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Solving the Large-Scale TSP Problem in 1 h: Santa Claus Challenge 2020 [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 The scalability of traveling salesperson problem (TSP) algorithms for handling large-scale problem instances has been an open problem for a long time. We arranged a so-called Santa Claus challenge and invited people to submit their algorithms to solve a ...
Radu Mariescu-Istodor, Pasi Fränti
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Oliver Twist and Santa Claus. [PDF]
EMBO Rep, 2004 In the film version of Charles Dickens' famous novel, the innocent‐looking Oliver Twist approaches Mr Bumble, the orphanage's powerful controller of nourishment, and asks for an extra helping of gruel. “More!?” thunders an indignant Bumble, visibly upset by such an impertinent request.
Gannon F.
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RadioComics—Santa Claus and the breakthrough reaction [PDF]
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Paolo Lombardo, Knud Nairz, Ingrid Boehm
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Does Father Christmas Have a Distinctive Facial Phenotype? [PDF]
Vision, 2022 We investigated whether Father Christmas has a distinguishable facial phenotype by performing a cross-sectional cohort study examining the facial feature vectors of all publicly available photographs obtained from a google image search of individuals ...
Thomas Wright +3 more
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The occupational health of Santa Claus. [PDF]
J Occup Med Toxicol, 2015 Previous publications in the field of Santa studies have not focused on health and safety issues arising from Santa's workplace activities. However, it should be acknowledged that unique occupational hazards exist for Santa Claus. Major occupational health issues affecting Santa are discussed, along with suggestions for future research directions.
Straube S, Fan X.
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Santa Claus rally and the Indian stock market: A comprehensive analysis
IIMB Management Review, 2021 The study examines the leading Indian stock market indices all of which reflect the “Santa Claus rally” effect where significantly higher daily returns accrue to investors in the last five trading days of December and the first two trading days of the ...
Srinivas Nippani, Shekar Shetty
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Literature, 2022 Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita’s first novel, Through the Arc of the Rainforest (1990), portrays protagonist Kazumasa Ishimaru as “a Japanese Santa Claus”, depicted as having a plastic ball spinning in front of his face.
Rie Makino
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ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, 2010 With the commercial development of multicore processors, the challenges of writing multithreaded programs to take advantage of these new hardware architectures are becoming more and more pertinent. Concurrent programming is necessary to achieve the performance that the hardware offers. Traditional approaches present concurrency as an
Peter H. Welch, Jan B. Pedersen
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