COVID-19 mortality rates are higher in rural versus urban areas in the United States, threatening to exacerbate the existing rural mortality penalty. To save lives and facilitate economic recovery, we must achieve widespread vaccination coverage. This study compared adult COVID-19 vaccination rates across the US rural-urban continuum and across dif...
For maintenance optimization of multi-component systems, opportunistic maintenance has been addressed in many studies since it allows considering the advantages of dependences between components in maintenance decision-making process. In the literature, economic dependence, which implies that joint maintenance of several components can reduce the m...
Published in Research in Social Change
Hungary is in many respects a diligent student of transition, one that has successfully gathered the spoils of transition in spite of initial drawbacks. The article argues that Hungary had a facilitated entry into the wormhole of transition because of pre-democratic initiatives to implement competitive fiscal measures—mainly in the years prior to t...
This text (essay type) proposes a theoretical-reflexive approach to the phenomenon of the reprimarization of the economy that occurred from the neo-extractivist productive system in Latin America during the so-called “progressive” governments. Thus, it observes its main characteristics and effects on society, in particular, the deterioration it cau...
La crise sanitaire sans précédent du COVID-19 a contraint le FMI, la Banque mondiale et le G 20 dans un beau consensus à se prononcer pour un allégement de la dette des pays les plus endettés notamment les pays de la CEMAC, la Chine étant au centre des discussions. Certains craignent qu’une Chine malveillante ne profite de cette crise du COVID-19 p...
Depuis 2014, les plateformes numériques comme Deliveroo ou Ubereats proposent de révolutionner la livraison de repas et plus précisément la façon dont celle-ci est réalisée par les coursiers. En effet, en lieu et place des salariés, ces plateformes recrutent plusieurs milliers de micro-entrepreneurs en sous-traitance. Elles leur promettent liberté ...
Non-audit services provided by audit firms have been a popular scientific topic within the fields of audit and accounting research over the past decades. Numerous researchers have attempted to provide a theoretical contribution by examining different ways of measuring the concepts of audit quality and financial reporting quality. The resulting cons...
This paper presents a dynamic grouping and routing approach for the maintenance optimization of a geographically dispersed production system (GDPS) consisting of several production sites located far apart from each other. Only one maintenance center is in charge of the preventive maintenance of the system. Maintenance grouping and routing are two i...
This paper develops a model of a condition-based maintenance policy for a two-component system with both stochastic and economic dependencies. The stochastic dependency is such that the degradation rate of each component depends not only on its own state (degradation level) but also on the state of the other component. The economic dependency is su...
This paper presents a dynamic grouping maintenance strategy for geographically dispersed production systems (GDPS). Economic dependence at both component and site levels is investigated and integrated in the grouping model. The grouping and routing optimization become then a NP-hard problem which is herein solved by the joint implementation of Gene...
