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This paper assesses the role shipping and logistics foreign direct investment (FDI) plays in developing country export performance, exemplified by the case of the large multinational corporation (MNC) Maersk’s investments in Vietnam. The paper …

With the development of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC), the recovery rate of construction waste is improved, and the pollution problem is alleviated. In particular, RAC beams strengthened with prestressed carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) …

The Smart Grid (SG) heavily depends on the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) technology, which has shown its vulnerability to intrusions. To effectively monitor and raise alarms in response to anomalous activities, the Intrusion Detection …

With the rapid development of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and the increasing concern for personal health, sharing Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data is widely recognized as a crucial method for enhancing the quality of care and …

The paper focuses on enhancing the understanding of treatment processes, particularly in healthcare, through process visualization. Healthcare processes are complex and data-rich due to Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Existing visualization …

The idea of “smart agriculture” is still relatively new, but it refers to the use of modern technology to provide information about agricultural areas and then take appropriate action based on feedback from consumers. It combines important …

Equivalence class signatures (EQS), introduced by Hanser and Slamanig (AC’14, J. Crypto’19), sign vectors of elements from a bilinear group. Their main feature is “adaptivity”: given a signature on a vector, anyone can transform it to a (uniformly …

This chapter examines the reasons behind the widespread utilization of military contractorsMilitary contractor. To address this question, the paper develops the contentious of previous scholarly work to argue that the extended use of military …