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To share or not to share: the optimal advertising effort with asymmetric advertising effectiveness
In this paper, we study a two-stage model in which a manufacturer expands to a new market through a local retailer and has private information on the advertising effectiveness. The manufacturer chooses the inf...
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Severe motion blurred silkworm pupae image restoration in sex discrimination
The task of sex determination of silkworm pupae is usually accomplished using machine learning technology. However, the captured image included much blur because of live silkworm pupae’s writhing, which makes ...
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Open AccessResearch Progress of Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a new infectious disease first discovered in Ta-pieh Mountains in central China in 2009. It is caused by a novel bunyavirus infection (SFTSV). Since the fi...
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Research on a Point Cloud Registration Method of Mobile Laser Scanning and Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Mobile laser scanning can quickly and dynamically obtain a wide range of urban scene point clouds. However, due to factors such as occlusion and field of view limitation, it needs to be supplemented by terrest...
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How Did Balance Loss Occur? A Cross-stakeholder Analysis of Risk Misallocation in a Sponge City PPP Project
To address a growing number of risk misallocation issues amongst stakeholders, this study explored critical factors that influence risk misallocation from a cross-stakeholder perspective. Based on the framewor...
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Overstated product sustainability: real cases and a game-theoretical analysis
In this paper, we examine the impact of manufacturers’ dishonest reports of product sustainability. We first investigate the Volkswagen emissions scandal and Wal-Mart fake organic food scandal in terms of the ...
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QTL analysis of nodule traits and the identification of loci interacting with the type III secretion system in soybean
Symbiotic nitrogen fixation is the main source of nitrogen for soybean growth. Since the genotypes of rhizobia and soybean germplasms vary, the nitrogen-fixing ability of soybean after inoculation also varies....
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Nodulation and Genomic Capacity of a Novel High-Latitude Bradyrhizobium japonicum HLNEAU001
Rhizobium species are essential symbionts of legumes, participating in nitrogen fixation and having an important impact on the protein content of soybeans. In this study, we isolated Rhizobia from the soybean cul...
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Mining for genes encoding proteins associated with NopL of Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 using quantitative trait loci in soybean (Glycine max Merr.) recombinant inbred lines
In rhizobia, host specificity is controlled by the nodulation outer proteins (Nops). However, the host genes encoding proteins associated with Nops remain unknown.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Radar Burst Control Based on Constrained Ordinal Optimization Under Guidance Quality Constraints
Radar burst control has come into use in order to improve the survivability of combat aircraft and ensure operational effectiveness in the increasingly harsh electronic warfare environment. The critical factor...
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Design outsourcing in the fashion supply chain: OEM versus ODM
Design innovation is the engine of fashion. Many fashion firms outsource design innovation to their suppliers. Design outsourcing is on the rise in the fashion supply chain, but research in this area lags behi...
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Fashion-Retailing Inventory Management with Random Supply
We consider a fashion-retailing inventory problem in this chapter. We focus on exploring the in which the fashion retailer, which is modeled as a , places an order for a fashionable product to the fashion s...
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Scheduling jobs with release dates, equal processing times, and inclusive processing set restrictions
We consider the problem of scheduling a given set of n jobs with equal processing times on m parallel machines so as to minimize the makespan. Each job has a given release date and is compatible to only a subset ...
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Thermal stability of phosphorus-containing styrene–acrylic copolymer and its fire retardant performance in waterborne intumescent coatings
Phosphorus-containing styrene–acrylic copolymers are synthesized by free radical seeded emulsion polymerization with the monomers of MMA/St/BA/MAA and phosphorus-containing vinyl monomer (SIPOMER PAM100). The ...
