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U-Net-bin: hacking the document image binarization contest

open access: yesComputer optics, 2019
Image binarization is still a challenging task in a variety of applications. In particular, Document Image Binarization Contest (DIBCO) is organized regularly to track the state-of-the-art techniques for the historical document binarization. In this work
P. Bezmaternykh   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Fitness consequences of outgroup conflict

open access: yeseLife, 2022
In social species across the animal kingdom, conspecific outsiders threaten the valuable resources of groups and their members. This outgroup conflict is recognised as a powerful selection pressure, but we argue that studies explicitly quantifying the ...
Ines Braga Goncalves   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bitcoin Mining as a Contest

open access: yesLedger, 2017
This paper presents a simple game theoretic framework, assuming complete information, to model Bitcoin mining activity. It does so by formalizing the activity as an all-pay contest: a competition where participants contend with each other to win a prize ...
N. Dimitri
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Robots in Action – Professional Contest 2023 [PDF]

open access: yesRobotica & Management, 2023
As we usually do every year, on June 9, 2023, the Robotics Society of Romania, Târgovişte branch, organized the professional student competition "ROBOTS IN ACTION", the 16th edition.
Paul Ciprian PATIC
doaj  

Advantages of social skills for contest resolution [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2019
Animal contests are natural interactions that occur to obtain or defend resources such as food and territory. Selection should favour individuals that can win contests with minimal costs in terms of energy expenditure or injuries.
Irene Camerlink   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Contest architecture [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Economic Theory, 2006
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Moldovanu, Benny, Sela, Aner
openaire   +3 more sources

Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Detection of Equine Parvovirus-Hepatitis Virus and Equine Hepacivirus in Archived Sera from Horses in France and Australia

open access: yesViruses
Reports of newly discovered equine hepatotropic flavi- and parvoviruses have emerged throughout the last decade in many countries, the discovery of which has stimulated a great deal of interest and clinical research.
Christine Fortier   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioral Mechanism Design: Optimal Contests for Simple Agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Incentives are more likely to elicit desired outcomes when they are designed based on accurate models of agents' strategic behavior. A growing literature, however, suggests that people do not quite behave like standard economic agents in a variety of ...
Ghosh, Arpita, Kleinberg, Robert
core  

Transboundary water interaction III: contest and compliance

open access: yesInternational Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2017
This paper serves international water conflict resolution efforts by examining the ways that states contest hegemonic transboundary water arrangements.
M. Zeitoun   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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