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To Mine or Not to Mine? The Bitcoin Mining Paradox
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020The aim of this paper is to study the profitability of Bitcoin mining, using the real options theory. The main factors driving the marginal Bitcoin mining profitability are the Bitcoin price, the hash-rate, the predictability of mining difficulty and the hardware efficiency.
Rostislav Haliplii +2 more
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2023
Abstract When patients cannot speak for themselves, clinicians look to surrogates to represent their wishes. Surrogate decision makers may not know the patient’s wishes; in which case, they typically try to think of the patient’s best interests or sometimes their own.
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Abstract When patients cannot speak for themselves, clinicians look to surrogates to represent their wishes. Surrogate decision makers may not know the patient’s wishes; in which case, they typically try to think of the patient’s best interests or sometimes their own.
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009
Territoriality, the expression of ownership towards an object, can emerge when social actors occupy a shared social space. In the case of Wikipedia, the prevailing cultural norm is one that warns against ownership of one's work. However, we observe the emergence of territoriality in online space with respect to a subset of articles that have been ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli +2 more
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Territoriality, the expression of ownership towards an object, can emerge when social actors occupy a shared social space. In the case of Wikipedia, the prevailing cultural norm is one that warns against ownership of one's work. However, we observe the emergence of territoriality in online space with respect to a subset of articles that have been ...
Jennifer Thom-Santelli +2 more
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2019
Social studies of science have flourished within the last decades, making use of numerous intellectual tools from a high variety of academic fields in the social sciences and the humanities (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, etc.). Game theory, however, has been one tool that has not been put to use too often, in spite of the obvious ...
Jesus Pedro Zamora Bonilla +1 more
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Social studies of science have flourished within the last decades, making use of numerous intellectual tools from a high variety of academic fields in the social sciences and the humanities (sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, etc.). Game theory, however, has been one tool that has not been put to use too often, in spite of the obvious ...
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To Mine or Not to Mine Groundwater
Journal AWWA, 1978Although groundwater mining is an obvious means of increasing water supply to meet the demands of a growing population, it is in many areas a debatable issue. The advantages and disadvantages of continued mining of groundwater in the Chicago, III., area, as determined through a series of studies conducted by the Illinois State Water Survey, are ...
Robert T. Sasman, Richard J. Schicht
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Science, 2018
Oceans The seafloor contains large amounts of valuable minerals that are increasingly seen as viable mining targets. In a Perspective, Boetius and Haeckel argue that such mining would carry large environmental risks—for example, to little-known ecological communities in the deep sea ...
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Oceans The seafloor contains large amounts of valuable minerals that are increasingly seen as viable mining targets. In a Perspective, Boetius and Haeckel argue that such mining would carry large environmental risks—for example, to little-known ecological communities in the deep sea ...
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Sustainability Mining: Water for Mining, and Mining Water
2014This chapter examines the multifaceted nature of the relationship between water and mining. Several perspectives are offered. Mines are located to gain access to the mineral, but this is always in the context of water. The conditions under which the water has carved a catchment are strongly influenced by the climatic regime and the geological ...
Gemma Broderick, Pierre Horwitz
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Communications of the ACM, 2009
Using real event data to X-ray business processes helps ensure conformance between design and reality.
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Using real event data to X-ray business processes helps ensure conformance between design and reality.
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