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Location privacy protection in continuous LBSs: enhancing anonymity via fake queries
Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information SciencesThe dummy-based method is widely used to protect the user’s location privacy in location-based services (LBS) due to its ability to obtain precise query results without the need for a third party.
Hai Liu, Shengqing Hu, NaNa Zhou
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Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.This review focuses on operando studies of battery materials by X‐ray diffraction (XRD) and total X‐ray scattering (TXS). This work highlights potential pitfalls and identify best‐practices for operando studies and reviews some unusual experiments to illustrate how these methods can be applied beyond the evaluation of the early‐stage cycling mechanisms
Amalie Skurtveit +5 more
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Acquiring foreign firms far away might be hazardous to your share price: evidence from Germany [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines shareholder wealth effects of cross-border acquisitions. In a sample of 155 large acquisitions by German corporations from 1985–2006 international transactions in total do not lead to significant announcement returns.
Grote, Michael H., Rücker, Fabian
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Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich +3 more
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Efficient scheme for user's trajectory privacy
Tongxin xuebao, 2015 As one of the most important information in location-based services (LBS),the trajectory privacy for smart devices users has gained increasingly popularity over recent years.To address this problem,(k−1) dummy trajectories to achieve trajectory k ...
Feng-hua LI +5 more
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Net Effects of Gasoline Price Changes on Transit Ridership in U.S. Urban Areas, MTI Report 12-19 [PDF]
, 2015 Using panel data of transit ridership and gasoline prices for ten selected U.S. urbanized areas over the time period of 2002 to 2011, this study analyzes the effect of gasoline prices on ridership of the four main transit modes—bus, light rail, heavy ...
Ali, Rubaba, Iseki, Hiroyuki
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang +3 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Corporate taxation and the location choice of foreign direct investment in EU countries. ESRI WP591, March 2018 [PDF]
, 2018 This paper examines the impact of corporate taxation and other factors on the attractiveness of EU countries to foreign direct investment. In comparison to previous analyses on the location choice of multinational activity in the EU, we use an improved ...
Davies, Ronald B. +2 more
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota +2 more
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