Pith Number

pith:EQWL7VA7

pith:2021:EQWL7VA746EYPMBKWSY4XIRZJM

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A Critical Evaluation of Failure in a Nearshore Outsourcing Project: What dilemma analysis can tell us

Bilal Raza, Stephen G. MacDonell, Tony Clear

arxiv:2105.10899 v1 · 2021-05-23 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EQWL7VA746EYPMBKWSY4XIRZJM}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T02:42:33.330158Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

242cbfd41fe78987b02ab4b1cba2394b1cb8914b1897dda56a77136bf87a5e93

Aliases

arxiv: 2105.10899 · arxiv_version: 2105.10899v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2105.10899 · pith_short_12: EQWL7VA746EY · pith_short_16: EQWL7VA746EYPMBK · pith_short_8: EQWL7VA7

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EQWL7VA746EYPMBKWSY4XIRZJM \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 242cbfd41fe78987b02ab4b1cba2394b1cb8914b1897dda56a77136bf87a5e93

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "66c99c8bc43198b5743c2742bd664811008813dd1ada510404ecd3e50b8a14d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2021-05-23T09:51:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d0410f058ed4ada25e35ac9b275bdeaeaa2717ef51f4d3357a94347bae2de069"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2105.10899",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}