L’ONU face à la société de l’information by Louise Lassonde

“…It emphasizes the major role plaid by cities and local governments in promoting innovative ideas and new mechanisms, such as digital solidarity through decentralized cooperation. Finally it raises two questions on the implementation and follow-up of the commitments made at the Summit.…”
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Coordination in a Single-Retailer Two-Supplier Supply Chain under Random Demand and Random Supply with Disruption by Fei Hu, Cheng-Chew Lim, Zudi Lu, Xiaochen Sun

“…We also analyze the decentralized scenario, and a combination of overproduction risk sharing and buy-back contracts with a side payment from/to the backup supplier is provided to coordinate the supply chain. …”
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Implementasi Teknologi Blockchain dengan Sistem Smart Contract pada Klaim Asuransi by Baihaqsani, Ari Kusyanti, Primantara Hari Trisnawan

“…By implementing a decentralized application, integrity, confidentiality and transaction transparency in insurance claims can be realized. …”
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Les « techniques alternatives » sont-elles envisagées comme un outil de gestion qualitative des eaux pluviales ? by Émeline Comby, Anne Rivière-Honegger, Marylise Cottet, Sébastien Ah-Leung, Nina Cossais

“…We aim at understanding how various stakeholders perceive and address the pollutant issues linked with stormwater and at analyzing what degree of efficiency they associate with alternative stormwater management facilities (centralized and decentralized). We interviewed 24 stakeholders involved in stormwater management in the metropolitan area of Lyon. …”
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Controller Design of Multiinput Multioutput Time-Delay Large-Scale System by Chia-Wei Lin, Tzuu-Hseng S. Li, Chung-Cheng Chen

“…We have simulated the two-inverted-pendulum system coupled by a spring for networked control systems which has been used as a test bed for the study of decentralized control of large-scale systems.…”
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A Collaborative Self-Governing Privacy-Preserving Wireless Sensor Network Architecture Based on Location Optimization for Dynamic Service Discovery in MANET Environment by Cong Gao, Jianfeng Ma, Shangwei Zhang

“…Due to the characteristics of a MANET, none of the existing solutions for service discovery work well in decentralized mobile environments. In this paper, we propose a collaborative self-governing privacy-preserving wireless sensor network architecture to address the issue of service discovery in MANET environment. …”
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Regional Development Trends and the Regional Development Institutions in the Visegrad Countries – Enabling or Hindering Institutional Environment? by György Nagyházi

“…The aim of this paper is to highlight the possible linkages between the individual countries’ particular central and territorial development institutional settings with the different regional development process trajectories: the two types of regional development systems in the Visegrad countries (centralized and decentralized) and the two main regional development processes (growing and non-growing regional disparities).…”
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Patterns, Trends and Policy Processes in Spanish Secondary Education: Multiple Streams in a Multilevel Context by Eliseo López Sánchez, Esther del Campo

“…However, Spain is a decentralized State and the Autonomous Communities (regions) are responsible for implementing secondary education. …”
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Integrating Asafo Companies for Sustainable Ocean and Coastal Heritage Management in Ghana by John Windie Ansah, Georgina Yaa Oduro, Rosabelle Boswell

“…This article reveals their contribution and argues that, while Asafo groups desire greater inclusion in heritage management, the national government of Ghana seeks to decentralize ocean governance processes. But, Asafo companies are complex groupings in which identity and “place,” matter. …”
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A Novel E-DVA Module Synthesis Featuring of Synergy between Driving and Vibration Attenuation by Cheng Gu, Jianfei Zhu, Xinbo Chen

“…To attenuate the negative effects brought by heavy unsprung mass of the decentralized driving electric vehicle, a novel e-DVA module featuring of synergy between driving and vibration attenuation is proposed in this paper. …”
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Emergency Strategies of Closed-Loop Supply Chain with Single Retailer Recycling under Demand Disruptions by Jian Cao, Yuting Yan, Lingyuan Wang, Xihui Chen, Xuemei Zhang, Gengui Zhou

“…Considering demand disruptions, a closed-loop supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and two competing retailers based on decentralized decision-making is considered. In the supply chain, one retailer recovers end-of-life products while the other does not. …”
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Sole Native Authority (SNA) and the People at War: A Historical Review of the 1948 Erunkoja tax Riot in Ile-Ife by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…Indeed, the British decentralized despotism, the introduction of some burdensome taxation policies, and other prevalent tax related considerations naturally engendered resistance, which manifested in protest movements, revolts and outright riots in some places in Yorubaland. …”
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Les expérimentations de coopératives énergétiques citoyennes face à leur viabilité by Philippe Hamman

“…Using the social transactions paradigm, we are able to understand the practical compromises that take place at the territorial level and relativize the so-called major divisions between industrial and centralized energy systems and citizen and decentralized systems. From an empirical point of view, this paper is based on the sociological study of photovoltaic and wind energy cooperatives conducted between 2019 and 2021 in the Upper Rhine region, between France, Germany and Switzerland.…”
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Agroecologia, mercado e inovação social: o caso da Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia by Oscar José Rover

“…It is organized in a multidirectional network, with horizontal and decentralized decision-making processes. Its relationship with the markets emerged from local and regional experiences. …”
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Cross-chain medical data sharing scheme based on elliptic curve signcryption by YU Huifang, LI Lei

“…Decentralized blockchain can realize the storage of medical data. …”
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An Energy-Efficient Node Selection Algorithm in Bearings-Only Target Tracking Sensor Networks by Xiaoxiao Jiang, Wei He, Xuguang Yang, Yingguan Wang

“…In this paper, an energy-efficient node selection algorithm for bearings-only sensors in decentralized sensor networks is proposed. The residual energy of a node is incorporated into the objective function of node selection. …”
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Charles Lévesque, entre les genres by Luc Bonenfant

“… Cet article aborde l’œuvre de Charles Lévesque (1817-1859) à partir de l’idée d’une « étiologie de l’oubli » afin de faire l’hypothèse d’une liminarité constitutive où jouent des ressorts esthétiques et formels lui permettant de se décentrer par rapport aux enjeux consacrés de la littérature canadienne-française d’alors. …”
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The “national – local” DIALECTIC in the Tunisian electoral laws or how to represent the “people” in post-Ben Ali Tunisia by Eric Gobe

“…The emergence of the « local » in the « national » is translated by the adoption of the first electoral law integrating the issue of the region and by the adoption of a largely decentralized state architecture. The new constitution paved the way for the organization of local collectives directed by elected councils for universal suffrage, and has encouraged actors of the post-Ben Ali political stage to cast a new regard on the effects of electoral methods on the operation of the local as well as national political scene.…”
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Vertex-Weighted Consensus-Based Formation Control with Area Constraints and Collision Avoidance by Ulises Hernandez-Venegas, Jesus Hernandez-Barragan, Irene Gomez Jimenez, Gabriel Martinez-Soltero, Alma Y. Alanis

“…Additionally, the proposed approach can be implemented considering a group of differential-drive mobile robots in both centralized and decentralized settings. Simulation and real-world experiments are performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, where the experimental setup includes a multi-robot system composed of Turtlebot3^® Waffle Pi robots.…”
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Coordination of Advertising Free Riding in Hybrid Channel Supply Chain by Jin Sha, Aihu Wang, Ting Lv, Wenling Wu

“…To coordinate the supply chain effectively, firstly, this paper classifies hybrid channel supply chain based on the relationship between members and selects horizontally integrated, vertically integrated, and decentralized hybrid channel supply chains as research objects. …”
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