Access to land is crucial for food systems address the challenges caused by habitat and biodiversity loss, water degradation, greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable production requires security upstream agricultural production. Land emanates from law implemented in-country government policy. In span of a decade (2007–2017), three different reforms have been adopted in Benin. This paper aims inve...

This paper makes a case for the use of design in business-to-business marketing. Although design most clearly is a competitive asset in consumer marketing, the vertical connections force upstream use of design. This development coincides and complements corporate and product branding, where design is seen as a way to verify and sustain the claims given in branding. Finally, the paper contains s...

The impact of patent protection on biomedical innovation has been a controversial issue. Although a ‘medical anti-commons’ has been predicted as a result of a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now emerging. However, most industrial surveys that shed light on this issue are mainly from developed countries, making it very difficult to predi...

This paper details the treatment of performance data in outsourced call centre operations, as encountered by a team of researchers throughout the course of a project. This project aimed at improving support for performance and motivation management in an outsourced customer care contact centre for a large telecommunications company. In particular, we focus on how the practices of capturing, agg...

abstract one of the most important sources of drinking and agricultural water needs is rivers. one of the oldest methods of getting water from rivers that still has the greatest use is the gravity intake. in this type of intake, due to the disproportionate velocity at the upstream and downstream mouth of intake, occur flow separation and following sedimentation at the upstream mouth. in this st...

The literature on the value of information sharing within a supply chain is extensive. The bulk of the literature has focused on two-level supply chains that supply a single product. However, modern supply chains often have more than two levels and supply many products. Because many of these products are variants of the same base product, they tend to be substitutes and their demands correlated...

Abstract This paper documents the structure of flow and bed morphology a cutoff meander Danube River in relationship with GIS approach. The cutoffs effect produce changes repartition water sediment fluxes between natural channel manmade canal, direct implications on environmental evolution delta. Dranov de Jos (Lower ‒ LDM) belt seems to be one most affected by rectification works performed Sfâ...

Preliminary works have already been performed between IRCCyN, IRAP and CNES. In particular, the paper [1] proposes a blind estimation method under the assumption of a purely linear response. A possible direction of the proposed project could be to generalize the latter method. On the one hand, an affine model would be more realistic. On the other hand, a totally unsupervised method would be pre...

Recent advances in the study of spontaneous brain activity have demonstrated activity patterns that emerge with no task performance or sensory stimulation; these discoveries hold promise for the study of higher-order associative network functionality. Additionally, such advances are argued to be relevant in pathological states, such as disorders of consciousness (DOC), i.e., coma, vegetative an...