Contracts enable mutually suspicious parties to cooperate safely through the exchange of rights. Smart contracts are programs whose behavior enforces the terms of the contract. This paper shows how such contracts can be specified elegantly and executed safely, given an appropriate distributed, secure, persistent, and ubiquitous computational fabric. JavaScript provides the ubiquity but must be ...

This article describes the bureaucratic processes required to establish and manage a single international capacity-development project that brought together funding council (AHRC), UK University (SOAS of London) universities other research organisations in Myanmar Ethiopia. Drawing from ethnographic critiques planning audit practices employed development sector, we track formal certification pa...

The employee–employer relationship is said to be affected by extensive workplace transitions, and yet little is known about how employees make sense of these changes while deciding on their responses to them. Our study investigated two factors, social comparison and the nature of the exchanges, as moderators of the effects of psychological contract (i.e., employee beliefs regarding the terms of...

The Community-Oriented Public Health Practice (COPHP) program, a 2-year in-residence MPH degree program in the University of Washington School of Public Health, has partnered with Public Health-Seattle & King County (PHSKC) since 2002 to create a mutually beneficial set of programs to improve teaching and address community-based public health problems in a practice setting. The COPHP program us...

objectives this study is the first of its kind to determine the framework, advantages, and limitations of bot contracts for health care projects in selected countries. background advantages and limitations of build-operate-transfer (bot) contracts in various forms of public-private partnership (ppp) arrangements have not been studied. conclusions this study suggests that more information transp...

During the past few decades, the Brazilian labor market has been characterized by an increase of unregistered workers, earning lower wages, not covered by social insurance or occupational risk prevention programs. This study describes the representations and perceptions about informal work contracts and job-related health risks, analyzed in a group of injured unregistered workers. This was a qu...

We analyze strategic relationships between buyers and sellers in markets with relationship-specific costs and exogenous dynamic uncertainty by investigating the scenario wherein a representative buyer trades with two sellers in a different country. We show that under exchange rate uncertainty, relationship-specific costs may either raise or lower competition and the level of prices in long-term...

Credit card service is a relatively special type of service. In essence, the specialness this business expressed in fact that credit institutions have combined their two basic operations, including payment activities and granting into one The law about cards requires smooth combination above provisions constitutes complete legal framework to regulate issues institutions, usage customers, interm...

The agricultural sector is the driver and “point of growth” national economy Ukraine. Agriculture accounts for an average 16% gross value added in some regions play a key role ensuring food security. However, current conditions martial law Ukraine have led to problems organization logistics activities enterprises agro-industrial complex as result non-fulfilment terms contracts; emergence risks ...