Sustainable assessment of ultrasound-assisted extraction of anthocyanins with bio-based solvents for upgrading grape pomace Cabernet Sauvignon derived from a winemaking process by Andrés Córdova, Sebastián Catalán, Vinka Carrasco, Fabiane O. Farias, Julia Trentin, Jessica López, Fernando Salazar, Cassamo U. Mussagy

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Optimization of laccase production by Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) P. Kumm. using agro-industrial residues: a comparative study on peels of tucumã (Astrocaryum aculeatum G. Mey.) an... by Kevyn Melo Lotas, Raissa Sayumy Kataki Fonseca, Joice Camila Martins da Costa, Ana Claudia Alves Cortez, Francisca das Chagas do Amaral Souza, Márcio Rodrigues Barreto, Lívia Melo Carneiro, João Paulo Alves Silva, Eveleise Samira Martins Canto, Flávia da Silva Fernandes, João Vicente Braga de Souza, Érica Simplício de Souza

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Privacy-preserving digital rights management scheme in cloud computing by Qin-long HUANG, Zhao-feng MA, Jing-yi FU, Yi-xian YANG, Xin-xin NIU

“…In addition, the pro-posed scheme also allows the users to purchase content and acquire license anonymously from cloud service provider, which protects the user privacy and prevents cloud service provider, license server and key server in the cloud from collecting the user's sensitive information. …”
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GENERATION Z: CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM by T. A. Beregovskaya, S. A. Grishaeva

“…As a result of the study, the opportunities (consumer’s independent choice of means of interaction with the manufacturer, channel shifting in the process of purchasing, interaction with the manufacturer regardless from the chosen communication channel) and barriers (absence of isolated online channels for sales, usage of slow-loading Internet platforms with inconvenient interfaces, absence of a dedicated app or limited possibilities of its usage, etc.) of omnichannel marketing implementation for the Generation Z target audience have been revealed. …”
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Feira livre e reprodução camponesa no município de Irará/BA by Andréia Silva de Alcântara, Noeli Pertile

“…Consequently, the fair of the municipality of Irará is the space where the local economy moves, where the work of the peasant materializes in the currency of purchase and exchange. It is the space that guarantees peasant reproduction and, at the same time, weaves the relations between the countryside and the city.…”
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Playing the Game, or Not: Reframing Understandings of Children’s Digital Play by Magladry Madison, Willson Michele

“…Game developers see opportunities for data collection, surveillance and for nudging children’s behaviour and purchases. Many of these fears, hopes, and hype are replaying older tropes that circulate around any new technology, media forms and associated changes in practices, but are amplified further by having children as their central focus. …”
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Mykonos: a place of experimentation for the gastronomy-world relationship by Olivier Etcheverria

“…The purchase of souvenirs is one of the activities realized by visitors as part of the tourist experience at a given destination. …”
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The Impact of the Public Procurement Control System on the Hungarian Public Administration by Györgyi Nyikos, Gábor Soós

“…The purpose of the article is to explore the functioning of the control system related to EU funded public procurements and to examine its actual and potential impact on the purchases of public authorities. The method is first an introduction of the features of the control system and then the analysis of data from the relevant bodies in order to see the effect of controls and possible difficulties with the system. …”
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Pratiques d’utilisation des pesticides en agriculture maraîchère de bas-fonds dans la ville de Yaoundé by Georges Yannick Fangue-Yapseu, Marina Awa Ntapnze-Mouliom, Romaric Armel Mouafo-Tchinda

“…However, only 43% often use it due to lack of money for the purchase of synthetic pesticides (71%). In addition, 66% of them believe that wild plant extracts are not likely to replace synthetic pesticides in agriculture. …”
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Towards a cyber ecology by Carlo Ratti, Daniele Belleri

“…The first side of the coin – making the natural world into an artificially-enhanced ‘cyborg’ – has already gained momentum and cultural purchase. The other path – animating the artificial world to make it work in harmony with nature and living things – is a place where we have only just begun to take our first steps. …”
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Beyond the Niche Hypothesis. Property, Marriage, and the Onset of Familial Reproduction in Rural Northwest Germany, 1820–1866 by Georg Fertig

“…Second, marriages resulted from the accumulation of an appropriate marriage fund, as indicated by the results that purchases of land and favorable relative prices contributed to the conclusion of marriages. …”
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Comparative study of consumer satisfaction offline shopping and online using e-commerce Tokopedia to loyalty during the Covid-19 pandemic by Irene Vikining Astuty R, Kiromim Baroroh

“…Where when consumers make transactions directly, consumers tend to be more daring in making decisions in shopping because consumers are able to choose, see and touch directly the goods or products to be purchased so that they will make their own commitment to the product, brand and store.…”
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An Integrated Methodology for Supplier Selection under the Presence of Vagueness: A Case in Banking Sector, Turkey by Semih Onut, Suleyman Tosun

“…Also customers can be considered as the companies to purchase the suppliers’ technical expertise. Hence, this kind of relationship can be analyzed as a house of quality model typical of quality function deployment (QFD). …”
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Product Selection and Components Replenishment Model of ATO Manufacturer under Heterogeneous Demand by Yuyu Li, Bo Huang

“…We found that an ATO manufacturer should make the performance and qualities of products over a certain level, and determine the optimal selling duration of products according to their selling prices and qualities, as well as the purchase prices and holding costs of their components. …”
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COVID-19 LOCKDOWN AND THE CHALLENGES OF FOOD INSECURITY AMONG HOUSEHOLDS IN SELECTED COMMUNITIES IN ZARIA AND SABON-GARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA by Mu’azu Ahmed Mohammed

“… The restriction of people’s movement during Covid-19 lockdown has affected the abilities of many families in securing, either from their own production or through purchases, adequate food for meeting the dietary needs of their members in Zaria and Sabon-gari Local Government Areas of Kaduna State, Nigeria. …”
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ORGANIC FOOD POSITIONING: HOW DO COMPANIES WANT THEIR BRAND TO BE PERCEIVED BY CONSUMERS? by Mihai STOICA

“…The intensification of consumers' concerns for personal health protection has conducted, among other things, to a change in purchasing behavior toward organic food. However, emerging markets are still characterized by low levels of organic food consumption. …”

Risk Preferences of EV Fleet Aggregators in Day-Ahead Market Bidding: Mean-CVaR Linear Programming Model by Izabela Zoltowska

“…This paper introduces a mean profit- conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) model for purchasing electricity on the day-ahead market (DA) by electric vehicles fleet aggregator (EVA). …”
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A Group of Bronze Lamps from Demre Museum by Ünal Demirer

“…No. 5) were found in mixed contexts during scientific archaeological excavations, while the other nine oil lamps entered the museum’s inventory through purchase or forced acquisition. Since there is no link between the lamps, the order of examination is based on the chronology provided by similar examples, which help to date the lamps. …”
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Les nouvelles frontières des Jeux Anthropologiques de Saint-Louis by Fabrice Delsahut

“…Louis, the Olympic competitions were lost in the chaos of a World Fair called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. The Olympic Games could not escape the rise in the racist ideologies of the 20th century and they contributed to the discussing of the athletic merit of the different races. …”
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Narratives of Social Mobility in the Post-Industrial Working Class and the Use of Credit in Chilean Households by Alejandro Marambio-Tapia

“…It has become a valuable asset for achieving the goal of providing a « decent life » and is at the core of the lower-income groups’ purchasing and budgeting practices. I will argue that this empirical method shows how the financialisation of household economies is more than a unidirectional process and that household arrangements, particularly moral ones, influence the use of credit and everyday economic behaviour. …”
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