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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020Entrepreneurship across Sociocultural Contexts: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives
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WILEY2019Translating Science Into Business Innovation: The Case of Open Food and Nutrition Data Hackathons
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2018Bootstrapping Uncertainty in Schema Covering
Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Thành Tâm Nguyên, Chi Thang Duong
Schema covering is the process of representing large and complex schemas by easily comprehensible common objects. This task is done by identifying a set of common concepts from a repository called concept repository and generating a cover to describe the s ...
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