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The building cultures of regions where plant resources abound show the adaptation of these local bio-based materials to the roofing of buildings: thatch, reed, bark or shingles. Despite a low environmental impact, these techniques require skilled manual wo ...
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This paper introduces a new approach to reduce end-to-end costs in large-scale replicated systems built under a Byzantine fault model. Specifically, our approach transforms a given replicated state machine (RSM) to another RSM where nodes incur lower costs ...
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Environmental reporting as part of Corporate Social Responsibility reporting (CSR) is one of the governance tools increasingly used by companies to measure, analyse and communicate on their ecological information. The rules and standards governing their en ...
Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019
