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Science Keywords: Fog Computing; Computational Offloading; Dynamic Offloading Threshold; Resource Management; Minimising delay; Minimising energy consumption; Maximising throughputs

Online: 12 February 2021 (14:44:22 CET)

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A Method for Calculation of a Hydro Resource Price Using the Operational Features of a Hydropower Plant

Yury Anatoljevich Sekretarev, Tatyana Vladimirovna Myateg, Olga S. Sergeevna Atamanova

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: hydropower plants, optimization, hydro resource price, incremental water rate characteristic, electricity market, complex criteria of ecological-and-economic efficiency.

Online: 15 June 2021 (11:35:48 CEST)

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Risk Analysis of IT Projects Implementation in Hospitals

Hajar Sadeghzadeh

Subject: Engineering, Industrial And Manufacturing Engineering Keywords: Risk analysis, Information Technology, Hospitals, Human Resource Risks.

Online: 18 March 2019 (09:30:38 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202009.0302.v1

Lightweight Cryptographic Algorithms on Resource-Constrained Devices

Thomas Xuan Meng, William Buchanan

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Computer Vision And Graphics Keywords: Lightweight cryptography; Internet of Thing (IoT); Resource constrained devices; Encryption-decryption; Symmetric cipher; Asymmetric cipher; Speed; Efficiency; Security; Cost; Raspberry Pi

Online: 13 September 2020 (23:50:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201904.0317.v1

The Role of Marketing in Cultural Institutions in the Context of Assumptions of Sustainable Development Concept—The Example of Poland

Magdalena Sobocińska

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Marketing Keywords: marketing concept; cultural institutions; sustainable development; cultural offer diversity; culture consumer

Online: 28 April 2019 (11:39:21 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0268.v1

Assessment of Circular Economy within Portuguese Organizations

Luis Miguel Fonseca, José Pedro Domingues, Maria Teresa Pereira, Florinda Figueiredo Martins, Dominik Zimon

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: Circular economy; sustainability; environmental management; resource management; strategy; motivations; knowledge; challenges.

Online: 18 June 2018 (14:15:28 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202101.0370.v1

European Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Red Meat Attributes

Emilia Cubero Dudinskaya, Simona Naspetti, Georgios Arsenos, Emmanuelle Caramelle-Holtz, Terhi Latvala, Daniel Martin-Collado, Stefano Orsini, Emel Ozturk, Raffaele Zanoli

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: consumer preferences; red meat; food consumption; discrete choice experiment (DCE); willingness to pay (WTP); random utility model

Online: 19 January 2021 (10:52:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0188.v1

Territorial Competitiveness Revisited from the Resource-Based View: A Comparative Study in the Wind Energy Sector on Islands

Francisco Santana-Sarmiento, Francisca Rosa Álamo-Vera, Petra De Saá-Pérez

Subject: Social Sciences, Geography, Planning And Development Keywords: Resource-based view, regional competitiveness, renewable energy, wind power, island

Online: 20 February 2019 (10:59:22 CET)

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Opening Closed Loop Ecological Life Support Systems with In-Situ Resources on the Moon

Alex Ellery

Subject: Engineering, Other Keywords: Bioregenerative life support; closed ecological life support; in-situ resource utilization; lunar industrial ecology; 3D bioprinting; gene editing

Online: 28 June 2021 (15:23:39 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202104.0355.v1

An Impact Analysis Concerning the Effect of Scandals on Sustainable Consumer Purchase

Simona Vasilache

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: consumer behavior,; celebrity endorsement, Romanian market

Online: 13 April 2021 (13:09:22 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0138.v1

An Assessment of Wind Power Generation Potential of Built Environment Wind Turbine (BEWT) Systems in Fort Beaufort, South Africa

Terrence Manyeredzi, Golden Makaka

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: distributed system; power density; renewable energy; sustainability; utility scale; wind resource

Online: 11 April 2018 (06:07:49 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202209.0249.v1

Modeling Green Energy Consumption and Natural Resources Rents Impacts on Economic Growth in Africa: An Analysis from the Dynamic Panel ARDL Models and the Feasible Generalized Least Squares Estimator

Sulemana Mumuni, Thomas Mwimba

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Green energy; Natural resource rents; Economic growth; SDGs; FGLS; PMG & MG

Online: 16 September 2022 (11:37:20 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202103.0567.v1

Flour Pasting Properties Define Consumer Selection Decisions for Boiled and Flour-Based Cassava Food Products in Uganda

Ephraim Nuwamanya, Michael Kanaabi, Enoch Wembabazi, Nicholas Muhumuza, Alfred Ozimati, Williams Esuma, Paula Iragaba, Steven Angudubo, AnnRitah Nanyonjo, Hale Tufan, Robert Kawuki

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Anatomy And Physiology Keywords: cassava; pasting properties; acceptability; consumer preference; selection metrics.

Online: 23 March 2021 (12:43:19 CET)

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Preprint DATA DESCRIPTOR | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0232.v1

Preprint: Data from a Systematic Review of Crowdsourcing of Research Data from Wildlife Tourism Photographs and Comments Shared on Social Networking Sites

Greg D Simpson, Obelia Walker

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: citizen science; crowdsourced data; ecotourism; natural Resource management; social media; photo-elicitation; photovoice; wildlife conservation; wildlife tourism

Online: 22 August 2019 (11:32:08 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0144.v1

Role of Linear Programming Based Cropland Allocation to Enhance Performance of Smallholder Crop Production: A Pilot Study on Abaro Kebele, Shashemene Zuria District, West Arsi Zone, Oromiya Regional State, Ethiopia

Meselu Mellaku, Travis Reynolds, Teshale Woldeamanuel

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Cropland allocation, linear programming, Crop production performance, Smallholder, resource management

Online: 7 September 2018 (15:41:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0241.v1

Consumer Behaviour in Search of a Circular Economy

Antoni Seguí-Alcaraz

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: circular economy; environment; consumer

Online: 12 July 2021 (11:14:35 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0317.v1

Performance of Resource Allocation in Device-to-Device Communication Systems Based on Evolutionally Optimization Algorithms

Hsu-Tan Tan, Bor-An Chen, Yung-Fa Huang

Subject: Engineering, Electrical And Electronic Engineering Keywords: device-to-device; LTE systems; resource allocation; particle swarm optimization algorithm; genetic algorithm; system capacity

Online: 20 June 2018 (09:31:54 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202210.0072.v1

The Role of Age to Sustainable Fast Fashion Consumption Behaviour: An Empirical Study of Chinese Consumers

Yanghui Cao

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Marketing Keywords: Sustainable consumption; consumer behaviour; fast fashion; millennial; theory of reasoned actions

Online: 7 October 2022 (07:33:51 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201809.0107.v1

Consumer Behaviour on the Market of Cultural Services in Developing Central European Countries: On the Example of Poland

Łukasz Wróblewski, Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Marketing Keywords: cultural institutions; cultural services; consumer behaviour; research results

Online: 6 September 2018 (03:38:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202012.0311.v1

Resource Interaction in Smallholder Farms is Linked to Farm Sustainability: Evidence from Indian Sundarbans

Rupak Goswami, Sonja Brodt, Sangita Patra, Purnabha Dasgupta, Biswanath Mukherjee, Somen Nandi

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Anatomy And Physiology Keywords: resource integration; network analysis; sustainability; small-scale farm

Online: 14 December 2020 (09:26:08 CET)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202109.0132.v1

A need for Recalibration of the Discussions on Access and Benefit Sharing

Rodrigo Sara, Markus Wyss, René Custers, Anouk in 't Veld, Dominic Muyldermans

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Other Keywords: Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS); resource mobilization; Digital Sequence Information (DSI); Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework; biodiversity crisis

Online: 7 September 2021 (16:07:18 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0303.v1

TWIENG: A Multi-Domain Twi-English Parallel Corpus for Machine Translation of Twi, a Low-Resource African Language

Gabriel Kwadwo Afram, Benjamin Asubam Weyori, Felix Adebayo Adekoya

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Twi; Parallel corpus; Tokens; Sketch Engine; Word sketch; Parallel concordance; Machine Translation; Low-Resource Language

Online: 23 March 2022 (02:28:21 CET)

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Preprint COMMUNICATION | doi:10.20944/preprints202306.1389.v1

Infectious Disease Diagnostic Technologies for People Living in Extreme Poverty: An Unmet Need

Tochukwu Anyaduba, Obiageli Irechukwu, Uchechukwu Anyaduba

Subject: Public Health And Healthcare, Other Keywords: Diagnostics; Lower and Middle-Income Countries; Extreme Poverty; Limited-resource settings; infectious diseases; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Nigeria; Antimicrobial; poverty; paper devices; mobile phone; smartphones; microfluidics; multiplexing; inexpensive diagnostics; medical devices; repairability

Online: 20 June 2023 (05:17:19 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0399.v1

Organic Farming: To Pursue or Not to Pursue? An Exploratory Study Based on Evidence from Bangladesh

Rubaiya Murshed, Mohammad Riaz Uddin

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: consumer perception; environment; health; income level; organic farming

Online: 25 June 2018 (16:40:48 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202008.0645.v1

Recognizing More Emotions with Less Data Using Self-supervised Transfer Learning

Jonathan Boigne, Biman Liyanage, Ted Östrem

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: Speech Emotion Recognition; Emotion AI; Self-Supervised Learning; Transfer Learning; Low Resource Training; wav2vec

Online: 28 August 2020 (15:05:37 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0016.v1

Recommendations for Promoting Patient Engagement in Chronic Care: A Consensus Conference Statement

Guendalina Graffigna, Serena Barello, Giuseppe Riva, Massimo Corbo, Gianfranco Damiani, Primiano Iannone, Albino Claudio Bosio, Walter Ricciardi

Subject: Social Sciences, Psychology Keywords: patient engagement; consumer health; recommendation; consensus conference; guidelines; health services research

Online: 3 February 2020 (05:31:43 CET)

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Exploiting Linguistic Knowledge for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Yirong Pan, Xiao Li, Yating Yang, Rui Dong

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning Keywords: linguistic knowledge; source language; neural machine translation (NMT); low-resource; multi-source NMT

Online: 2 March 2020 (15:28:34 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201908.0025.v1

Resource Base Assessment of Acacia Seyal in Eastern Amhara Region

Andualem Ayalew, Derbie Wudu, Gezahagn Getachew, Tegabu Redae, Hoaddis kasshun

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Forestry Keywords: resource potential; point center quarter methods; Acacia seyal structure; species composition; diversity

Online: 2 August 2019 (09:27:50 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0424.v1

Aggregator of Demand Response for Renewable Integration and Customer Engagement: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

Kody T. Ponds, Ali Arefi, Ali Sayigh, Gerard Ledwich

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: aggregator; demand response; distributed energy resource; information communication technology; SWOT; PEST

Online: 24 August 2018 (05:27:20 CEST)

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Characteristics of Future Models of Integrated Outpatient Care

Alan Leviton, Julia Oppenheimer, Madeline Chiujdea, Annalee Antonetty, Oluwafemi William Ojo, Stephanie Garcia, Sarah Weas, Eric Fleegler, Eugenia Chan, Tobias Loddenkemper

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Other Keywords: consumer health informatics; E-health; mobile Apps; outpatient follow-up; patient portal; patient-reported outcomes

Online: 2 April 2019 (12:32:10 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0207.v1

Fast Confirmation of Antibody Identity by MALDI-TOF-MS Fingerprints

Georg Tscheuschner, Timm Schwaar, Michael G. Weller

Subject: Biology And Life Sciences, Biology And Biotechnology Keywords: Antibody ID; antibody registry; Research Resource Identifier; RRID; reproducibility; quality control; documentation; traceability; clones; biochemical reagents; diagnostics; immunoassays; ELISA; western blot; immunohistochemistry; microarray; biosensor

Online: 15 February 2020 (15:46:27 CET)

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Thousands of antibodies for diagnostic and other analytical purposes are on the market. However, it is often difficult to identify duplicates, reagent changes, and to assign the correct original publications to an antibody. This slows down scientific progress and might even be a cause of irreproducible research and a waste of resources. Recently, activities were started to suggest the sole use of recombinant antibodies in combination with the open communication of their sequence. In this case, such uncertainties should be eliminated. Unfortunately, this approach seems to be rather a long-term vision since the development and manufacturing of recombinant antibodies remain quite expensive in the foreseeable future. Also, nearly all commercial antibody suppliers may be reluctant to publish the sequence of their antibodies, since they fear counterfeiting. De-novo sequencing of antibodies is also not feasible today for a reagent user without access to the hybridoma clone. Nevertheless, it seems to be crucial for any scientist to have the opportunity to identify an antibody undoubtedly to guarantee the traceability of any research activity using antibodies from a third party as a tool. For this purpose, we developed a method for the identification of antibodies based on a MALDI-TOF-MS fingerprint. To circumvent lengthy denaturation, reduction, alkylation, and enzymatic digestion steps, the fragmentation was performed with a simple formic acid hydrolysis step. Eighty-nine unknown monoclonal antibodies were used for this study to examine the feasibility of this approach. Although the molecular assignment of peaks was rarely possible, antibodies could be easily recognized in a blinded test, simply from their mass-spectral fingerprint. A general protocol is given, which could be used without any optimization to generate fingerprints for a database. We want to propose that in most scientific projects relying critically on antibody reagents, such a fingerprint should be established to prove and document the identity of the used antibodies and to assign a specific reagent to a datasheet of a commercial supplier, a public database record or an antibody ID.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202105.0718.v1

Shifting Shopping Patterns through Food Marketplace Platform: A Case Study in Major Cities of Indonesia

Istianingsih Istianingsih, Islamiah Kamil, Robertus Suraji

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Accounting And Taxation Keywords: marketplace platform; consumer interest; ease of use; security; online shopping

Online: 31 May 2021 (09:09:38 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202002.0422.v1

Label-free, High-throughput Assay of Human Dendritic Cells from Whole-blood Samples with Microfluidic Inertial Separation Suitable for Resource-limited Manufacturing

Caffiyar Mohd Yousuff, Kue Peng Lim, Ismail Hussain Kamal Basha, Nor Hisham Hamid, Sok Ching Cheong, Eric Tatt Wei Ho

Subject: Engineering, Bioengineering Keywords: inertial spiral microfluidics; dendritic cell separation; resource-limited microfluidics

Online: 28 February 2020 (11:54:44 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0287.v1

The influence of institutional support on innovation performance of new ventures: the mediating mechanism of entrepreneurial orientation

Yang Jie, Mingxing Yu

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Business And Management Keywords: Institutional support; new ventures; entrepreneurial orientation; innovation resource acquisition; innovation performance.

Online: 20 January 2022 (08:12:07 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201901.0137.v1

Equitability in Healthcare Resource Allocation Concerning Substance Users: An Argument Against Lower Priority Setting

La Shun L. Carroll

Subject: Public Health And Healthcare, Public Health And Health Services Keywords: Organ Transplantation, Ethics, Healthcare Resource Allocation, Lower Priority, Substance Use, Merit

Online: 14 January 2019 (12:05:34 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202110.0279.v1

The Role of Energy Return for Energy Invested (EROEI) in Dissipative Autocatalytic Systems

Ugo Bardi, Alessandro Lavacchi, Ilaria Perissi

Subject: Engineering, Energy And Fuel Technology Keywords: EROEI; Lotka Volterra; resource exploitation; dissipative systems

Online: 19 October 2021 (13:57:02 CEST)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0053.v1

Integrating Endemic Medicinal Plants into the Global Value Chains: The Ecological Degradation Challenges and Opportunities

Volenzo Tom, John Odiyo, Offoro Kimambo

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Sustainable Science And Technology Keywords: bio-prospecting; biopiracy; collective action; common property resources; ecosystem sustainability; natural resource management; institutions; property rights; value chain

Online: 2 November 2018 (11:06:20 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201805.0117.v1

Dual Methods for Optimal Allocation of Telecommunication Network Resources with Several Classes of Users

Erkki Laitinen, Igor Konnov, Aleksey Kashuba

Subject: Computer Science And Mathematics, Information Systems Keywords: telecommunication networks, wireless networks, service levels, resource allocation, optimization problem, decomposition methods, Lagrange duality

Online: 7 May 2018 (14:45:40 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201808.0229.v1

The Ex-Post Economic Evaluation of Water Resource Management in South Korea: Meta-Regression Analysis

Hyun No Kim, SoEun Ahn

Subject: Business, Economics And Management, Economics Keywords: Economic evaluation; Water resource management; Meta-regression analysis; River management funds; Sustainability of water resources

Online: 13 August 2018 (12:26:24 CEST)

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Multi-Resource Watershed Research in the Southwestern USA and the Four Forests Restoration Initiative: A Review

Gerald J. Gottfried, Daniel G. Neary

Subject: Environmental And Earth Sciences, Environmental Science Keywords: watershed; forest restoration; integrated resource management; Southwest USA; Beaver Creek; Thomas Creek; Castle Creek

Online: 11 September 2019 (05:11:42 CEST)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0227.v3

A Review of Groundwater Management Models with a Focus on IoT-Based Systems

Banjo Aderemi, Thomas Otieno Olwal, Julius Musyoka Ndambuki, Sophia Sudi Rwanga

Subject: Engineering, Control And Systems Engineering Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); groundwater level; groundwater resource; groundwater management models; groundwater monitoring system; wireless sensor network

Online: 28 December 2021 (12:10:17 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202107.0702.v1

Telemonitoring of Real-World Health Data in Cardiology: A Systematic Review

Benjamin Kinast, Matthias Lutz, Björn Schreiweis

Subject: Medicine And Pharmacology, Cardiac And Cardiovascular Systems Keywords: telemonitoring; telemedicine; telecardiology; cardiology; wearable; sensors; consumer health devices; cardiovascular disease; heart failure; atrial fibrillation

Online: 30 July 2021 (13:22:06 CEST)

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