Investigation on Industry Applications of Blockchain Technology

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Dhaya R. ◽  
Kanthavel R.
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
The Other ◽  
Security And Protection ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Industry Applications

Blockchain (BC) is a collective, indisputable ledger that makes easy the course of action of recording dealings and footpath possessions in an industry system. On the other hand, BC is significant in business that sprints on information. A BC network can follow instructions, expenditure, financial records, manufacture, and many more. Yet, the difficulties of BC in industry like mindfulness and getting, association, culture, cost and proficiency, regulation and administration, and security and protection must be properly dealt with to gain the advantages fully. Hence, the objectives of this chapter are to investigate various applications of industries that involve BC technology, the challenges, evolution of BC in industry applications, and its need, types of BC, and networks for industries and comparison. Further, the chapter discusses how to manage the hyperconnected supply chain in terms of industrial applications in terms of scalability, integrity, and legacy.

scholarly journals Rise, Fall, and Recovery of Blockchains in the Maritime Technology Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Ziaul Haque Munim ◽  
Okan Duru ◽  
Enna Hirata
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Privacy Management ◽  
Maritime Industry ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Maritime Literature ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Antitrust Laws ◽  
Maritime Technology

Blockchain technology, since its introduction, has been expected to be implemented in many areas. Cryptocurrency is one unique example that established a functioning application. On the other hand, blockchain technology is not immune to various challenges related to the nature of itself, privacy management, and antitrust laws, among others. This study lays out the nature of blockchain and applications in the maritime industry, while highlighting the bottlenecks. Potential resolutions and anticipated developments are proposed. To do this, we adopt a systematic approach and present an overview of blockchain in maritime literature. In addition, the fundamental problems with blockchain are investigated, beginning from their essentials to the pain points that are claimed to need improvement. For establishing a legitimate and practically meaningful blockchain platform, stakeholders need to achieve pluralism (consensus validation), privacy, and security of the system.

Female Sex and Sexuality

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-62
Author(s):  
Celene Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
The Many

This chapter discusses Qur’anic concepts related to sex and sexuality and considers how sex, as a feature of embodiment and as an act of intimacy, factors into Qur’anic narratives. It delineates concepts such as “female,” “woman,” and “wife,” and gives attention to Qur’anic notions of virginity and beauty. The chapter points out the many provocative juxtapositions between female figures, the situations that they navigate, and the moral valences of their actions and intentions. It demonstrates how the issue of illicit sex is a major human dilemma in the Qur’anic worldview, both for the chaste who are unjustly accused of illicit sex and for immoral people who create havoc for themselves and others through their profligacy and moral bankruptcy. On the other hand, the Qur’an does not emphasize the trope of the seductress; of the dozens of female figures mentioned in the Qur’an, only one plays this role, and even she can be directly contrasted to women in similar, potentially compromising situations who take the morally sound course of action. Qur’anic terminology for paradisal beings and the possibility of sex in paradise is also discussed.

Moral dilemmas

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyam Nair
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theory ◽  
Deontic Logic ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ought Implies Can ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Course Of Action

A moral dilemma is a situation where an agent’s obligations conflict. Debate in this area focuses on the question of whether genuine moral dilemmas exist. This question involves considering not only the nature and significance of dilemmas, but also the connections between dilemmas, the logic of obligation and moral emotions. Certain cases involving difficult choices suggest that moral dilemmas exist. These cases also suggest that dilemmas are significant because they show that moral theory cannot help with these choices. If this is right, morality may be unimportant because it may be a system of inconsistent rules that cannot be used as a guide that tells us what to do. But this understanding of the cases is disputable. Perhaps the cases show that agents can be ignorant about what they ought to do. Or perhaps dilemmas are not significant because moral theory tells agents to do the most important of their obligations. On the other hand, principles from the logic of obligation or deontic logic can be used to argue against the existence of moral dilemmas. Principles of deontic logic such as the ‘ought’ implies ‘can’ principle and the agglomeration principle, which says that if you ought to do a and ought to do b, then you ought to do a and b, taken together with the assumption that moral dilemmas exist, turn out to entail a contradiction. This means that one of these principles must be given up, or else it must be the case that moral dilemmas do not exist. Careful consideration of the moral emotions has suggested that dilemmas do exist. It is appropriate for agents to feel guilt only if they ought to have done otherwise. In cases involving difficult choices, it is appropriate to feel guilt no matter what course of action is taken. This suggests that such cases involve genuine dilemmas.

Sex, Survival, and Scandal: A Comparison of How Men and Women Exit Presidential Cabinets

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 665-688 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon ◽  
Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
The Other ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Underrepresented Groups ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Policy Failures

The process of selecting cabinet ministers often takes place behind closed doors, including weighing the need to balance or manage factions within the president's party and/or coalition partners; addressing demands for diversity in the cabinet, such as appointment of women or other historically underrepresented groups; sending signals about the administration's policy agenda; and enabling the president to have people he or she trusts close at hand. On the other hand, ministerial exits are usually less private affairs. In some cases they come after weeks of public or congressional scrutiny and criticism of ministers for policy failures or follow extended speculation about who will lose their seat when the president reshuffles the cabinet. Some ministers depart to pursue lucrative private-sector opportunities. Other ministers switch posts but stay in government. How ministers exit can have implications for the administration since a president who is frequently forced to shuffle the cabinet or sack ministers looks ineffective, and comparisons to rats and sinking ships are difficult to avoid in the wake of excessive changes. At the same time, an administration with zero turnover may also not be healthy, as it would suggest that presidents are staidly bound to their initial course of action and unable (or unwilling) to adapt to changing circumstances.

Flexible PLED displays and related technologies

2004 ◽  
Vol 814 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Nisato ◽  
C. Mutsaers ◽  
H. Buijk ◽  
P. Duineveld ◽  
E. Janssen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Flexible Substrate ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Hole Transport ◽  
The Other ◽  
Enabling Technology ◽  
Other Hand

AbstractFlexible, free shape displays are the enabling technology for new robust, lightweight, extremely thin, portable electronic devices. Polymer Light Emitting Diodes (PLED) are especially suited for these applications, due to their fast response time, low voltage, high luminous efficiency and viewing angle performance. On the other hand, PLED displays are extremely sensitive to moisture and oxygen. Substrate materials provided with high performance hermetic and conducting layers are therefore an essential component for manufacturing these flexible devices. Polymer based substrates provide the necessary mechanical flexibility; they also require several thin, brittle, functional inorganic layers such diffusion barriers and transparent electrodes. The structural integrity, dimensional stability and thermal properties of the substrate stack are crucial to insure device functionality and reliability. For polymer-based substrate several effects lead to dimensional variation of the substrates, such as solvent uptake, physical ageing of the polymer base, thermal expansion and stress induced deformations. These effects must be taken into account to successfully perform classic photolithographic steps.Ink-jet printing is a critical enabling technology for flexible PLED displays, providing a customizable means to dispense solution-based polymers onto a flexible substrate, allowing for multi-color devices. On the other hand, IJP must meet several challenges, especially to comply with industrial applications. For example, accurate landing position of the droplets to form homogeneous hole-transport and electroluminescent layers as well as good wetting characteristic of the substrates must be obtained with reliable high throughput techniques.

scholarly journals A Fuzzy Best Worst approach to the determination of the importance level of digital supply chain on sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1366-1379
Author(s):  
Kevser Arman ◽  
Arzu Organ
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
Best Worst Method

In today's world where the importance of digitalization is increasing day by day, companies to increase their competitiveness have focused on digital supply chain instead of traditional supply chain. In a world where resources are constantly decreasing, the concept of sustainability has become very crucial in every part of life. Digital technologies, on the other hand, have a direct relationship with sustainability. Sustainability has three main dimensions: economic, environmental, and social. Therefore, the aim of this study is to evaluate digital supply chain on 3 basic dimensions of sustainability. For this purpose, Fuzzy Best Worst Method (F-BWM) was used to define the importance level of criteria. Findings reveal that the concept of sustainability in textile firms in Turkey is generally perceived within an economic and environmental area, rather than within a social dimension. This study is very important in putting forward digital technologies which utilizing in supply chain and the impact of the digital supply chain on sustainability.

Enhanced Inventory Management Using Blockchain Technology Under Cloud Sector Enabled by Hybrid Multi-Verse with Whale Optimization Algorithm

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Chinnaraj Govindasamy ◽  
Arokiasamy Antonidoss
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Inventory Management ◽  
Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Transportation Cost ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hybrid Optimization ◽  
Setup Cost ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Hybrid Optimization Algorithm ◽  
Whale Optimization

Inventory cost control is an essential factor in supply chain management. If the supplier’s inventory is insufficient, then the chance to trade the product will be reduced. The manufacturer’s inadequate material inventory will have an effect in termination of production, delays, and a waste of resources and time. On the other hand, postponed transportation will certainly raise costs such as transportation costs and cancellation of orders. Therefore, the operation costs of enterprises will be more, which will lower profits. In conventional supply chains, inventory costs control is not feasible for the view of the entire supply chain. The main intent of this paper is to plan for intelligent inventory management using blockchain technology under the cloud sector. The inventory management of the supply chain includes “multiple suppliers, a manufacturer, and multiple distributors”. The proposed inventory management models consider some significant costs like “transaction cost, inventory holding cost, shortage cost, transportation cost, time cost, setup cost, backordering cost, and quality improvement cost”. This multi-objective cost function is minimized by a novel hybrid optimization algorithm; the concept of WOA is integrated to produce the new algorithm which is termed as Whale-based Multi Verse Optimization (W-MVO) algorithm. For securing the data of distributors, using blockchain technology in a cloud environment helps from the leakage of data to other unauthorized users. Once the cost is reduced in all aspects based on the proposed hybrid optimization algorithm, the distributer will store the concerning data in the blockchain under the cloud sector, where each distributer holds a hash function to store its data, which cannot be restored by the other distributers. The valuable performance analysis over the conventional optimization algorithms proves the effective and reliable performance of the proposed model over the conventional models.

scholarly journals Methodological recommendations on digital rating of enterprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Oleksandr HRYHORIEV ◽  
Nataliia PETRYSHYN ◽  
Andrii TODOSHCHUK
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Social Indicators ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Indicators ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Business Entities

Introduction. The introduction of digitalization of the economy will help to centralize the control over the activities of economic entities by various government agencies. On the other hand, the contractor of the enterprise, or other persons who are interested in the activities of a particular enterprise can get acquainted with the rating of the enterprise and draw the necessary conclusions for themselves. Purpose. It consists in a thorough study and analysis of international and domestic experience in rating business activities of enterprises in Ukraine to develop harmonized and unified guidelines for ranking business entities in the European integration of Ukraine. Results. Technologically, the rating should be based on blockchain technology. This technology will avoid one-way storage of information on the server and will allow many participants in the ranking to store it in encrypted form. This situation will not allow hackers to falsify information or hack the server. What are the main criteria for ranking corporate entities? Of course, implementing a large number of criteria will be both problematic and cumbersome. Therefore, it is proposed to rank enterprises at the initial stages according to five main criteria: assessment of taxes and customs duties; evaluation of social indicators; evaluation of the implementation of economic measures; evaluation of the main economic indicators of the enterprise; evaluation of other indicators. Conclusions. The proposed guidelines for digital rating of enterprises will improve the regulatory and legal support for determining the rating of the enterprise to obtain a scale of reliability of the enterprise as a business entity, eliminate significant problems of corruption in the system of public procurement and procurement, double interpretation of the business entity, activism in evaluating the activities of enterprises, etc.

scholarly journals Contemporary art, capitalization and the blockchain: On the autonomy and automation of art’s value

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Lotti
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Valuation Methods ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Financial Power ◽  
The One

This article addresses contemporary art as a means to investigate how, and to what extent, financial logic impacts upon the socio-cultural sphere. Its contribution is twofold: on the one hand, the article shows that contemporary art’s valuation practices increasingly reflect the logic of capitalization; on the other hand, it assesses the emancipatory potential of blockchain technology for the cultural sphere. In relation to the latter I argue that, in spite of the technological novelty of blockchain-based art projects, these nonetheless fail to challenge a received logic of finance. This exposes the limitations to technological determinism as a means of countering financial power in the socio-cultural sphere, and points to new problems for art’s valuation methods in relation to the liquid logic of algorithmic finance.

scholarly journals Family of Evaluation Strategies: A Practical Case for Comparing and Adopting Strengths

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. e06 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Tebes ◽  
Denis Peppino ◽  
Pablo Becker ◽  
Maria Fernanda Papa ◽  
Maria Belen Rivera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
The Other ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Business Goals ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Evaluation Strategies ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation

Companies commonly establish and pursue business goals. A goal states a purpose. In the Software Engineering literature, different evaluation purposes such as to understand, monitor, improve, control, compare and select are mentioned. Considering that these purposes share distinctive and common aspects, in the present work, we include a categorization that helps a better understanding of them. On the other hand, to reach the purpose of a goal, a suitable strategy should be chosen. A strategy describes a particular course of action by means of process and method specifications. We have envisioned different strategies for different evaluation goal purposes. Therefore, in this paper we also present some strategies, which are part of a family of strategies driven by measurement and evaluation activities. Specifically, we document evaluation strategies for the monitoring, improving, and comparing and adopting purposes. In addition, we illustrate the comparing and adopting strategy applied to four social network mobile apps.1

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