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Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Urban Residents' Travel Carbon Emissions in Guangzhou

Lu, Jianfeng; Zhao, Jiahong; Jiang, Haiyan - In: International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) 7 (2017) 2, pp. 41-51

Transportation is an important source of carbon emissions. Since the level of urban traffic motorization enhanced quickly, the problem of carbon emissions derived from transportation has become a significant concern in recent years. It has become a key issue to study how to effectively reduce...

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Optimizing Both the User Requirements and the Load Balancing in the Volunteer Computing System by using Markov Chain Model

Ledmi, Abdeldjalil; Bendjenna, Hakim; Mounine, Hemam Sofiane - In: International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems … 14 (2018) 1, pp. 35-62

This article describes how in volunteer cloud computing systems, some resources are volunteered by the hosts. These systems became more powerful and attractive because they provide a highest power computing. However, to satisfy the user requirements and the system performance in this kind of the...

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A Comparative Analysis of the Cyberattacks Against Estonia, the United States, and Ukraine: Exemplifying the Evolution of Internet-Supported Warfare

Boyte, Kenneth J. - In: International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism (IJCWT) 7 (2017) 2, pp. 54-69

This comparative international case study of cyber warfare provides a context for considering the evolution of cyber technologies as elements of hybrid warfare capable of creating confusion, disrupting communications, and impacting physical infrastructure (such as power grids and satellite-based...

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Medicaid Expansion: Policy Impact on Home and Community-Based Services

Schmeida, Mary; McNeal, Ramona - In: International Journal of Public and Private … 2 (2018) 2, pp. 42-53

U.S. longevity is placing a demand on long-term care services for the impaired and elderly. Medicaid is the primary insurance program in funding costly long-term care for the aged poor. As a major health reform law, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148, gives...

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Barriers to Successful Health Information Exchange Systems in Canada and the USA: A Systematic Review

Almoaber, Basmah; Amyot, Daniel - In: International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems … 12 (2017) 1, pp. 44-63

the USA. Method: A systematic literature review was conducted to examine English-language studies that identified barriers … to HIE in Canada and the USA between 1995 and 2016. Electronic databases, backward searching and expert consultations … these countries. Privacy concerns and a lack of stakeholder buy-in are recurring barriers over time in the USA. Low adoption …

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A Comparative Study of Privacy Protection Practices in the US, Europe, and Asia

Ashrafi, Noushin; Kuilboer, Jean-Pierre - In: International Journal of Information Security and … 12 (2018) 3, pp. 1-15

Internet. Examining about 2000 Interactive companies in the USA, Europe, and Asia provides a measure of divergent responses to …

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Comparing the Socio-Political Ethics of Fighting Terrorism with Extreme Self-Defense in USA: An Exploratory Insight

Strang, Kenneth David; Korstanje, Maximiliano E. - In: International Journal of Risk and Contingency … 7 (2018) 1, pp. 1-19

In this study the authors adopted a post-positivist research design philosophy to explore the likelihood that Americans would support extreme self-defense policies like torture, reducing human rights or banning Muslims to fight against global terrorism, especially after 9/11 and in light of the...

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