The (In)Human Condition by Vicky Angelaki

“…As the article goes on to demonstrate, Stephens, Nübling and their international team of collaborators arrive at a staging method that is both aesthetically intuitive and politically astute in order to offer rigorous stage commentary on the state of sex trade - and especially sex slavery - in our time. …”
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Convergence Rates in the Law of Large Numbers for Arrays of Banach Valued Martingale Differences by Shunli Hao

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Sahara en mouvement by Dominique Casajus

“…And again, the current migrations in the Sahara desert were preceded by other migrations, even if those took place under the duress of the slave trade. We cannot say that the Sahara has remained unchanged for centuries, but the movements and ideas that travel through it were not born yesterday.…”
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THE STAGES OF FIRM LIFE CYCLE AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE RATIOS FOR COMPANIES OF INDUSTRY by Mirosław Wasilewski, Joanna Żurakowska

“…However, this stands in opposition to both the trade-off theory, and the research conducted on several Polish companies. …”
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Video Traffic Flow Analysis in Distributed System during Interactive Session by Soumen Kanrar, Niranjan Kumar Mandal

“…This work presents the novel bandwidth requirement model at the interactive session and gives the trade-off in communication and storage costs for different system resource configurations.…”
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Time-varying interlinkages between digitalization, globalization, and carbon emission in Vietnam by Pham Hong Chuong, To Trung Thanh, Le Thanh Ha

“…Our results indicate that the Internet outbreak significantly determined the system-wide dynamic connectedness, especially between 1999 and 2006. Meanwhile, trade openness continuously serves as the net shock receiver of the system, but it fluctuated significantly before 2006. …”
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Compass, oceans and world politics. Book review of the collective monograph ‘International relations: Facets of the present and the future’ by A. V. Belinsky

“…The monograph touches upon both the ‘classical’ factors of international relations (military power, energy, trade) and a number of new ones, which have acquired particular importance as the international system entered a period of profound transformation. …”
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Iranian Merchants as a Religious Community in Late Ottoman Istanbul by Abdülkadir Yeler

“…Long-term peace between the Ottoman Empire and Iran provided an opportunity for Iranians to carry out various activities, especially trade, in the Ottoman Empire. Istanbul, the link between Asia and Europe, had become a point of interest to Iranian merchants as early as the 18th century, but it was particularly during the second half of the 19th century that one could speak of a well-organized Iranian community at the heart of the social and commercial life of the city. …”
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The European Union Counteraction To Israel's Settlement Policy In The Occupied Arab Territories: Myths And Realities by A. V. Krylov

“…More than 50 years the European Union member states (the European Economic Community up to 1993) maintain a special relations with Israel particularly in the trade sphere. Only in 2014 the export of Israeli products to Europe increased by 3%, amounting in absolute terms to a third of total exports of Israel. …”
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Cooperation and subcontracting enterprises as a form of deepening the process of integration within the Eurasian Economic Union by A. A. Urunov, I. M. Morozova

“…The authors carry out the analysis of the dynamics of cooperative supplies between the EAEU member states in the sectoral context, as well as the analysis of structural shifts in trade in intermediate goods in the context of the participating countries. …”
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Estimation of International Gold Price by Fusing Deep/Shallow Machine Learning by Wenjing Chen

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Research framework for food security and sustainability by Effie Papargyropoulou, John Ingram, Guy M. Poppy, Tom Quested, Clara Valente, Lee Ann Jackson, Tim Hogg, Thom Achterbosch, Emanuele Paolo Sicuro, Susanne Bryngelsson, Isabelle Guelinckx, Peter Van Dael, Louise Dye

“…The framework emphasises the need for coordinated action across multiple scales and sectors, focusing on synergies and trade-offs as opposed to isolated food activities, to address complex challenges in food security and sustainability.…”
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Development of a mechanism for managing market strategies of the Russian metallurgical industry in modern conditions by A. E. Terpugov

“…The sanctions restrictions mutually applied against Russia by the countries of the European Union and the United States, and escalated in 2022, led to the destruction of established trade and financial flows, which seriously complicated the work of the Russian metallurgy. …”
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Les communs comme infrastructure institutionnelle de l’économie marchande by Gilles Allaire

“…This paper concerns the immaterial common resources systems which form the cultural environment of production, trade and administration activities. It suggests that the commons make up an infrastructure of modern market economies. …”
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Dose-Dependent Differentiation of Gamma-Irradiated Hazelnut Samples by Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy Coupled with Chemometrics by Ayca Dogan, Mete Severcan, Feride Severcan

“…Therefore, the detection of high-dose irradiated food samples is a critical issue in international trade. The objective of this work is to evaluate the potential of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy for the differentiation of γ-irradiated hazelnuts at higher doses (3 kGy and 10 kGy) from the lower (1.5 kGy) and nonirradiated ones using multivariate statistical analysis, namely, principal component analysis (PCA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). …”
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for the BRI success by Yongjun Chen, Chenglong Guo

“…In the first stage of jointly building the BRI, the key to turn the initiative's potential into reality is to develop the “Five Links” of policy coordination, infrastructure connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and people‐to‐people bond. …”
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THE STAGES OF FIRM LIFE CYCLE AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE RATIOS FOR COMPANIES OF INDUSTRY by Mirosław Wasilewski, Joanna Żurakowska

“…However, this stands in opposition to both the trade-off theory, and the research conducted on several Polish companies. …”
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Robust and Energy-Efficient Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Network by Juan Feng, Baowang Lian, Hongwei Zhao

“…Furthermore, an adaptive scheduling scheme is proposed to trade off energy consumption on each node and data forwarding delay. …”
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Carbon Footprint Principles and Challenges in Transport Logistics by Kenn Steger-Jensen, Hans-Henrik Hvolby, Sven Vestergaard, Mihai Neagoe, Carsten Svensson

“…Operators need increased focus on reducing the carbon impact and calculating their actual carbon emissions. EU's Emissions Trading System comes into force from 2027 and works on the 'cap and trade' principle. …”
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Agriculture in Poland and Ukraine – Potential and Dynamics of Changes in Production by Ludwik Wicki, Mykola Orlykovskyi, Lesia Zaburanna

“…A great opportunity is the development of trade in the conditions of affiliation with the EU.…”
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