This paper provides a model of the repeated prisoner’s dilemma in which cheap-talk communication is necessary in order to achieve cooperative outcomes in a long-term relationship. The model is one of complete information. I consider a continuous time...
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Unregulated private wells may be at risk for certain types of contamination associated with adverse health effects. Well water testing is a primary method to identify such risks, although testing rates are generally low. Risk communication is used as...
Smart grid private communication networks need to support heterogeneous services with varying requirements for reliability, security, bandwidth, and controllability. In such networks, service function chains (SFCs) can provide customized network serv...
The problem of graph-based X-secure T-private linear computation (GXSTPLC) is to allow a user to retrieve a linear combination of K messages from a set of N distributed servers that store the messages in a graph-based fashion, i.e., each message is r...
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) experience communication difficulties and receive speech–language therapy (SLT) services in public schools and/or private clinics in Cyprus. This study aims to analyze the context and content...
Cultural heritage governance and management has been shifting from the sole authority of the state and public bodies towards approaches that list multi-actor partnerships in several combinations involving public actors, civil society, private actors...
The vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure and other disruptive events expose urban communities to severe risks. Public–private partnership (PPP) is an intensive cooperation between public and private actors with enhanced and more innovativ...
Private set intersection (PSI) is a fundamental cryptographic task that allows two mutually distrusting parties, each holding a private set of elements, to jointly compute the intersection of their sets. It ensures a symmetric information structure w...
Background: Private and community hosting have emerged as important community-based responses to forced displacement, through which host-country citizens provide accommodation, practical support, and relational care to refugees in domestic and commun...
Although sustainable responsible investing (SRI) has increasingly become popular on the financial markets, the potential of raising capital from private investors for sustainable development has not been efficiently seized thus far. The lack of knowl...
The Austrian school economics and neo-Marxist theories both have been reviving in recent years. However, the current academic discussion lacks a debate between two schools of economics with diametrically opposed views. This paper is the first and an...
Despite the socioeconomic and ecological significance of the 10.4 million acres of forestland owned by nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners across Arkansas (approximately 58% of forestland in the state), only 5% of this land is certified th...
Private Set Intersection (PSI) is a cryptographic method in secure multi-party computation that allows entities to identify common elements in their datasets without revealing their private data. Traditional approaches assume similar-sized datasets a...
The key to whether elderly individuals in the community can enjoy their later years peacefully lies in the service capabilities of community comprehensive elderly care service facilities (CCECSF) under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode. To ma...
Sustaining high performance in private healthcare requires that internal organizational processes actively reinforce the values employees carry into their daily work. This study examines how organizational communication and internal branding shape em...
Heterogeneous client distributions and differential-privacy noise can slow learning. This study proposes time-varying privacy-scheduled differentially private federated learning (TVP-DPFL), combining a public Gaussian multiplier schedule, bounded rel...
This paper analyzes whether national laws acknowledge indigenous peoples and other rural communities in 100 countries as owners of waters that arise within their lands. Results derive from information collected by LandMark to score the legal status o...
This paper examines how a residential podium garden design can enhance the use of a garden and the satisfaction of its users. Two public and private housing estates are selected to analyze and compare spatial use and the perception of space in podium...
Australia’s housing affordability crisis has deepened despite extensive policy intervention, with the private rental sector experiencing unprecedented pressure. This study proposes that affordable housing should guarantee low and moderate-incom...
This paper showcases the first exhaustive literature review on the public–private–people partnership (4P), as a concept on its own, its backstory, its proposed definitions, and multiple interpretations throughout the last fifteen years. B...
The aim of this work is to study possible models for the development of renewable energy communities (RECs) in public private partnership (PPP), aimed at supporting the transition of energy consumption of Italian public administrations towards renewa...
Private healthcare organizations increasingly compete on their internal culture and on how consistently that culture reaches patients, particularly in destinations where treatment and cultural tourism overlap. Organizational communication and interna...
Shrinking revenues and increasing costs of delivery for health and welfare services prompted the City of Yokohama to undertake redevelopment of Tama Plaza as a model public–private partnership (PPP) for next-generation suburban redevelopment, a...
John Updike’s In the Beauty of the Lilies has often been interpreted as a lament for the decline of institutional Christianity in twentieth-century America. Instead, in this essay, it is argued that the novel dramatizes the metamorphosis of the...
In recent years, major natural disasters and public safety accidents have frequently occurred worldwide. In order to deal with various disasters and accidents using rapidly deployable, reliable, efficient, and stable emergency communication networks,...
Relationship management is critical in public–private partnership (PPP), especially when the PPP concept is adopted to build community flood disaster resilience. In this regard, this study aims to conduct a systematic review to explore the rela...
Irrigation systems are critical for food security and drought adaptation in mountainous areas. However, lack of funding and low efficacy of government-funded irrigation projects hinders irrigation infrastructure development. A public–private pa...
Ensuring access to safe drinking water is a challenge in many parts of the world for reasons including, but not limited to, infrastructure age, source water impairment, limited community finances and limitations in Federal water protections. Water qu...
Watershed stewardship programs succeed when intended users progress from awareness to participation. This study applies diffusion of innovations theory to five forestry, agricultural, and economic viability programs administered by the Watershed Agri...
Recent years have seen a paradigm shift from individualistic, market-based models of community development to more sustainable and human-centered approaches that emphasize inclusion and participation. Yet processes of privatization in the era of neol...
The large-scale deployment of electric power wireless private networks (EPWPNs) has significantly increased the number of base stations in substations, transmission corridors, and distribution terminals, leading to rapidly rising electricity expendit...
The actions of residents in the wildland–urban interface can influence the private and social costs of wildfire. Wildfire programs that encourage residents to take action are often delivered without evidence of effects on behavior. Research fro...
Background/Objectives: In China, developing childcare services is a key governmental strategy to promote child health under the low-fertility context. However, young couples have poor knowledge and low acceptance of formal childcare now, creating a s...
Private cloud object stores provide infrastructure isolation but leave application-layer data exposed to insider threats and compromised credentials. This paper presents an engineering integration of an Add-Rotate-XOR (ARX) block cipher and multi-bit...
In the field of second language acquisition, there is a growing recognition of the importance of emotional factors, particularly emotional intelligence (EI), in influencing learners’ willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2). H...
In recent years, the development of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has increased the popularity of vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET). A VANET is designed to enable vehicles to exchange information about traffic or vehicle conditions to h...
Industrial IoT has special communication requirements, including high reliability, low latency, flexibility, and security. These are instinctively provided by the 5G mobile technology, making it a successful candidate for supporting Industrial IoT (I...
Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a client to retrieve a specific element from a server’s database without disclosing the index that was queried. This work introduces three improvements to the efficient single-server PIR protocol Spir...
Blockchain technology is becoming more prominent and is being used in many different industries. Data islands have emerged as a result of the difficulty in transferring assets and exchanging information between blockchains because of differences in t...
Virtual communities (VCs) are emerging as a cyberspace where active knowledge exchange between people occurs without time or space constraints. For VCs to be sustainable, a major challenge is ensuring that members voluntarily contribute and share kno...
The COVID-19 pandemic did not only impact all spheres of life but came abruptly to redefine our understanding of the urban-scape. With changing user-values and user-needs, there is a renewed realisation of the importance of the human-scape and how hu...
The revitalization of Fort Bema in Warsaw’s Bemowo district addresses the urgent need for sustainable urban development in degraded post-military areas. This study aims to explore innovative urban development strategies that effectively integra...
Background: Pharmacist involvement in immunization has expanded as a strategy to improve access to vaccines. In Costa Rica, private community pharmacies operate under a regulatory framework for vaccination services, yet evidence on private-market vac...
Based on the Foucauldian concept of governmentality, this paper overcomes the atomistic view of external stakeholder engagement research to examine the specific conditions under which community engagement in urban infrastructure public-private partne...
With the growing importance of the healthcare sector, resilience has become a fundamental personal quality that healthcare professionals need to cultivate to cope with adverse events in daily work. Distress in the workplace cannot only impact the wel...
As data-driven deep learning (DL) has been applied in various scenarios, the privacy threats have become a widely recognized problem. To boost privacy protection in federated learning (FL), some methods adopt a one-shot differential privacy (DP) appr...
The need for governments and stakeholders to find urgent solutions to address the destructive effects of disasters in urban areas has led to the call for cross-sector collaborations such as public-private partnerships to assist with the development o...
In-vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) communications generally count on private protocols (defined by the manufacturers) under controller area network (CAN) specifications. Parsing the private protocols for a particular vehicle model would be of g...
The problem of antisocial behavior (ASB) undermines the life quality of urban residents. While many previous studies on ASB focused on the solutions, little effort has been dedicated to finding out the social determinants of the levels of ASB problem...
Globally, the forced displacement of socially vulnerable communities causes significant contestation, irrespective of whether that occurs for mega-projects or smaller infrastructural, agricultural, urban renewal, or property developments. Despite mul...
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