Due to the embeddedness of organisations in networks, collaborations, and business relationships, knowledge leakage has become a common concern. In this regard, this paper aims to investigate drivers of knowledge leakage in collaborative agreements u...
Background: The uptake of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) has revolutionized the fight against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic. Consistent obstacles remain that have influenced the slow uptake of PrEP in the United States of America (...
This article describes the history and evolution of pharmacist-physician collaborative practice agreements (CPAs) in the United States with future directions to support pharmacists’ provider status as the profession continues to evolve from product-o...
Liner shipping companies commonly pursue strategies such as forming strategic alliances and attracting new customers to strengthen competitiveness and improve operational performance. However, in the shipping of perishable goods, inadequate ship sche...
The development of new technologies within Industry 4.0 (I4.0) may serve as a catalyst in the development of sustainable practices (SP), particularly in the case of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This paper contributes to the literature by exam...
Challenges with primary care access and overextended providers present opportunities for pharmacists as patient care extenders for chronic disease management. The primary objective was to align primary care pharmacist services with organizational pri...
17 November 2022
The supply of mental health processes in primary care has gaps. This study aims to analyze the association of agreement criteria and flows between primary care teams and the Family Health Support Center (NASF) for mental health collaborative care, co...
As Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) are highly vulnerable to security threats such as identity spoofing, session replay and man-in-the-middle attacks in open-air channels, it is crucial to design an authentication key agreement (AKA) scheme to ensure...
Blockchain-assisted authentication frameworks have been introduced to mitigate the single point-of-failure problem in centralized IoT collaboration environments. Recently, a lightweight trust management framework based on a permissioned blockchain wa...
To address the challenge of satisfying strict Service-Level Agreement (SLA) requirements for concurrent smart video surveillance tasks in heterogeneous edge computing environments, an SLA-aware adaptive scheduling algorithm for heterogeneous computin...
Pharmacists are often the first point of contact for healthcare advice in rural communities, where access to healthcare is limited. Tobacco cessation rates improve with counseling from a pharmacist, and in many states, pharmacists can now prescribe m...
Real-time collaborative editing applications are drastically different from typical client–server applications in that every participant has a copy of the shared document. In this type of environment, each participant acts as both a client and a serv...
For resilience building, cities need to foster learning and innovation processes among all actors in order to develop transformative capacities of urban governance regimes to manage extraordinary situations as well as continuous change. A close colla...
Recent advances in the literature regarding local government and governance are demonstrating that models of intermunicipal cooperation are becoming widespread and having an impact on both the organizational dimension and the policy making/service pl...
The literature has highlighted that relationship learning constitutes a value creation pathway in business and non-profit collaborations. However, this process has not been studied in detail. The main objective of this study was to carry out an in-de...
The assessment of transboundary aquifers is essential for the development of groundwater management strategies and the sustainable use of groundwater resources. The Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Program (TAAP) is a joint effort by the United State...
Collaborative dispute resolution is essential in natural resource management in the process of negotiating solutions to environmental issues. Our study aims to look at the factors which appear to contribute to the effectiveness of collaborative probl...
As a growing number of companies reject intellectual property (IP) monopoly-based business models to embrace libre product development of free and open source hardware and software, there is an urgent need to refurbish the instruments of university-c...
Introduction/Objectives: Intersectoral collaboration between education and mental health services is central to the care of autistic children and adolescents. However, recent literature indicates that evidence remains limited regarding how these coll...
The IEA Implementing Agreement (IA) “Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Technologies and Programmes” is an international working group of actual 17 governments interested in hybrid-, fuel cell- and electric vehicles. It works as a platform for information e...
29 October 2021
Introduction: Outcome-based agreements (OBAs) are occasionally deployed to relieve the burden of high drug prices on healthcare budgets. However, it is not clear when manufacturers are willing to collaborate in establishing such agreements. Therefore...
With the rapid popularization of current Internet of Things (IoT) technology and 5G networks, as well as the continuous updating of new service lifestyles and businesses, the era of big data processing for the IoT has arrived. However, centralizing a...
Almost 30 million babies worldwide are born prematurely or become ill annually and need specialized care to survive. Formalized collaborative practice agreements (CPA) between clinical pharmacists and physicians have been put forward as a means for i...
The transport sector needs to drastically reduce its carbon footprint to comply with the Paris Agreement. In today’s sharing economy, an emerging strategy to contribute to this goal is horizontal collaboration. However, most studies on horizont...
The objective of this paper was to estimate the influence of being affiliated with an NH chain on perceived consumer quality, and whether this relationship is affected by maintaining a collaboration agreement with public administrations. We used a co...
11 August 2022
The development of a regionally integrated economy promotes the development of river basin ecological compensation toward cross-regional coordinated governance. The ecological compensation in the Yangtze River Delta has developed by leaps and bounds,...
Masses of heavy baryons are calculated in the framework of the relativistic quark-diquark picture and QCD. The obtained results are in good agreement with available experimental data including recent measurements by the LHCb Collaboration. Possible q...
Multidisciplinary tumor boards (MTBs) are essential for optimizing cancer care through collaborative decision-making. However, the concordance between initial surgeons’ recommendations and MTB outcomes, particularly in resource-limited settings...
There is wide agreement about the importance of transdisciplinary research to address complex sustainability issues. Although there is a growing body of literature about the management of transdisciplinary research programmes as well as the challenge...
Coastal ecosystems are becoming less resilient under climate (e.g., sea-level rise, warming, acidification) and human (e.g., urbanization, coastal hardening, and river regulation) pressures, forcing local communities to face increasing risk levels. T...
Yolŋu Aboriginal understandings of the body, health, life and sickness, and roles their ancestral epistemologies and knowledge practices play in making agreement have seldom been taken seriously in the biomedical world. In this paper, we describe how...
Scientific communication, collaboration and progress are enhanced through the exchange of data, materials and ideas. Recent advances in technology, commercial proprietary discovery and current local and global events (e.g., emerging human, animal and...
For higher-education leaders, a formal inter-institutional agreement is often treated as evidence of collaboration, yet an agreement on paper is no guarantee of one in practice. This study examines a theoretically extreme single case: a Korean univer...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) established a Technology Collaboration Program (formerly called Implementing Agreement) on “Hybrid and Electric Vehicles” in 1994. Today there are 17 member countries that participate in 12 working groups related...
For nearly four decades, the Great Lakes regime has invoked the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement as the mechanism for binational cooperation on programs and policies. Many advances in water quality have led to unquestionable improvements in ecosys...
Graph contrastive learning has demonstrated significant superiority for collaborative filtering. These methods typically use augmentation technology to generate contrastive views, and then train graph neural networks with contrastive learning as an a...
Setting up an interprofessional team for antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) to improve the quality and safety of antimicrobial use in primary care is essential but challenging. This study aimed to investigate the convergent and divergent attitudes and v...
(1) Purpose: Incoherent processes in production of lepton pairs (dileptons) are studied for the scattering of protons on nuclei. Methods: New quantum mechanical model is constructed on the basis (1) generalization of the nuclear model of emission of...
Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) use relatively high quantities of healthcare resources and have overall higher morbidity than the general pediatric population. Embedding clinical pharmacists into the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCM...
In 2015, the Belgian Health Ministers launched a plan intended to evolve towards an integrated care system for chronic patients. This plan is implemented through pilot projects involving local actors. Therefore, the researcher raised the following re...
The application of mass collaboration in different areas of study and work has been increasing over the last few decades. For example, in the education context, this emerging paradigm has opened new opportunities for participatory learning, namely, &...
2 June 2021
Pharmaceutical care necessitates significant efforts from patients, informal caregivers, the interprofessional team of health care professionals and health care system administrators. Collaboration, mutual respect and agreement amongst all stakeholde...
Unmanned aerial vehicles have been widely employed in recent years owing to their remarkable features such as low environmental requirements and high survivability, and a new tendency towards networking, intelligence, and collaboration has emerged. T...
In human–robot collaborative environments, predicting and explaining robotic grasp failures is crucial for effective operation. While machine learning models can predict failures accurately, they often lack transparency, limiting their utility...
Recently, a comprehensive Bayesian analysis was performed to simultaneously extract the values of a number of hydrodynamic parameters necessary for compatibility with a limited set of experimental data from the LHC. In this work, this best-fit model...
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, and a number of important agreements call on the United Nations (UN) to strengthen a relationship with the private sector to develop and tr...
This article reports an analytical review of research and policy concerning the qualities that create, sustain, and enliven academic partnerships between universities in different countries. This review provides context for a discussion of the develo...
This article presents a model for the comparison of plea bargain proposals. The use of the model increases the possibility of the satisfactory development of the negotiation of rewarded collaboration agreements recently permitted under Brazilian law....
Collaborative intelligent sensing in the Social Internet of Things (Social IoT) relies on distributed AI-enabled sensors to support complementary information sharing, multimodal perception, and real-time autonomous decision-making. Under high-load co...
Background: Diabetes is a complex disease requiring a multidisciplinary approach. However, the dynamics of this collaboration and the involvement of healthcare providers remain unclear. Aim(s): To explore the composition, the division of roles/tasks,...
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