Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? Causal evidence from East Germany after reunification by Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper, Stephan L. Thomsen

“…Our identification strategy employs the decentralized expansion of courses, which led to substantial, quasi-random variation in their regional supply. …”
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Fault Tolerant PLBGSA: Precedence Level Based Genetic Scheduling Algorithm for P2P Grid by Piyush Chauhan, Nitin

“…In this paper, we have proposed a precedence level based genetic algorithm (PLBGSA), which yields schedules for workflows in a decentralized fashion. PLBGSA is compared with existing genetic algorithm based scheduling techniques. …”
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MSF: An Efficient Mobile Phone Sensing Framework by Giuseppe Cardone, Andrea Cirri, Antonio Corradi, Luca Foschini, Dario Maio

“…A new promising research area called mobile sensing promotes completely decentralized sensing based on smartphone capabilities only. …”
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Research on Third-Party Collecting Game Model with Competition in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Based on Complex Systems Theory by Junhai Ma, Yuehong Guo

“…This paper studied system dynamics characteristics of closed-loop supply chain using repeated game theory and complex system theory. It established decentralized decision-making game model and centralized decision-making game model and then established and analyzed the corresponding continuity system. …”
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A Comprehensive Investigation of Fraud Detection Behavior in Federated Learning by Sun Rui

“…This research delves into the application of Federated Learning (FL) models for detecting fraud across different financial bodies. FL facilitates decentralized training of models using local data, ensuring privacy, crucial for handling sensitive financial data. …”
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Backward Anticipated Social Optima: Input Constraints and Partial Information by Shujun Wang

“…By virtue of the so-called <i>anticipated person-by-person optimality principle</i>, a decentralized strategy can be derived. This is based on a class of new consistency condition systems, which are mean-field-type anticipated forward-backward stochastic differential delay equations (AFBSDDEs). …”
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A TSF Control Strategy With Zero Voltage Modulation in Interval Segmented for Permanent Magnet-Assisted Switched Reluctance Motor by Chaozhi Huang, Renquan Xiao, Yong Xiao, Chengyi Gong

“…Firstly, the zero voltage is decentralized by optimizing the PWM modulation method. …”
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Versatile LCL Inverter Model for Controlled Inverter Operation in Transient Grid Calculation Using the Extended Node Method by Daniela Vorwerk, Detlef Schulz

“…Due to increasing decentralized power applications, power electronics are gaining importance, also in distribution grids. …”
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Policy innovation to enhance access to universal health coverage: A case of Kota Semarang by Hanani Retna, Santoso R. Slamet, Astuti Retno Sunu, Djumiarti Titik, Priyadi Budi Puspo

“…The efforts at district level government are particularly important in Indonesia as health care is one of decentralized government functions that has to be managed and financed by district government. …”
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Determining Appropriate Strategy for Managing the Energy Production System in the Presence of Renewable Energy Sources and Improved Intelligence Method by Amir Sohel, Md Faisal Bin Ashab

“…In recent years, changing the structure and decentralizing management of energy systems have been started as a serious movement in many countries and past experience in this field has demonstrated that relying on market mechanism to ensure the adequacy of energy production and supply in the long run lacks efficiency. …”
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Practical Implementation of Federated Learning for Detecting Backdoor Attacks in a Next-word Prediction Model by Jimmy K. W. Wong, Ki Ki Chung, Yuen Wing Lo, Chun Yin Lai, Steve W. Y. Mung

“…Federated learning enables multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared model while retaining data locally. However, this decentralized approach is susceptible to manipulation by malicious actors who control a subset of participating devices, thereby biasing the model’s outputs on specific topics, such as a presidential election. …”
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Real world federated learning with a knowledge distilled transformer for cardiac CT imaging by Malte Tölle, Philipp Garthe, Clemens Scherer, Jan Moritz Seliger, Andreas Leha, Nina Krüger, Stefan Simm, Simon Martin, Sebastian Eble, Halvar Kelm, Moritz Bednorz, Florian André, Peter Bannas, Gerhard Diller, Norbert Frey, Stefan Groß, Anja Hennemuth, Lars Kaderali, Alexander Meyer, Eike Nagel, Stefan Orwat, Moritz Seiffert, Tim Friede, Tim Seidler, Sandy Engelhardt

“…Abstract Federated learning is a renowned technique for utilizing decentralized data while preserving privacy. However, real-world applications often face challenges like partially labeled datasets, where only a few locations have certain expert annotations, leaving large portions of unlabeled data unused. …”
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Evaluating the Benefit of Home Support Provider Services for Positive Airway Pressure Therapy in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Protocol for an Ambispective International R... by Sarah Alami, Manuella Schaller, Sylvie Blais, Henry Taupin, Marta Hernández González, Frédéric Gagnadoux, Paula Pinto, Irene Cano-Pumarega, Lieven Bedert, Ben Braithwaite, Hervé Servy, Stéphane Ouary, Céline Fabre, Fabienne Bazin, Joëlle Texereau

“…Given the large number of eligible participants (around 150,000), the study will use a decentralized and digital approach. A patient video will present the study objectives and the participation process. …”
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A Scalable Blockchain Framework for ELA Assessment by Chunxia Tian

“…Blockchain technology is decentralized, tamper-proof, traceable, trackable, open and transparent, which is conducive to the realization of individual student-centered teaching and learning, as well as an open, and transparent teaching process, which can motivate the learning motivation of English majors and improve the effectiveness of the student management and training models. …”
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Optimal Decision and Coordination of Fresh E-Commerce Supply Chain Considering Double Loss by Shizhen Bai, Yang Lv, Zejun Liu

“…If fresh-keeping cost is high, as freshness sensitivity increases, the retailer first reduces prices and then raises prices. (ii) Under the decentralized model, as the basic quantity loss rate and freshness sensitivity increase, product price will increase. …”
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The Organizational Structure and Operational Logic of an Urban Smart Governance Information Platform: Discussion on the Background of Urban Governance Transformation in China by Junfang Kang, Xianjun Wang

“…To do so, urban governance practices including holistic governance, decentralized and interconnected governance, multiple participatory governance, and smart governance have been developed in China. …”
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Pricing and Production Decisions for New and Remanufactured Products by Feng Wei, Yan Zhu, Ting Ma, Qiaoyan Huang, Zengshan Zhen, Jinhui Chen

“…New products are sold through an online platform (retailer R1), while remanufactured products are sold in offline physical stores (retailer R2) in a decentralized scenario. (2) In Model C, the manufacturer provides new and remanufactured units to only one retailer (retailer R) that operates both online and offline channels in a centralized scenario. …”
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Socio-psychological features of the process of transformation of the social structure of society and the process of communication in the digital space by S. Grishaeva, O. Kulikova

“…In terms of income we are talking about such a concept as “cryptocurrency” (digital decentralized money); in terms of power the information society and the possibility of using false information to influence certain social processes, which makes the presence of formal power is not so effective, - are considered; in the part of the profession the huge mass of knowledge that is contained in the Internet and that the modern education system is not able to provide tools for navigation in this mass of knowledge, - are discussed. …”
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Centralized Management For Effective Public Diplomacy: Case of Hasabara by V. V. Kabernik

“…This evolution demonstrates the shift from decentralized management and coordination paradigm towards structured complex of measures led by government bodies. …”
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A Closed-Loop Supply Chain Problem with Retailing and Recycling Competition by Chuanchao Xu, Bo Li, Yanfei Lan, Yi Tang

“…In order to analyze the impact of retailing and recycling competitions on the profits of the manufacturer and the competitive retailers, two collection models (coordinated collection (Model C) and decentralized collection (Model D)) are established, respectively. …”
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