Internet is a huge resource of information, but only the small portion of it is visible to regular users. More than 90 per cent of the web is hidden and to be able to see it, users need to use specific software like Tor. Currently there are more than 2.5 million daily users using Tor to surf the...

Patents are one of the most valuable sources of technical and commercial knowledge. Although patents are public and can be easily searched on the Web, for most countries, there is no easy way to download bulk patent data. The purpose of this paper is to create a web mining framework used to...

Patents are one of the most valuable sources of technical and commercial knowledge. Although patents are public and can be easily searched on the Web, for most countries, there is no easy way to download bulk patent data. The purpose of this paper is to create a web mining framework used to...

In the last years European farmers have been facing two new phenomena: the asymmetric price transmission in agro-food sector and the decrease of agricultural value added. The European Commission denounced low transparency in trade relationships and frequent unfair commercial practices between...

This article highlights the interaction between social capital, pooling and quality premiums and their influence on cooperative members’ decisions regarding their product quality. A necessary condition for cooperative equitable principles such as complete pooling is that there exists a high...

In agro-food enterprises from Romania, management of risk control is seen as a dynamic process that, in order to work involves a cycle that incorporates risk identification, assessment, administering and verification. Risk management is closely related to the performance management, so that it...

Gravity model of trade has emerged as an important and popular model in explaining and predicting bilateral trade flows. While the theoretical justification is no longer in doubt, nonetheless, its empirical application has however generated several unresolved controversies in the literature....