Joint Initiatives Instead of Multilateralism: A New Reality for the WTO? by O. V. Biryukova

“…The article also analyzes the prospects for integrating specific joint initiatives (internal regulation in services, simplification of investments in development, e-commerce) into the WTO system. The article emphasizes that despite standard features, all initiatives are unique in their content, format, and history and are at different stages of readiness, for Russia, which takes an active part in these joint initiatives, bringing the negotiations to a conclusion. …”
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An Approximation Solution to Refinery Crude Oil Scheduling Problem with Demand Uncertainty Using Joint Constrained Programming by Qianqian Duan, Genke Yang, Guanglin Xu, Changchun Pan

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Recent advances in conventional and innovative extraction techniques for recovery of high-added value compounds for food additives and nutraceuticals by Abhishek Bisht, Subash Chandra Sahu, Anand Kumar, Sammra Maqsood, Mukul Machhindra Barwant, Swapnil G. Jaiswal

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Impulsive Fashion Purchases on Shopee: Fashion Involvement, Positive Emotions, Platform Quality, and Online Promotions by Aisyah Putri Agustin, Anton Agus Setyawan

“…These results highlight the importance of synergistic promotional strategies and user-friendly platform designs in stimulating impulsive purchases, while also acknowledging limitations in sample representativeness and suggesting further investigation into causal mechanisms and interactions between these factors to provide nuanced insights for e-commerce strategies. …”
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The determinants of severe food insecurity in Africa using the longitudinal generalized Poisson mixed model by Adusei Bofa, Temesgen Zewotir

“… Food insecurity is a multifaceted issue (challenge) that affects health care, policies, agriculture output leadership, the environment, the food system, and the politics of global commerce in the food industry. Our aim was to get the relevant components of food security and nutrition concerning Africa holistically and use these identified components to discover the most informative correlates that affect the number of severe food insecure individuals in Africa with its population as an offset. …”
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Progress in Preparation, Functional Characteristics and Application of Soybean Protein Amyloid-like Fibrils by ZHU Xiuqing, HAN Tianlu, LIU Jiyuan, GUO Ruqi, ZHU Ying, HUANG Yuyang, LIU Linlin

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Responsabilidade tributária das plataformas de marketplace no sistema tributário nacional by Carlos Renato Cunha, Luiza França Pecis

“…Ao longo dos últimos anos, percebe-se um crescimento exponencial das operações comerciais e de prestação de serviços cada vez mais descentralizadas, impulsionadas pela popularização do novo modelo de negócios denominado e-commerce. Embora a digitalização das transações econômicas tenha trazido facilidades, as autoridades fiscais enfrentam o desafio de tributar essas operações virtuais, especialmente aquelas intermediadas pelos marketplaces. …”
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Mongolia’s assertive and pragmatic role in India’s Connect Central Asia Policy: Current trajectory and Future Ahead by Subhash Kumar, Souvik Chatterjee

“…However, China still has an overreaching control over Mongolia’s trade, commerce, and other sectors. China also dominates intra-regional trade in North-East Asia. …”
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Optimization and Prediction of the Mechanical Properties of Concrete with Crumb Rubber and Stainless-Steel Fibers Under Varying Temperatures by Ayman El-Zohairy, Osman Hamdy

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PROFILES AND PREFERENCES OF ON-LINE MILLENIAL SHOPPERS IN BULGARIA by Patricia R. Loubeau, Robert Jantzen, Elitsa Alexander

“…Also called millenials and born between the mid-1970s and late 1990s, this generation is especially active online and will be a dominant influence shaping e-commerce. An empirical study was conducted based on a written survey of a sample consisting of 367 high school and university students in Bulgaria. …”
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A Newly Developed Sublingual Tonometric Method for the Evaluation of Tissue Perfusion and Its Validation In Vitro and in Healthy Persons In Vivo and the Results of the Measurements... by Zoltán Rózsavölgyi, Domokos Boda, Andrea Hajnal, Krisztina Boda, Attila Somfay

“…Unfortunately, at present, because of severe failures of manufacturing, the device is withdrawn from commerce. Materials and Methods. In this study, we present a new method using a newly developed tool for the PslCO2 measurement in sublingual tonometry as well as the data for its validation in vitro and in vivo and the results of 25 volunteers and 54 COPD patients belonging to different GOLD groups at their hospitalization due to the acute exacerbation of the disease but already in a stable condition at the time of the examination. …”
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Development of Screening Tools for the Interpretation of Chemical Biomonitoring Data by Richard A. Becker, Sean M. Hays, Steven Robison, Lesa L. Aylward

“…Evaluation of a larger number of chemicals in commerce from the perspective of potential human health risk has become a focus of attention in North America and Europe. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Duty of Loyalty of Company Directors and Its Impact on Conflict of Interest Management and Data Retention in Iranian and English Law by mohammadreza Pasban, salah mahmoodi

“…In addition to the fact that the rules of corporate governance and the theory of the independence of managers are the result of the development and impact of the Common Law system in the matter of fulfilling the duty of loyalty and dealing with conflict of interests, the penetration of these rules into Iranian law in the laws of commerce (1311 and 1347) and the securities market (1384) ), in addition to checking and legal review, it sometimes requires revision and modification of the texts of these laws. …”
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Use of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Numbers in Survey Sampling Analysis with Application in Electronic Data Interchange by Farah Rasheed, Sajida Kousar, Javid Shabbir, Nasreen Kausar, Dragan Pamucar, Yaé Ulrich Gaba

“…Real-life example of the use of electronic data interchange (EDI) in Pakistan’s different fields, such as business, commerce, transport, airlines, warehousing, and logistic and delivery industry, is used to support the proposed methodology. …”
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Globalisation and the Australian Aborigines: gain or strain? by Ludivine Royer

“…La mondialisation est un phénomène très complexe, qui implique à la fois l’émergence de l’économie de marché, l’accélération du commerce international, l’ouverture des frontières, la libre circulation des personnes et des biens, le développement extraordinaire des transports et de la technologie de l’information, la montée en puissance des télécommunications et des médias à l’échelle planétaire, l’expansion des cultures occidentales et le déclin des États-nations au profit d’institutions internationales en plein essor. …”
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Tea and depression by Klaus W. Lange, Yukiko Nakamura, Katharina M. Lange, Hui Zhao

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COMPANIES AND UNIVERSITIES: RANKING OF COOPERATION PERFORMANCE by Dmitry A. Endovitsky, Sergey N. Komendenko

“…The ranking of companies is used by the Voronezh region government and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and was used as a basis for similar research in other regions as well as a prototype for a methodology of monitoring the cooperation between companies and institutions of secondary professional education. …”
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Sustainable business practices in SMEs: a retrospective insight on catalysts and hurdles by Ubais Parayil Iqbal, Lenin Kumar Nooney, Fatma Said Sulaiman Al Ghafri, Tilda Mary Daniel

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Оn the genesis and essence of the process of digitalization of global economic development by Alina Shevtsova

“…The following results are obtained: based on the analysis, it is noted that the genesis of the process of digitalization of global economic development can be considered in several stages: 1) the pre-digital stage; 2) the initial stage of digitization; 3) the stage of digitization of processes; 4) the stage of development of network technologies; 5) the stage of e-commerce and business Internet; 6) the stage of artificial intelligence and data analysis; 7) the stage of the digital transformation boom. …”
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Generating User Privacy-Controllable Synthetic Data for Recommendation Systems by Zhenxiang He, Ke Chen, Zhenyu Zhao

“…Recommender systems are widely used in e-commerce, news, and advertising, providing personalized recommendations by analyzing user interaction history. …”
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