Recent Advances in Sharding Techniques for Scalable Blockchain Networks: A Review by Brandon Liew Yi Quan, Nur Haliza Abdul Wahab, Arafat Al-Dhaqm, Ahmad Alshammari, Ali Aqarni, Shukor Abd Razak, Koh Tieng Wei

“…Blockchain is a technology that has gained popularity in recent years due to its immutability and decentralized features. Various industries have started integrating this technology into their business models, resulting in the development of various types of blockchain networks. …”
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Task Offloading with LLM-Enhanced Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in UAV-Assisted Edge Computing by Feifan Zhu, Fei Huang, Yantao Yu, Guojin Liu, Tiancong Huang

“…To address these challenges, this paper introduces an innovative multi-agent deep learning framework that conceptualizes multi-UAV trajectory optimization as a decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP). …”
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Optimization of Solar Hybrid Power Generation Using Conductance-Fuzzy Dual-Mode Control Method by S. Ramesh, J. Seetha, G. Ramkumar, Satyajeet Sahoo, T. M. Amirthalakshmi, A. Ranjith, Asiful H. Seikh, Sohail M. A. Khan Mohammed, Ram Subbiah

“…This study’s approach incorporates a decentralized power generation system with a HESS while increasing electrical output in phases utilizing a dynamic reactive power compensation scheme and a conductance-fuzzy dual-mode control strategy. …”
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Blockchain enabled traceability in the jewel supply chain by Aman Patel, Siva Sai, Ankit Daiya, Harshal Akolekar, Vinay Chamola

“…Blockchain operates as a secure, immutable ledger, ensuring data integrity and transparency while preventing fraud and tampering due to its decentralized nature. Ethereum’s key features, including nodes, addresses, and smart contracts, make it an ideal platform for this application. …”
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ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REGIME OF THE NORTHERN DELIVERY AS A FACTOR OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH AND THE ARCTIC ZONE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION by Galina V. Goncharuk

“…With the country's transition to a market economy, the implementation of northern delivery activities was transferred to the level of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The decentralized model is characterized by disruptions in the supply of goods, their narrow range, low volume and inflated prices. …”
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Models of Russia's Participation in Regional Economic Integration by D. I. Ushkalova

“…In particular, creation of system of decentralized organizations is proposed, for the implementation of specific cooperation projects in selected areas, taking into account the multiplier effect of such a "point-aimed" action/…”
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Carbon Dioxide Turbine Expander Plant Producing Liquid and Gaseous Carbon Dioxide by A. V. Ovsyannik

“…The scheme of carbon dioxide cogeneration and trigeneration plant with the use of secondary energy resources in the form of combustion products or flue gases that enables to produce electricity, thermal energy and cold for centralized and decentralized supply of consumers simultaneously, is presented. …”
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The Effect of Fairness Concern on Carbon Emission Reduction and Revenue Distribution in Construction Supply Chain: Power Structure Perspective by Wen Jiang, Linqing Pu, Ting Huang, Li Yuan, Lu Gan

“…This paper constructs the centralized model and the decentralized models, respectively, and studies the emission reduction and revenue distribution strategies of construction supply chain considering fairness concern and cap-and-trade. …”
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Emergence of Coordination in Growing Decision-Making Organizations: The Role of Complexity, Search Strategy, and Cost of Effort by Friederike Wall

“…However, the search strategy shapes the predominance of hierarchy in favor of granting more autonomy to decentralized decision-makers. Moreover, the study reveals that the cost of effort for implementing new solutions in conjunction with the search strategy may remarkably affect the emerging form of coordination. …”
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Integrated and streamlined microfluidic device for molecular diagnosis of pathogen through direct PCR amplification by Dohwan Lee, Tae Seok Seo

“…Significance: Considering how prominent PCR is for diagnostics, this work represents the potential to make traditionally labor-intensive molecular assays available in a decentralized point-of-care setting.…”
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CULTURAL COUNCIL AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN CULTURE - NEW LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF MANAGEMENT AND FINANCING by Dragan Zlatović, Mirko Škarica, Ante Galić

“…By establishing cultural councils, the cultural policy of the Republic of Croatia follows the principles of contemporary cultural policy, whereby decision-making and co-decision-making on cultural issues are decentralized and directed to the levels of local and regional administration units: counties, cities, or municipalities, with the introduction of various modalities of participatory management, including the establishment of cultural Council. …”
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EdgeSecureDP: Strengthening IoHTs Differential Privacy Through Graphvariate Skellam by Mohamed Amjath, Shagufta Henna

“…Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution, enabling decentralized devices to collaboratively train machine learning models while ensuring privacy and security in healthcare applications. …”
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Wealth-related inequality in women healthcare-seeking behaviour for under-five children illness in Afghanistan: evidence from 2022 Afghanistan Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey by Conrad Murendo

“…There is need for decentralizing health facilities in both rural and urban areas to improve equitable access to healthcare services. …”
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Incentive Mechanism Design for Distributed Autonomous Organizations Based on the Mutual Insurance Scenario by Yiguang Pan, Xiaomei Deng

“…Due to the cognitive defects of the blockchain protocol in terms of intelligent contracts and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), it is often unclear as to how to make decisions about the evolution of blockchain applications. …”
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A data pipeline for secure extraction and sharing of social determinants of health. by Tyler Schappe, Lisa M McElroy, Moronke Ogundolie, Roland Matsouaka, Ursula Rogers, Nrupen A Bhavsar

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We created a pipeline centered around Decentralized Geomarker Assessment for Multi-Site Studies (DeGAUSS) that utilizes containerization to geocode patient addresses and obtain neighborhood-level SDOH variables. …”
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Une activité touristique et de loisir « amphibie » entre espaces de pratiques et territoires de gestion : la plaisance by Ewan Sonnic

“…The lack of coincidence between practice spaces and management spaces is such as to lead several actors (territorial collectivities, decentralized services of the State, research departments, associations…) to operate more and more within the framework of territories copied on practice spaces. …”
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Multi-Objective Dynamic Path Planning with Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning by Mengxue Tao, Qiang Li, Junxi Yu

“…The approach consists of two components: an action evaluation module and an action decision module, utilizing a centralized training with decentralized execution (CTDE) training architecture. …”
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A semi-synchronous federated learning framework with chaos-based encryption for enhanced security in medical image sharing by Animesh Roy, Deva Raj Mahanta, Lipi B. Mahanta

“…A novel semi-synchronous, decentralized, privacy-enhancing Federated Learning (FL) model built on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is put forth. …”
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CS-FL: Cross-Zone Secure Federated Learning with Blockchain and a Credibility Mechanism by Chongzhen Zhang, Hongye Sun, Zhaoyu Shen, Dongyu Wang

“…By constructing a dual-layer blockchain network and introducing a blockchain ledger between zone servers, CS-FL establishes a decentralized trust mechanism for index detection and model aggregation. …”
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The status of Circassian princes in the 17th century: Independent Inaledes by F.A. Ozova

“…However, these data are unique with regard to the political history of Circassia in the 17th century, which was a decentralized monarchy of representatives of nobility in the form of a federative princely republic. …”
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