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Practical Pseudo-collisions for Hash Functions ARIRANG-224/384 [PDF]

open access: bronze, 2009
Jian Guo   +4 more
openalex   +1 more source

Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

open access: yesFinancial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Firms time defined‐benefit (DB) plan freezes after CEO turnovers to protect CEO retirement benefits from cost cuts affecting the wider workforce. We document a significant increase in voluntary CEO turnovers just before the freeze, without notable post‐freeze changes.
Zacharias Petrou, Adamos Vlittis
wiley   +1 more source

Breeding and foraging habitat are important in determining foraging ranges of sympatric generalist species

open access: yesIbis, EarlyView.
How far animals travel to gather food for offspring or themselves is a central component of ecology. Among birds, the ‘foraging range’ (straight‐line distance between a central place and a destination) is used to assess potential interactions with anthropogenic stressors such as wind farms.
Chris B. Thaxter   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hash Functions for Diagnostic Information Reduction

open access: diamond, 2007
V. B. Goldshteyn, С. В. Миронов
openalex   +1 more source

An Economic Analysis of Difficulty Adjustment Algorithms in Proof‐of‐Work Blockchain Systems

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the stability of cryptocurrency systems through difficulty adjustment. Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) exhibits instability when the reward elasticity of the hash rate is high, implying that a sharp price reduction could disrupt the current Bitcoin system.
Shunya Noda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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