Data provision for IoT searches:an auction approach by Li-hua YIN, Yun-chuan GUO, Hui-bing ZHANG

“…Getting accurate data was one of keys problems in the IoTs search.Different from the Web searches that use the crawlers to collect data on the Internet,the IoT searches require that owners offer data proactively because their data were not simply released to the Internet.However,due to some reasons(privacy concerns),data owners were unwilling to provide their data to the IoT searches without enough incentives.As a result,effectively motivating owners to provided data becomes a key problem for he development of IoT searches.To address this problem,a multi-attribute auction that maximizes cost-effectiveness ratio was proposed.This mechanism can prevent hostile bids and avoid the problem that the winner provide data inconsistent with the promised quality.It was also proved that in the auction,the optimal quality was independent from its quotation and other bidders’ quality and their price.…”
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Inter-carrier interference cancellation using spatial characteristics for high-mobility OFDM communication systems by Wei WANG, Qin-ye YIN, Peng-cheng MU

“…High-mobility orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM)systems suffered severe inter-carrier interference(ICI)from Doppler spreading.On the basis of the characteristics of wireless propagation in practical scenarios,a method which employed the WINNER Ⅱ channel model to represent the practical wireless channel and an antenna array as the receiver to eliminate ICI in space-domain was proposed.The direction of arrival estimation algorithm and the beamforming network were used to separate the received signals in space-domain.Multi-beam diversity gain was obtained finally by means of combining the signals which have been compensated for Doppler frequency shifts(DFS)respectively.Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed method not only effectively reduces ICI and the error floors,but also obtains a 5～7 dB signal-to-interference gain over systems without use of the proposed method.…”
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Self-Adaptive Predictor-Corrector Approach for General Variational Inequalities Using a Fixed-Point Formulation by Kubra Sanaullah, Saleem Ullah, Muhammad Shoaib Arif, Kamaleldin Abodayeh, Rabia Fayyaz

“…A literature review revealed that the general variational inequalities, fixed-point problems, and Winner–Hopf equations are equivalent. In this study, general variational inequality and fixed-point problem are considered. …”
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Development of cultivars that expand the area of almond cultivation: commemorating the 120th birthday of Prof. Alexander An. Richter by A. A. Richter

“…Richter, a prominent scientist in the field of breeding new cultivars of nut crops and subtropical fruit plants, is widely known worldwide. A winner of the USSR State Prize, Prof. Dr. A. Richter was second in the world to develop a program of almond cultivation and breeding, thus making a significant contribution to the development of horticulture in the south of Russia. …”
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Star and National Myths in Cold War Allegories: Marlene Dietrich’s Star Persona and the Western in Fritz Lang’s Rancho Notorious (1952) by Hilaria Loyo

“…Through Dietrich’s character, Altar, the boss of the Chuck-a-Luck ranch and the criminal world it embodied, Lang critiqued the emerging Cold War ideology of the man as patriarchal figure and bread-winner. At the same time, by moving Dietrich progressively towards the centre of the film, he produced an amalgam of the women’s film and the Western genre that suggested the pointlessness of the male aggression the Western itself had traditionally embodied.…”
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The Debate Between Realism and Formalism in Contemporary International Law (Emphasizing the Procedure of the International Court of Justice) by Sepanta Mojtahedzadeh

“…The answer that we got in brief is that the debate between these two methods in contemporary international law and as a result in the opinions of the International Court of Justice, has not had a clearly defined winner. However, the tendency is more towards formalism.…”
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Calebasses anthropophages et dévoreurs africains by Jean-Loïc Le Quellec

“…This new variant would have spread to the West and South, giving birth to stories in which there is only the calabash, and these new versions would have been more particularly implanted in the West and enriched by a new motive: the one according to which the winner of this vegetal Devourer is no longer a human, but an animal, and more particularly a ram.…”
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Wort und Unwort des Jahres. Sprache als Spiegelbild gesellschaftspolitischer Prozesse by Peter Chmiel

“…The Society for the German Language (GfdS) in Wiesbaden has been selecting the word of the year since 1971. The first “winner” in the surveys was the adjective aufmüpfig (‘rebellious’), followed in second and third place by the nouns Junktim and Umweltschutz (‘environmental protection’). 20 years later, the ‘non-word’ of the year was added to the list. …”
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Aleksandr Bogdanov and Lenin on “Things-In-Themselves” by Oittinen Vesa

“…In the Soviet era, Lenin was depicted as the winner of the dispute. But a closer examination of Bogdanov’s arguments shows that he actually found some weak points in Lenin’s conception. …”
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Ataxia and Seizures despite Phenytoin: A Case Report Highlighting the Importance of TDM and Genetic Influences by Rachel Manoj, Arpita Meher, Jefry Winner G.

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Simulating Systems Thinking under Bounded Rationality by Mark W. Sellers, Hiroki Sayama, Andreas D. Pape

“…Nine different agents, designed from both traditional and systems perspectives, compete in fifteen variants of the El Farol environment and their performance in 4 categories—Winner, Top Performers, Competitive, and Vulnerable—is compared. …”
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Self-acronyms in election advertising discourse: rhetorical study by Fahrudin Eko Hardiyanto

“…Acronyms belonging to the name shortening (initialization) are the words Asri, Wali, Si Bagus, Mukti, Jati, Nasir Jos, Breadfruit, Ada, Conscience, Suko, Aman To, Mae, Harjo, Hati Mulya, The Winner, and Must. While those that are classified as mottos are Dadi, Charismatic, Super Sumeh, Sweet, Grateful, and Definitely Fragrant. …”
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Nadzieja w dyskursie afektywnym Czesława Miłosza by Agnieszka Rydz

“…The author realizes the theme based on the novel The Issa valley by the Polish Nobel Prize winner. The basic context in this sketch is the logotherapy project of Emanuel V. …”
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Equally weighted portfolios and “momentum effect”: an interesting combination for unsophisticated investors? by Fabio Civiletti, Carlos Heitor Campani, Raphael Roquete

“…The results corroborate the hypothesis of the “momentum effect”. Winner portfolios also were indicated asgood alternatives as investment strategies, since they presented higher median returns and Sharpe ratios than the benchmark, as well as positive alphas. …”
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On a Unique Solution of the Stochastic Functional Equation Arising in Gambling Theory and Human Learning Process by Ali Turab, Awad A. Bakery, O. M. Kalthum S. K. Mohamed, Wajahat Ali

“…If a chip is provided, it is declared a winner; otherwise, it is considered a loser. The goal of this paper is to look at the subject’s actions in such situations and provide a mathematical model that is appropriate for it. …”
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Truthful incentive mechanism for “digital currency”based on privacy protection by Xiao CHEN, Xinran LYU, Zhi LIU

“…Many national central banks have conducted legal digital currency research based on distributed ledger technology,but only the UK has disclosed the accounting structure of the legal digital currency framework RSCoin,and the incentive mechanisms was proposed to encourage mintettes to provide honest collaborative accounting services.However,this mechanism does not take into account the differential service costs of mintettes,nor does it give a definite compensation distribution.The privacy costs of the mintettes were fully considered,the incentive model of the central bank and mintettes were established,and the methods were clarified to compensate mintettes.In the legal digital currency research area,an incentive mechanism POPTIM was proposed firstly,that not only protects the private cost of the mintettes,but also guarantees the mintettes report their truthful bidding prices to the central banks.POPTIM first encrypts the biddings of mintettes by coding hash encryption method,then adopts privacy-preserving sorting algorithm to select the winner mintettes,and finally calculates the reward of mintettes based on the homomorphic addition algorithm.The analysis shows that the mechanism is privacy security,computationally efficient,individually rational and truthful simultaneously.…”
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Support Vector Regression and Beta Distribution for the Modeling of Incumbent Party vote for Presidential Elections by R., Kikawa, M, N. Ngungu, D., Ntirampeba, A., Ssematimba

“…The aim of our study is to model and predict, rather than explain presidential election results, using selected quarterly macroeconomic indicators, say, gross national product, consumer price index, unemployment rate and gross national product from 1994-2017.Particularly, we seek to provide predictions of presidential winner prior to the elections based on the beta distribution and the support vector regression (SVR) as prediction models.Two models are primarily built based on beta distribution and SVR. …”
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N3LL + O α s 2 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_s^2\right) $$ predictions of lepton-jet azimuthal angular distribution in deep-inelastic scattering by Shen Fang, Mei-Sen Gao, Hai Tao Li, Ding Yu Shao

“…In this study, jets are defined in the lab frame using the anti-k T clustering algorithm and the winner-take-all recombination scheme. The N3LL resummation results are derived from the transverse-momentum dependent factorization formula within the soft-collinear effective theory, while the O α s 2 $$ \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_s^2\right) $$ fixed-order matching distribution is calculated using the NLOJET++ event generator. …”
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Stock investment funds in Brazil: performance and management expertise by Paulo Rogério Faustino Matos, Artur Nave

“…The quadrimestral rebalancing of the portfolios based on these rankings permits inferring that in scenarios characterized as economic booms or recovery of financial markets, the strategies with equal participation in winner funds provides significantly higher average monthly gains, reduction of risk associated with diversification and consequently enhanced performance in relation to market or sector benchmarks. …”
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