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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Counterfeits"”.
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Investigating the prevalence, knowledge and regulations regarding counterfeit medicines.
… to aid in this investigation. The problem of counterfeits is an ever-growing issue, especially with regards to the increase of production and sales of counterfeits. These medicines show to have an increasing health risk to the public. Everyone is at risk. On record 50% of products sold are …
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An investigation into consumer motives in purchasing counterfeit luxury branded products at the China Town in Windhoek Namibia
… that more awareness needs to be created on what counterfeits and intellectual property rights are by creating awareness of the ethics involved with the trade in counterfeits. Moreover, trading in counterfeit of luxury branded products have consequences on the Namibian market such that, it affects …
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An auto-ID based approach to reduce counterfeiting in the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain
… sufficient to contain the problem. The threat of counterfeits can be partially ameliorated by installing RF-capable electronic tags onto medical packaging, and creating a unique electronic product code (EPC). RF tags though, are not the only component of the required solution. New legal actions, …
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An examination of factors influencing the formation of the consideration set and consumer purchase intention in the context of non-deceptive counterfeiting
Consumers’ perceptions towards counterfeits as well as the effect of consumers’ perceptions on consumer purchase behaviour remain unclear. On the other hand, the study of determinants of the consideration set has recently become attractive to researchers due to its importance in relation to the …
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The botany and macroscopy of chinese materia medica: sources, substitutes and sustainability
… plants and drugs (including adulterants and counterfeits), with their counterparts for official species, enable key distinguishing characters to be highlighted and thereby strengthen the rigour of identifications made. The approach demonstrates that macroscopy can be used to reliably identify …
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ML-CHIEFS: machine learning-based corneal-specular highlight imaging for enhancing facial recognition security
… facial spoofings fail to coordinate their counterfeits with the reflective components. First, we designed a software-based facial liveness detection method named Apple in My Eyes (AIME). AIME is intended to detect the liveness against spoofing for mobile device security using …
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An Exploration into the Influence of Servicescape Cues on Perceptions of Counterfeit Products.
… counterfeit activity it was discovered that counterfeits can be sold in a variety of environments; market stalls and car boots sales through to the legitimate retail environments. In the instances where the counterfeit has been integrated into the legitimate retail environment, weaknesses in …
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A Statistical and Circuit Based Technique for Counterfeit Detection in Existing ICs
Counterfeit Integrated Circuits (ICs) are previously used ICs that are resold as new. They have become a serious problem in modern electronic devices. They cause lower performance, reduced life span and even catastrophic failure of systems and platforms. To prevent counterfeiting and the associated …
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Beyond “Brutality”: understanding the Italian Filone’s violent excesses
… them as “trash” or portraying them as parasitic counterfeits of “authentic” Hollywood genre films. Furthermore, such accounts typically fail to address the question of what it is that makes these films so violent, limiting their descriptions to blanket terms such as “brutal”, “exploitative” and …
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Evaluation of antimalarial chemotherapeutic practices and outcomes in the southwest region of Nigeria
… the communities to check for substandard and counterfeits using in-vitro culture and FT-IR techniques. In Lagos and Osun urban regions of the study, ACTs contributed to primary treatment choice (60% and 59% respectively), although this was often a result of self-medication (50% and 46% …