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Converting Binary Floating‐Point Numbers to Shortest Decimal Strings: An Experimental Review

Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background When sharing or logging numerical data, we must convert binary floating‐point numbers into their decimal string representations. For example, the number π might become 3.1415927. Engineers have perfected many algorithms for producing such accurate, short strings.
Jaël Champagne Gareau, Daniel Lemire
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Quantifying Structural Complexity, Effort, and Performance: An Early Experiment Using Network Design Tasks

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Structural Complexity is perceived as driving cost in system development, yet managing it effectively requires empirical understanding. This study investigates human decision‐making using a toy transportation‐style network design task, focusing on how Structural Complexity, Effort, and Performance interact. Seventy‐four participants (primarily
Alfonso Lanza, Joshua Sutherland, Marc‐Andre Chavy‐Macdonald, Olivier L. de Weck   +3 more
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Blockchain and Digital Technologies in the Telecommunications Industry

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how fourth industrial revolution (4IR) technologies, specifically blockchain and digital twin technologies, can be utilized to address the energy supply challenge and enhance the management of distributed telecom infrastructure assets in a research context.
Charles Okeyia, Nuno Marques de Almeida, Joe Amad‐Echendu, Simplice A. Asongu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bridge Transformer Network With Deep Graph Convolution for Hyperspectral Image Classification

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transformers have been widely applied to hyperspectral image classification, leveraging their self‐attention mechanism for powerful global modelling. However, two key challenges remain as follows: excessive memory and computational costs from calculating correlations between all tokens (especially as image size or spectral bands increase) and ...
Yuquan Gan, Siyu Wu, Chang Su, Nan Xiang, Zhijie Xu, Yushan Pan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain technology disruptions: Exploring accounting and auditing academics and practitioners' perception

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the practical impact of blockchain technology (BCT), which contrasts strongly with literature that has predominantly hypothesised BCT's potential to disrupt accounting practice. We interviewed 44 practitioners and academics with knowledge of BCT across 13 countries and industries.
Musbaudeen Titilope Oladejo, Vida Botes, Mary Low, Steve Reeves   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Provably Secure ECC-Based Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement for IoT

Applied Sciences
With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), maintaining data confidentiality and protecting user privacy have become increasingly challenging. End devices in the IoT are often deployed in unattended environments and connected to open networks, making ...
Shunfang Hu, Shaoping Jiang, Qing Miao, Fan Yang, Weihong Zhou, Peng Duan   +5 more
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Implicit Promises and the Timing of Defined‐Benefit Pension Plan Freezes

Financial 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

The Making of the EU's Geoeconomic ‘Bazooka’: The Anti‐Coercion Instrument and the Role of Think Tanks in European Union Foreign Policy

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The Anti‐Coercion Instrument (ACI), the most powerful tool in the EU's geoeconomic arsenal, has its origins in the first Trump US presidency and has recently been brandished again as a potential response to Trump's coercive tariffs. Its centrality to the EU's ‘geoeconomic turn’ and the twists and turns of its legislative history have been ...
Jaša Veselinovič
wiley   +1 more source

Hear Me Out: A Lesson in Civil Discourse

Journal of Legal Studies Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This article describes an innovative and engaging lecture and class exercise designed to teach students how to think critically about issues from different perspectives and communicate effectively with those who disagree with them. The interactive lecture and class exercise introduce a civil discourse framework to encourage constructive ...
Cheryl L. Black
wiley   +1 more source

The Drivers of Science Referenced in US EPA Regulatory Impact Analyses: Open Access, Professional Popularity, and Agency Involvement

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We perform bibliometric analysis on documents for 255 Regulatory Impact Analyzes (RIAs) prepared by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1980 through 2024. Using a series of automated information extraction methods, we extract references from these documents and match them to bibliographic records.
Tyler A. Scott, Sojeong Kim, Liza Wood
wiley   +1 more source