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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Intelligent approaches are required to extract valuable phenological information from time‐series digital camera photos. In this research, we employed YOLO‐based object detection and semantic segmentation models to identify flowers and flower pixels, acquire flower count and flower cover data, and extract phenophases such as first, peak, and end ...
Chuangye Song +3 more
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Passive Acoustic Identification of Social Groups in the Hainan Gibbon
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.Passive acoustic monitoring offers a non‐invasive means of assessing visually hard‐to‐survey wildlife species with distinctive vocalizations. We evaluated whether deep learning can identify Hainan gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) social groups from their calls.
Emmanuel Kabuga +14 more
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Leveraging blockchain for robust and transparent E-voting systems
Cyber Security and ApplicationsVoting is considered one of the most critical actions for proper decision-making in governmental entities, boards of directors, and the financial sector. Many researchers proposed E-voting systems where the voting process is done online or through secure
Fatima Abo-Akleek +3 more
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Forward-Secure Linkable Ring Signatures from Bilinear Maps
Cryptography, 2018 We present the first linkable ring signature scheme with both unconditional anonymity and forward-secure key update: a powerful tool which has direct applications in elegantly addressing a number of simultaneous constraints in remote electronic voting ...
Xavier Boyen, Thomas Haines
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are increasing calls for a place‐based approach towards the Sustainable Development Goals that show their territorial diversity at subnational level. Based on 33 indicators, covering 13 SDGs and aggregated in three sub‐indexes (economy, social and environment), this paper develops a Sustainable Development Index for Rural and Urban Areas
Lucas Olmedo +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The fifth industrial revolution (I5.0), which is based on the utilization of interconnected data for efficient resource usage in meeting human requirements, proposes efficient solutions to resource constraint situations. However, the transition to I5.0 in the health sector is not easy and has to face several obstacles.
Ajay Jha +5 more
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Voting Power and Voting Blocs [PDF]
We investigate the applicability of voting power indices, in particular the Penrose index (aka absolute Banzhaf index), in the analysis of voting blocs by means of a hypothetical voting body.
Leech, Dennis, Leech, Robert
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Politics and Governance, 2016 While European elections are often seen as remote from EU issues, considerations specifically linked to the EU came to the forefront in the wake of the 2014 European elections: the economic and financial crisis, the new process of designation of the ...
Camille Kelbel +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga +1 more
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Voting and the Cardinal Aggregation of Judgments [PDF]
, 2004 The paper elaborates the idea that voting is an instance of the aggregation of judgments, this being a more general concept than the aggregation of preferences. To aggregate judgments one must first measure them.
Hillinger, Claude
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