The recent Russia–Ukraine conflict has raised significant concerns about global food security, leaving many countries with restricted access to imported staple crops, particularly wheat and sunflower oil, sending prices soaring other adverse consequences in the supply chain. This detrimental effect is prominent for low-income relying on grain imports, record-high inflation affecting their livel...

Increasingly high growth rates in the world, especially developing countries like Indonesia, have reduced area of agricultural land, thereby reducing food production. Rice is one staple ingredients which an important commodity, Indonesia because rice main consumption ingredient for people to obtain carbohydrate intake. This study discusses implementation data mining increasing production North ...

Grasses are cosmopolitan yet an important component in ecology. The current human population readily relies on grasses as many Poaceae species provide staple carbohydrate sources and feed to livestock. Ecologically grass plays a vital role pioneer inhabitant well sustaining immense biodiversity within the community. Fungi play pivotal maintaining shaping communities. occur commensals, saprobes,...

BACKGROUND The field of orthopaedics is a constantly evolving discipline. Despite the historical success of plates, pins and screws in fracture reduction and stabilisation, there is a continuing search for more efficient and improved methods of fracture fixation. The aim of this study was to evaluate shape-memory staples and to compare them to a currently used implant for internal fracture fixa...

The electronic market hypothesis (EMH) predicts that by reducing coordination costs, information technology (IT) will shift industrial organization from hierarchical to market-based forms of economic activity. While academic researchers and practitioners have witnessed these shifts with the advent of the Internet, there is little understanding about the process and the underlying forces that dr...

Much of the early research in electronic markets suggested that the proliferation of ecommerce would ultimately threaten the presence of intermediaries in electronic value chains. However, a careful analysis of the structure and functions of electronic marketplaces indicates that intermediaries provide many value-adding functions that cannot be easily substituted or ‘internalised’ through direc...

We examine the relative and complementary effectiveness of trust-building strategies in online environments. While prior research has examined various antecedents to trust, we investigated two trust-building mechanisms more in depth: Web site trust and vendor reputation. We tried to understand the relative effectiveness of these two important mechanisms to provide online businesses with a clear...

European businesses today are showing a significant interest in the concept of business process redesign, not in the least because its advocates promise a dramatic decrease in costs and a similar increase in sales. Since information and communication technology seem to play enabling roles, one can expect electronic markets to be significantly contributing to the effects of business process rede...