The Other Taxation: An Ethnographic Account of “Off-the-Books” State Financing by Matías Dewey

“…Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the markets for stolen auto parts and counterfeit clothing in Greater Buenos Aires, this article describes how state agencies informally tax these economies, and “follows the money” extracted. …”
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GPS Spoofing Detection Method for Small UAVs Using 1D Convolution Neural Network by Young-Hwa Sung, Soo-Jae Park, Dong-Yeon Kim, Sungho Kim

“…A commercial GPS simulator can cause a GPS-guided drone to deviate from its intended course by transmitting counterfeit GPS signals. Therefore, an anti-spoofing technique is essential to ensure the operational safety of UAVs. …”
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A Comparison of the Composition of Selected Commercial Sandalwood Oils with the International Standard by Malgorzata Kucharska, Barbara Frydrych, Wiktor Wesolowski, Jadwiga A. Szymanska, Anna Kilanowicz

“…Sandalwood oils are highly desired but expensive, and hence many counterfeit oils are sold in high street shops. The study aimed to determine the content of oils sold under the name sandalwood oil and then compare their chromatographic profile and α- and β santalol content with the requirements of ISO 3518:2002. …”
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Application of capillary zone electrophoresis to determine second-generation H1 antihistaminic drugs, loratadine and rupatadine by Cintia Maria Alves Mothé, Aline de Souza, Anil Kumar Singh, Nádia Araci Bou-Chacra, María Segunda Aurora-Prado

“…The proposed novel method can significantly contribute to the rapid detection of counterfeit products and in quality control of drug products containing antihistamines.…”
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Identification of benefits, challenges, and pathways in E-commerce industries: An integrated two-phase decision-making model by Srikant Gupta, Pooja.S. Kushwaha, Usha Badhera, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Ernesto D.R. Santibanez Gonzalez

“…Results of the study revealed that factors such as affordable advertising & marketing; availability and product variety; and Global reachability are the most important benefits, while technological upgradation; returns or refunds; and counterfeit products posed the greatest challenges for the industry. …”
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A framework to evaluate interoperable data exchange models for Drug Supply Chain Security Act compliance by Chung, Peter Wontae, Zhang, Tao

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Optical Detection of Degraded Therapeutic Proteins by Wu, Di, Hancock, William, Herrington, William F., Singh, Gajendra Pratap, Barone, Paul, Ram, Rajeev J

“…Identifying malformed proteins at the point-of-care can prevent adverse immune reactions in patients; this is of special concern when there is an insecure supply chain resulting in the delivery of degraded, or even counterfeit, drug product. Identification of degraded protein, for example human growth hormone, is demonstrated by applying automated anomaly detection algorithms. …”
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Food and liquid sensing in practical environments using RFIDs by Ha, U, Leng, J, Khaddaj, A, Adib, F

“…We built a prototype of RF-EATS and tested it in seven different applications including identifying fake medicine, adulterated baby formula, and counterfeit beauty products. Our results demonstrate that RF-EATS can achieve over 90% classification accuracy in scenarios where state-of-the-art RFID sensing systems cannot perform better than a random guess.…”
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CMOS THz-ID: A 1.6mm² Package-Less Identification Tag Using 260-GHz Far-Field Backscatter Communication by Khan, Muhammad Ibrahim Wasiq

“…Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags have been widely used for counterfeit mitigation, authentication and supply chain management. …”
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A brief review of the shape memory phenomena in polymers and their typical sensor applications by Sun, Li, Wang, Tao Xi, Chen, Hong Mei, Salvekar, Abhijit Vijay, Naveen, Balasundaram Selvan, Xu, Qinwei, Weng, Yiwei, Guo, Xinli, Chen, Yahui, Huang, Wei Min

“…As demonstrated by a number of examples, many low-cost engineering polymers are well suited to, for instance, anti-counterfeit and over-heating/wetting monitoring applications via visual sensation and/or tactual sensation, and many existing technologies and products (e.g., holography, 3D printing, nano-imprinting, electro-spinning, lenticular lens, Fresnel lens, QR/bar code, Moiré pattern, FRID, structural coloring, etc.) can be integrated with the shape memory feature.…”
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An Evaluation of Sybil Attack’s Detection Approaches in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANETs) by Younis, Muhammad Iqbal, Latif, Rana M. Amir, Haq, Izharul, Jhanjhi, N.Z., Karim, Abdul

“…So, distinguishing, countering, and containing counterfeit records on online networks is critical. …”
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Intertextualidades bíblicas en "Celestina" by Saguar García, A

“…Moreover, it appears as a counterfeit sentimental romance, concretely, a reply to "Cárcel de amor", to contemporary love habits and to courtly customs.…”

Parallel import of dispensed medicines: an analysis of the laws and practice in Malaysia / Zuraini Mohamad Redhuan, Hairanie sa'ban and Jacklyn Kiyun. by Mohamad Redhuan, Zuraini, sa'ban, Hairanie, Kiyun, Jacklyn

“…This study is aims to analyse the provisions on parallel import where the issue of non-counterfeit product imported from another country without the permission of the intellectual property owner will be analyse. …”
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Securing mhealth applications with grid-based honey encryption by Soo, Fun Tan, Ka, Man Chirs Lo, Yu, Beng Leau, Gwo, Chin Chung, Fatimah Ahmedy

“…Instead of rejecting access as a recent security defence mechanism in mobile healthcare applications, the proposed Grid-based Honey Encryption creates an indistinct counterfeit patient's record closely resembling the real patients' records in light of each off-base speculation legitimate password.…”
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Direction of future research in EWOM: issues of credibility, format and impact by Ahmed Khan, Shamim, Hussin, Siti Rahayu, Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar

“…In recent years, credibility has become one of the most important issues regarding eWOM considering the widespread practice of counterfeit or fake online opinions. Format of eWOM is another important area because studies related to eWOM mostly focused on text-based eWOM. …”
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Rapid detection of several endangered agarwood-producing Aquilaria species and their potential adulterants using plant DNA barcodes coupled with high-resolution melting (Bar-HRM) a... by Lee, Shiou Yih, Lamasudin, Dhilia Udie, Mohamed, Rozi

“…Other plant sources of similar appearance or fragrance as agarwood are used as adulterant species in counterfeit products. To promote species identification via the DNA barcoding technique, the existing DNA barcoding database in our laboratory was enriched with seven plant barcoding sequences from a commercially important Aquilaria species ( Aquilaria beccariana ) and seven adulterant species ( Cocos nucifera , Dalbergia latifolia , Pinus contorta var. latifolia , Santalum album , Strychnos ignatii , Thuja sp. and Terminalia catappa ). …”
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Segmenting consumers purchase intention towards edible bird’s nest products using the decision tree techniques by Mohamad Shukri, Nurul Nabilah Huda, Mohd Nawi, Nolila, Abdullah, Amin Mahir, Man, Norsida

“…However, issues such as contamination and counterfeit EBN have caused fluctuation of the product’s price over time and consumers are slowly shunning away from consuming EBN products. …”
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Review on UV-LEDs: State of the Art and Challenges Ahead by Samsudin, F. M. E. A., Zainal, N., Hassan', Z.

“…The latest challenge of LEOs is to residing themselves in advanced ultra-violet (UV) lighting, which involves industrial UV curing (e. coatings , resins. adhesives). medical and scientific (e.g. pl1ototherapy, DNA sensing). sterilization (bacterial disinfection , water purification, skin therapy), security (counterfeit detection and forensics) and horticulture lighting New market research by Markets and Markets reports that the UV LED market is expected to reach USD 369.58 million by 2020. …”
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The quadriceps muscle of knee joint modelling using hybrid particle swarm optimization-neural network (PSO-NN) by Mohamed Nasir, Noorhamizah, Huq, Mohammad Saiful, Mohamed Ramli, Norazan, KSM Kader, Babul Salam, Pah, Chin Hee, Tolos, Siti Marponga, Md Ghani, Nor Azura, Ahmad Kamaruddin, Saadi

“…This paper exhibits the modelling of quadriceps muscle model by utilizing counterfeit smart procedures named consolidated backpropagation neural network nonlinear autoregressive (BPNN-NAR) and backpropagation neural network nonlinear autoregressive moving average (BPNN-NARMA) models in view of utilitarian electrical incitement (FES). …”
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BeiDou Augmented Navigation from Low Earth Orbit Satellites by Mudan Su, Xing Su, Qile Zhao, Jingnan Liu

“…The weak navigation signals limit its usage in deep attenuation environments, and make it easy to interference and counterfeit by jammers or spoofers. Moreover, being far away to the Earth results in relatively slow motion of the satellites in the sky and geometric change, making long time needed for achieved centimeter positioning accuracy. …”
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