Domestication and varietal diversification of Old World cultivated cottons (Gossypium sp.) in the Antiquity by Christopher Viot

“…During the third millennium before the present, cotton cultivation, textile use and trading developed strongly in many places of the Indian Subcontinent and the Near East, but the species involved are often undetermined. …”
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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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The ‘Conquering’ Soldier-Merchants of the Balkans: Colonization, State Interventionism and Separatist Claims in the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (18th-19th Cen... by Aysel Yıldız

“…The paper contends that the tributary status of the Principalities provided a major advantage in protecting the local population against Muslim penetration, as manifested in the ensuing direct intervention of the Porte and consequent trade restrictions. From the mid-eighteenth century onwards, the policy of keeping the Muslim-Ottoman presence and activities in the region at a minimum and obtaining full liberty of trade became an important component in the struggle for economic detachment from the Ottoman orbit, which in the long run contributed to the nation-state formation in Romania.…”
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A Causal and Correlation Analysis between China Energy Futures and China Energy-Related Companies Stock Market by Yufang Liu, Chi Zhang, Wang Zhang

“…To identify the impact of INE on the related stock market, we collected high-frequency trading data of oil futures and 22 stocks owned by listed companies in the upstream and downstream of China’s oil-related industry chains, constructed a causal chain through Directed Acyclic Graph, and used MFDCCA-MODWT to perform multifractal analysis on the chain. …”
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Return and volatility spillover between cryptocurrencies, oil price and stock market in GCC countries by Hanan Haider Ali, Sumathi Kumaraswamy, Sara Al Balooshi, Yomna Abdulla

“…The diagonal BEKK method is applied to the daily trading prices of three major cryptocurrencies, crude oil and four stock market indices from January 2018 to February 2024. …”
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Du calcul biophysique à l’évaluation des risques financiers by Sylvain Maechler, Valérie Boisvert

“…The first is public accounting expressed in biophysical, material and energy units, with the aim of exposing the exploitation and unequal exchange of natural resources as an extension of unbalanced trading relations. This was followed by the gradual development of natural capital monetary accounting projects, aimed at internalizing environmental externalities, initially at the national level and later extended to private accounting. …”
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An Efficient and Lightweight Source Privacy Protecting Scheme for Sensor Networks Using Group Knowledge by Zhiqiang Ruan, Wei Liang, Decai Sun, Haibo Luo, Fanyong Cheng

“…One salient feature of the proposed scheme is its flexibility of trading transmission for higher anonymity requirement. …”
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The Internet-Based Business Model and Corporate Risk-Taking: An Empirical Study from the Information Empowerment Perspective by Lei Li, Shuili Yang

“…Reasonable risk-taking acts as a solid foreground for sustaining corporate growth. Having companies trading on Chinese stock exchanges between 2010 and 2019 sampled, this paper explored how an Internet-based business model would affect corporate risk-taking from the perspective of information empowerment. …”
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Location Decision-Making of Equipment Manufacturing Enterprise under Dual-Channel Purchase and Sale Mode by Wei Xu, Lina Liu, Qingshan Zhang, Peng Liu

“…According to the organizational layout and transaction form of equipment manufacturing enterprises, the problem of equipment manufacturing enterprise location decision-making with online channel and offline channel trading mode is divided into two categories. One is the single-plant location decision problem, and the other is the multiplant location decision problem. …”
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The effects of skewness and kurtosis on production and hedging decisions: a Gram-Charlier expansion approach by Xuejun Jiang, Lingju Cheng, Xinjie Dai

“…In other conditions, skewness can either promote or impede speculative future trading. Using the Gram-Charlier expansion of the spot price density function, we find that optimal future positions depend on forward prices, the hedgers’ risk preference, and the spot price distribution. …”
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Stackelberg Game Model of Railway Freight Pricing Based on Option Theory by Jingwei Guo, Zhongqi Xie, Qinglin Li

“…Then, the theoretical framework for the RFO contract trading is put forward in the railway freight market. …”
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Game Analysis of Supply Chain Enterprises’ Choice of Carbon Emission Reduction Behavior under Environmental Regulation and Consumers’ Low Carbon Preference by Huanhuan Huo, Haiyan Liu, Xinzhong Bao, Wei Cui

“…Increasing the carbon tax rate, carbon emission trading price and the proportion of cost subsidies, as well as encouraging consumers to consume low-carbon products will help promote the realization of cooperative carbon emission reduction.…”
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APP: An Ultralightweight Scheme to Authenticate ONS and Protect EPC Privacy without Cryptography in EPCglobal Networks by Wei Ren, Liangli Ma, Yi Ren

“…EPCglobal network is used to share product data between trading partners, which was proposed by EPCglobal. …”
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Chaetophiloscia sicula Verhoeff, 1908 (Isopoda, Oniscidea), an invasive isopod currently spreading in North America by Katalin Szlavecz, Nathan T. Jones, Franck Noël, Pepijn Boeraeve, Pallieter De Smedt

“…Keeping isopods as pets and trading them among hobbyists may also play a role especially in establishing core populations in urban centers. …”
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Disposal of In-Game Items for Consideration in Polish Personal Income Tax by Michalina Duda-Hyz

“…The first part of the study presents the features of in-game items as well as the rules for crafting and trading such items. The second part deals with the taxation of the disposal of such items for consideration by both entrepreneurs and non-business persons. …”
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Retracted: Impact of Green Financing on Carbon Drifts to Mitigate Climate Change: Mediating Role of Energy Efficiency by Lei Chang, Jianhe Wang, Ziman Xiang, Hongda Liu

“…Study findings reported that the intricate connection between place-and-time-specific GHG emission reduction responsibilities is significant with 18% and the ‘production’, trading and consumption of carbon allowances with 21% and offsets across vast time-space stretches related carbon drift is significant with 19.5% for climate change mitigation. …”
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Implementation Model Prototyping In Application Design of Halal Food Product Detection For Overseas Muslim Students by Fandisya Rahman, Bambang Minto Basuki

“…In the age of globalization, the production and trading of food have become more widespread, and consumers, particularly those who follow the Islamic faith, require access to information about the halal status of the products they consume. …”
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Everyday and Exotic Foodborne Parasites by Marilyn B Lee

“…Exotic parasites (ie, those acquired from abroad or from imported food) are of growing concern because more Canadians are travelling and the number of Canada?s trading partners is increasing. Since 1996, over 3000 cases of Cyclospora infection reported in the United States and Canada were epidemiologically associated with importation of Guatemalan raspberries. …”
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Effect of Organizational Cultural Differences and Mutual Trust on Contract Management of Nonequity Construction Project Alliances by Yanling Zhao, Yingbin Feng, Chenggang Li

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FEDECOM: Enabling cross-border energy exchange by federating energy communities [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Zia Lennard

“…It presents an overview of the FEDECOM project's goals, structure, pilot sites, and technical innovations, including peer-to-peer trading, semantic data modeling, and a novel platform architecture.…”
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