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Mining drives extensive deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon Open
Mining poses significant and potentially underestimated risks to tropical forests worldwide. In Brazil’s Amazon, mining drives deforestation far beyond operational lease boundaries, yet the full extent of these impacts is unknown and thus …
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Airbnb, buy-to-let investment and tourism-driven displacement: A case study in Lisbon Open
Through detailed empirical analysis of a central area of Lisbon, this paper explores whether short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb channel investment in residential real estate and the way in which the local community is affected by t…
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Are medium‐scale farms driving agricultural transformation in sub‐Saharan Africa? Open
This study presents evidence of profound farm‐level transformation in parts of sub‐Saharan Africa, identifies major sources of dynamism in the sector, and proposes an updated typology of farms that reflects the evolving nature of African a…
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Hadoop Performance Modeling for Job Estimation and Resource Provisioning Open
MapReduce has become a major computing model for data intensive applications. Hadoop, an open source implementation of MapReduce, has been adopted by an increasingly growing user community. Cloud computing service providers such as Amazon …
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Can group farms outperform individual family farms? Empirical insights from India Open
Is there an alternative model to small family farming that could provide sustainable livelihoods to millions of resource-constrained and often non-viable smallholders in developing countries? Could group farming constitute such an alternat…
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A Blockchain-Based Network Slice Broker for 5G Services Open
With advent of 5G, the classical mobile network business model is shifting from a network-operator-oriented business to a more open system with several actors. In this context, the Network Slice provider will play the role of an intermedia…
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Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity Investment in Nursing Homes Open
The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in Private Equity (PE) investment in healthcare, a sector in which intensive government subsidy and market frictions could lead high-powered forprofit incentives to be misaligned with the soc…
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The Role of Product Design in Creating Circular Business Models: A Case Study on the Lease and Refurbishment of Baby Strollers Open
In the transition to a circular economy companies are exploring new business models, implying a shift from selling products to offering products in circular business models, such as leasing. Product design is thought to play a crucial role…
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Critical Interventions in Political Toponymy Open
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Uber versus Taxi: A Driver’s Eye View Open
Rideshare drivers pay a proportion of their fares to a ride-hailing platform operator, a commission-based compensation model used by many service providers. To Uber drivers, this commission is known as the Uber fee. By contrast, traditiona…
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Exploring the market for third-party-owned residential photovoltaic systems: insights from lease and power-purchase agreement contract structures and costs in California Open
We report that over the past several years, third-party-ownership (TPO) structures for residential photovoltaic (PV) systems have become the predominant ownership model in the US residential market. Under a TPO contract, the PV system host…
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The Value Relevance of Operating Lease Liabilities: Economic Effects of IFRS 16 Open
The new IASB and FASB models for leases aim to improve the quality of financial reporting. To this end, both standard setters impose the recognition of assets and liabilities for operating leases. Meanwhile, preparers have been strongly lo…
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Cloud-BIM Enabled Cyber-Physical Data and Service Platforms for Building Component Reuse Open
While the Circular Economy in the built environment is often viewed in terms of recycling, more value can be obtained from buildings and physical components by their reuse, aided by stewardship and remanufacture, to ensure optimum performa…
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Deadline sensitive lease scheduling in cloud computing environment using AHP Open
The OpenNebula is an open source environment which provides cloud resources with the help of Haizea as a lease manager. The Haizea supports different types of leases from which deadline sensitive lease is one of them. In real time, most of…
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Climate Gentrification: Risk, Rent, and Restructuring in Greater Miami Open
Despite the growing power of finance over cities and housing, the relationships between finance, climate risk management, and urban governance have yet to be examined from a climate gentrification perspective. Putting the practices of a wi…
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The Effects on Financial Leverage and Performance: The IFRS 16 Open
This paper analyses the potential impacts of the introduction of a new accounting standard, International Financial Reporting Standard 16 (IFRS 16) – Leases, on financial leverage and performance of entities. This new accounting standard w…
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The Impact of Lease Capitalisation on Financial Statements and Key Ratios: Evidence from Australia Open
The IASB/FASB exposure draft ED 2013 on lease accounting, if introduced as a standard, will fundamentally change the way that leases are accounted for and reported in financial statements. This paper seeks to provide information on the pro…
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Drivers of urban sprawl in urbanizing China – a political ecology analysis Open
Chinese cities have undergone a process of urbanization that has resulted in significant urban sprawl in the past 20 years. This paper uses the “ecology of actors” framework to analyse the interactions among various state, market and civil…
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Does Land Tenure Systems Affect Sustainable Agricultural Development? Open
The current study aims to investigate the agricultural investment differences among three kinds of land lease agreements and their effect on farmers’ decisions regarding sustainable growth in terms of soil conservation and wheat productivi…
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Brain tumor classification based on neural architecture search Open
Brain tumor is a life-threatening disease and causes about 0.25 million deaths worldwide in 2020. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is frequently used for diagnosing brain tumors. In medically underdeveloped regions, physicians who can accu…
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The Past, Present, and Future of Demand-Driven Acquisitions in Academic Libraries Open
Demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) programs have become a well-established approach toward integrating user involvement in the process of building academic library collections. However, these programs are in a constant state of evolution. A …
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The strategic use of time-limited property rights in land-use planning: Evidence from Switzerland Open
While land-use plans are regularly revised, property rights are extremely stable over time. Yet, the stability of property rights resulting from the current conception of exclusive ownership makes the implementation of land-use plans incre…
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An enhanced deadline constraint based task scheduling mechanism for cloud environment Open
In this work, we present a scheduling mechanism for deadline sensitive task or lease. It is very impelling and challenging to allocate on-demand resources within the deadline rather than rejecting the lease. The work studies the insight of…
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Bringing satellites back from the dead: Mission extension vehicles give defunct spacecraft a new lease on life - [News] Open
Satellites nearing the end of their time in service may soon find themselves with a new lease on life. Earlier this year, a satellite on the verge of being decommissioned was put back into play thanks to Northrop Grumman's Mission Extensio…
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A Deep Learning Model Generation Framework for Virtualized Multi-Access Edge Cache Management Open
To reduce the network traffic and service delay in next-generation networks, popular contents (videos and music) are proposed to be temporarily stored in the cache located at the edge nodes such as base stations. The challenging issue in t…
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Sharing-Dominant Logic? Quantifying the Association between Consumer Intelligence and Choice of Social Access Modes Open
With sharing economy and access-based consumption, consumers increasingly access goods through social access modes other than private ownership—such as co-ownership, leasing, or borrowing. Prior research focuses on consumers’ attitudinal m…
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nZEB Retrofit of a Concrete Large Panel Apartment Building Open
The paper discusses energy renovation scenarios from major renovation to nZEB level for apartment buildings in Estonia (cold climate). The study analyses energy usage and economic viability taking into account a possible increase in the le…
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Eliciting preferences of TNC users and drivers: Evidence from the United States Open
Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) are changing the transportation ecosystem, but micro-decisions of travelers and TNC drivers need to be better understood to assess their system-level impacts. Using a unique sample (N = 11,902) of th…
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Digital trade coin: towards a more stable digital currency Open
We study the evolution of ideas related to creation of asset-backed currencies over the last 200 years and argue that recent developments related to distributed ledger technologies and blockchains give asset-backed currencies a new lease o…
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Ecological Responsiveness and Corporate Real Estate Open
Firms’ real estate choices significantly affect their sustainability, due to real estate’s impact on the natural environment. This paper investigates the ecological responsiveness of firms in specific industries by analyzing the decisions …