The institutionalisation of research and innovation in Swiss sports federations – Analysis of the status quo by Cornel Gübeli, Hippolyt Kempf, Solange Emmenegger, Christelle Ganné-Chedeville

“… Introduction The closure of the federal sport commission (ESK) in 2011 led to a decentralization of research and innovation in Swiss sport. …”
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Blockchain-Based Value-Added Tax System: A Systematic Review by Vahideh Ghanooni Shishavan, Shaban Elahi, Sadegh Dorri Nogoorani, Ali Yazdian Varjani

“…By identifying existing challenges in electronic invoices, such as transaction forgery, the long process of issuing electronic invoices, and hacking of the central database, blockchain technology, with its features like decentralization, tamper-proofness, transparency, and automation, emerges as a suitable solution. …”
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Lithuanian, Russian, Polish istoriography with respect to the Poland - Lithuania union by Mečislovas Jučas

“…The political life, under conditions of full decentralization, was determined by the federation of regions (mainly Russian ones). …”
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Evaluation of a short training course of chest X-ray interpretation for the diagnosis of paediatric TB by B. F. Melingui, E. Leroy-Terquem, M. Palmer, J-V. Taguebue, A. P. Wachinou, J. Gaudelus, A. Salomao, D. Bunnet, T. C. Eap, L. Borand, C. Chabala, C. Khosa, R. Moh, J. Mwanga-Amumpere, M. T. Eang, I. Manhiça, A. Mustapha, S. Beneteau, L. Falzon, J. A. Seddon, L. Berteloot, E. Wobudeya, O. Marcy, M. Bonnet, P. Y. Norval

“…METHODS: Within the TB-Speed Decentralization Study, we developed a three half-day training course to identify normal CXR, CXR of good quality and identify six TB-suggestive features. …”
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Designing and explaining the improvement model of women's employability capacity with emphasis on the 7th development plan by Mahsa Vahidpour, Akbar Etebarian Khorasgani, Mehrban Hadi Peykani, Saeed Daei-Karimzadeh

“…Based on this, the policy makers and those in charge of employment in the country should acquire recognition and detailed knowledge of the components of the development model of women's employability capacity with emphasis on the 7th development plan, such as support policies, challenges related to gender discrimination, territorial development, need assessment, value chain analysis, strategic alignment, dealing with island thinking, talent management, skill capacities, strategic balance, entrepreneurial platform, governing management structure, formation of think chambers, explanation of women's employment document, cognitive complexity, synergy, policymakers' attitude, knowledge sharing culture, empowerment, integration mechanisms, focus on core issues, community employability culture, networking, honoring the status of women, professionalization, decentralization, job-employee fit, cultural enrichment, information platforms, educational system, financial support, cognitive flexibility, control and supervision system and economic infrastructure. …”
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The Effect of Corneal Refractive Power Area Changes on Myopia Progression during Orthokeratology by Minfeng Chen, Xinting Liu, Zhu Xie, Pengqi Wang, Miaoran Zheng, Xinjie Mao

“…The orthokeratology decentration via tangential difference topography was analyzed. …”
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Research on Financial Hedging Decision Based on Exchange Rate Risk in Transnational Supply Chain by Liang Wang, Xianyan Xiong, Mengmeng Hui

“…The results illustrate that (i) for decentralized and centralized decision-making, the manufacturer’s expected profit and profit variance decrease with the increase of the fluctuations of import and export exchange rates under the hedging strategy for exchange rate risks; (ii) compared with the decentralized supply chain, the manufacturer’s expected profit in the centralized supply chain decreases slightly under the revenue-sharing contract; (iii) in the centralized supply chain, if the manufacturer’s risk hedging ratio is high, its profit variance is smaller than that of the decentralized supply chain and the expected profits of the retailer and the supplier will increase significantly; and (iv) for the members of the transnational supply chain, centralized decision-making is better than decentralized decision-making.…”
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Research on Coordination of Fresh Produce Supply Chain in Big Market Sales Environment by Juning Su, Jiebing Wu, Chenguang Liu

“…In this paper, we propose two decision models for decentralized and centralized fresh produce supply chains with stochastic supply and demand and controllable transportation time. …”
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Pricing Decisions in Dual-Channel Supply Chain considering Different Fairness Preferences and Low-Carbon Advertising Level by Hong Huo, Dan Luo, Zhanghua Yan, Hao He

“…Absolute fairness concerns intensify the dual marginal effect of decentralized decision-making.…”
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Dynamic Pricing and Supply Coordination with Reimbursement Contract under Random Yield and Demand by Guo Li, Lun Ran, Xiaohang Yue, Zhaohua Wang

“…This paper investigates the dynamic pricing and supply chain coordination in a decentralized system that consists of one supplier and one manufacturer, in which both the market demand and production yield are stochastic. …”
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Study on Quality Decisions in Supply Chain considering the Lagged Time and Retailers Competition by Yuan Peng, Liang Ning

“…Under decentralized decision-making, the lagged time of product quality on goodwill is favorable to retailers but unfavorable to manufacturers and vice versa. …”
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Research on the Fresh Agricultural Product Supply Chain Coordination with Supply Disruptions by Sun Guohua

“…The optimal solutions in the centralized and decentralized supply chains are studied. It is found that the retailer’s optimal order quantity and the maximum total supply chain profit in the decentralized supply chain with wholesale price contract are less than that in the centralized supply chain. …”
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Transpoiesis: the art of doing organization without becoming one by Christian Schröder

“…Emerging from ethnographic research on the World Social Forum (WSF) and inspired by systems theory, transpoiesis emphasizes the dynamic balance within social movements between decentralized organization and strategic coherence. This differentiates it from autopoiesis, which focuses on self-sustaining systems that maintain and reproduce their structure autonomously through internal processes, rather than emphasizing the dynamic balance between decentralized organization and strategic coherence. …”
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Lithium-Ion Battery State of Health Degradation Prediction Using Deep Learning Approaches by Talal Alharbi, Muhammad Umair, Abdulelah Alharbi

“…., deep learning) and decentralized (i.e., federated learning) approaches for SoH prediction. …”
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Comparison of Toric and Spherical Orthokeratology Lenses in Patients with Astigmatism by Jun Jiang, Lili Lian, Feifu Wang, Ling Zhou, Xuhong Zhang, E. Song

“…There was a significant linear correlation between the change in corneal astigmatism and lens decentration in the toric group from 1 month to 1 year (Y = 3.268 ∗ X + 0.9182, R2 = 0.5035, p<0.0001 (X: lens decentration; Y: astigmatic changes)). …”
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Numerical Study of the Active Tendon Control of a Cable-Stayed Bridge in a Construction Phase by M. H. El Ouni, N. Ben Kahla

“…The proposed strategy is then compared to the one using decentralized integral force feedback (IFF) and showed better performance. …”
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Scenario Analysis on Climate Change Impacts of Urban Land Expansion under Different Urbanization Patterns: A Case Study of Wuhan Metropolitan by Xinli Ke, Feng Wu, Caixue Ma

“…Accordingly, it can be concluded that decentralized urbanization is a reasonable urbanization pattern to mitigate climate change in rapid urbanization period.…”
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Differential Game Model for a Dual-Channel Supply Chain’s Optimal Strategy under the Reference Carbon Emission Effect by Di Yu

“…In order to alleviate the double marginal effect brought about by decentralized decision-making, a cost-compensation coordination mechanism is proposed. …”
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Sulcus Fixation of Foldable Intraocular Lenses Guided by Ultrasound Biomicroscopy by Shasha Gao, Tingyu Qin, Shengnan Wang, Yong Lu

“…The inserting position of needles, the haptics position of IOL and the IOL tilt, and decentration were observed by UBM examination 3 months after the surgery. …”
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Game Theoretic Analysis of Carbon Emission Reduction and Sales Promotion in Dyadic Supply Chain in Presence of Consumers’ Low-Carbon Awareness by Liangjie Xia, Longfei He

“…We consider three typical scenarios, that is, centralized and decentralized without or with side-payment. We compare measures of supply chain performances, such as profitabilities, emission reduction efficiencies, and effectiveness, in these scenarios. …”
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