The Growth of the Commercial Sector in Space Science by J. L. Gannon, N. Lugaz

“…Abstract As space science in the commercial sector grows, new opportunities emerge for data availability and collaboration between the public and private sectors.…”
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Emergency contracting and the delivery of elective care services across the English National Health Service and independent sector during COVID-19: a descriptive analysis by Rocco Friebel, Michael Anderson, Laia Maynou, Jon Fistein

“…Discharge data from the Hospital Episode Statistics and private healthcare data from the Private Health Information Network was stratified by specialty, procedure, length of stay and patient complexity in terms of age and Charlson Comorbidity Index.Results COVID-19 significantly reduced publicly funded elective care activity, though changes were more pronounced in the independent sector (−65.1%) compared with the NHS (−52.7%), whereas reductions in privately funded elective care activity were similar in both independent sector hospitals (−74.2%) and NHS hospitals (−72.9%). …”
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On the Local Minima of the Order of Appearance Function by Florian Luca, Thato Mosima

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Ultrasonography of the ulnar nerve loop in relation to the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon by Becciolini Marco, Pivec Christopher, Riegler Georg

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RETRACTED: The role of key behavioral events in managing employee behavior at hotel-restaurant enterprises by Hakova Mira, Teslenko Tatyana

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Data Banks: A Sector not to be Neglected by Fatih Bilal Yülek

“…This paper briefly reviews the types and advantages of data banks and goes on to describe services of some of the Turkish data banks in the public and private sectors.…”
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Provably secure partially blind signature without trusted PKG by FENG Tao1, PENG Wei1, MA Jian-feng3

“…Using gap Diffie-Hellman groups, based partially blind signature scheme, an efficient ID-based partially blind signature scheme without trusted private key generator （PKG） was proposed. In this scheme, PKG was prevented from forging a legal user’s signature because it only generated partial private key. …”
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Academic progress monitoring through neural network by Ramri Shukla, Bardia Khalilian, Sara Partouvi

“…Students are classified using artificial neural networks and random forests in this article. A private higher education provider provided a dataset of 2000 students. …”
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Risk assessing and privacy-preserving scheme for privacy leakage in APP by Xinyu WANG, Ben NIU, Fenghua LI, Kun HE

“…The APP in smartphone contain various third-party services.However,the service providers illegally read the user’s private information.To address this problem,a privacy risk assessing scheme called PRAS was proposed.Firstly,a model was built to assess the risk of privacy leakage,by counting all the permissions acquired by each service providers and considering the non-linear impact of the permissions combination on privacy leakage.Then,by analyzing the balance between service quality and privacy-preserving,an optimal model was used to minimized the risk of private information leakage,and a permission management method was given to protect the privacy information among APP.The experiment results show that PRAS reduces the risk of privacy leakage by an average of 18.5%.…”
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THE IMPACTS OF POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY ON THE EFFICIENCY OF COMMERCIAL BANKS: EVIDENCE FROM EMERGING ECONOMIES by Đoàn Anh Tuấn

“…In terms of the role of ownership structure, our results provided the evidence that state-owned banks tend to have lower efficiency than comparable private banks, while no difference exists in cost efficiency between foreign-owned and domestic private banks.…”
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Metric and classification model for privacy data based on Shannon information entropy and BP neural network by Yihan YU, Yu FU, Xiaoping WU

“…Experiments show that the model can measure and classify private data with low false rate and small misjudged deviation.…”
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Analysis of the public entrepreneurship phenomenon in a Brazilian state by Magnus Emmendoerfer, Josiel Lopes Valadares

“…It should be emphasised that competition with private companies is unequal because wages in the private sector are generally much higher than that of the public sector. …”
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Disease-Related Knowledge, Stress, and Quality of Life of Parental Caregivers of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate in a Selected Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam by Phung Le Thi Kim, Leonora Collantes, Phuong Lam Hoai, An Phan Huynh, Nghia Le Trung, Tu Nguyen Thanh, Anh Nguyen Viet, Kieu Nguyen Thi Thanh, Truc Pham Thanh Luu, Phi Duong Nguyen

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The standardization of biodiversity: how politicization changes standardization for corporate sustainability reporting by Florian Zenglein

“…The study encompasses three areas: First, the participatory processes in standardization; second, the substantive prioritization of conservation considerations over economic aspects within standards; and third, the interplay between private and public standard-setting bodies. It argues that the European Union (EU) is taking on a more assertive role, shaping corporate reporting practices and the standards established by private organizations. …”
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Transportation Infrastructure Project Financing; Highways Capital Structure Design Techniques by Hanieh Soleymani, Mehdi Ravanshadnia, Mehdi Montazer

“…Whether a private bidder can win a concession depends largely on advanced financial engineering techniques, numerous methods were developed. …”
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Integration of GPS and GIS in Mapping of Secondary Schools in Akure South Local Government Area of Ondo State Nigeria by H. Tata, E.P. Ojo

“…Furthermore, the study reveals that there are more private schools than government owned secondary schools within the study area. …”
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Competition authority in a trap? A few (bitter) words on making public policy by counteracting an unfair use of a contractual advantage in agri-food sector in Poland by Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka

“…A competition authority seems to be caught in a trap of opposite (public and private) interests - an antitrust authority shall undertake an intervention in an interest of a private entity which in many situations may be seen as an intervention against public interest. …”
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Hospital solid waste management strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections from occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens and improve occupational safety by Augusto Jorge Antonio Ibáñez-Cruz, Alejandra Micaela Elena Vergara-Florián, William C. Algoner

“…In addition, the occupational health and safety of the personnel at the private clinic was improved.…”
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A Letter from a Tatar warrior to his wife by Abibullaeva E.E.

“…The work examines a letter of a private nature, which reveals several aspects from the past: the private life and relationships of people in the family, the ethics of mental behavior in society, the tactics and techniques used by the warring parties during military campaigns, the names of historical figures, the language of that time. …”
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Inclusion of Pediatric Dentistry in the Curricular Structure of Dental Courses in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil by Elisa Maria Rosa de Barros Coelho, Amanda Baptista da Silva Heck, Gabriela Fernandes Kern dos Santos, Simone Helena Ferreira, João Batista Blessmann Weber, Paulo Floriani Kramer

“…Results: There are 28 dental courses in the state (three public and 25 private). Total course load ranged from 4,000 to 4,700 hours and 80% of the courses had ten semesters. …”
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