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Correction to: How do peace dividends bring about human development and productivity?
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Credit rating prediction with supply chain information: a machine learning perspective
In this paper, we adopt an ensemble machine learning framework—a Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) and develop an algorithmic credit rating prediction model by innovatively incorporating firms’ extra ...
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Who is better off by selling extended warranties in the supply chain: the manufacturer, the retailer, or both?
An extended warranty is an additional service in the market that manufacturers and retailers provide for their customers. In this study, we investigate the optimal extended warranty strategies in a supply chai...
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Impact of structural embeddedness on the performance of tourism supply chain integration: a social network perspective
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The influence of leadership and smart level on the strategy choice of the smart logistics platform: a perspective of collaborative innovation participation
In a two-tier supply chain consisting of a smart logistics platform and a smart logistics provider, for value-added service innovation in logistics, there are usually two innovation modes: collaborative innova...
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Impact of research and development tax credits on the innovation and operational efficiencies of Internet of things companies in Taiwan
Following the emergence of the Internet, the Internet of things (IOT) brought about another wave of technological and economic revolutions. Through the lens of the production process, this study utilises the d...
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Reexamining nonlinear effects of intellectual capital on firm efficiency
This paper first gauges the level of firm efficiency using the Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data (StoNED) approach. Our firm efficiency score closely reflects a firm’s actual operating conditions wh...
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Multiplicative efficiency aggregation to evaluate Taiwanese local auditing institutions performance
This study evaluates the management efficiency and quality effectiveness of Taiwanese local auditing institutions (LAIs), whereby two outputs leave the first stage without being inputted to the second stage un...
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How do peace dividends bring about human development and productivity?
The main purpose of this study was to explore the impact of peace dividends on global changes in national productivity. First, this study assessed changes in productivity from 2005 to 2014 in various countries...
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Joint sentence and aspect-level sentiment analysis of product comments
Comments from social media platforms (such as YouTube) have become a valuable resource for manufacturers to examine public opinion toward their products. Accordingly, we propose a novel framework for automatic...
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Integration and application of rough sets and data envelopment analysis for assessments of the investment trusts industry
Approximately 40% of pension funds for military officials, civil servants, and educators in Taiwan are entrusted to international and domestic management funds. However, the average return rate for domesticall...
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An effective heuristic based on column generation for the two-dimensional three-stage steel plate cutting problem
In this study, we focus on the steel plate cutting problem (SPCP), where a set of rectangular order plates with specified demand are cut from large rectangular steel plates. The aim of solving SPCP is to minim...
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Market-reaction-adjusted optimal central bank intervention policy in a forex market with jumps
Impulse control with random reaction periods (ICRRP) is used to derive a country’s optimal foreign exchange (forex) rate intervention policy when the forex market reacts to the interventions. This paper extend...
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Simultaneous Job Scheduling and Resource Allocation on Parallel Machines
Most deterministic production scheduling models assume that the processing time of a job on a machine is fixed externally and known in advance of scheduling. However, in most realistic situations, apart from t...
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Pollution control: A differential game approach
Transnational pollution is formulated as a differential game between two sovereign governments. The symmetric open loop Nash equilibrium is shown to yield more pollution than in a cooperative solution. A model...
