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A Decentralized ETC Architecture Based on Blockchain Technology
Electronic toll collection (ETC) has been widely spread in China, providing efficient, comfortable, and convenient toll services. However, the nature of centralization of those ETC systems has incurred serious security threatens.
Shize Huang+4 more
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A Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Scheme Using EtC Images [PDF]
We propose a privacy-preserving machine learning scheme with encryption-then-compression (EtC) images, where EtC images are images encrypted by using a block-based encryption method proposed for EtC systems with JPEG compression.
Ayana Kawamura+4 more
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The human character can be understood as an extension of the life mission or purpose of life, and explained as the primary tool of a person to impact others and express the purpose of life. Repression of the human character makes it impossible for a person to realize his personal mission in life and, therefore, is one of the primary causes of self ...
Søren Ventegodt+4 more
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Conservation beyond biopolitics: Vulnerability and abundance in Chennai's nature‐cultures
Short Abstract This paper examines a breadth of natures and nature practices in Chennai, India, to illuminate the socio‐material processes that undermine some natures even while supporting others, and to highlight paradoxical responses to nonhuman agencies and resilience within the domain of ecological concern.
Krithika Srinivasan
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This issue (Vol. 17 issues 2) of Hunafa: Jurnal Studia Islamika offers eight articles covering topics of Islamic studies. Various issues relating to Islamic studies are interestingly presented to contribute to the body of knowledge and practices ...
Nurdin Nurdin
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Diversity Dynamics: How Local Religious Groups Appear, Persist, or Disappear over Time
Abstract Religious diversity is often described and measured statically. This article goes a step further by describing how congregational religious diversity changes over time, and by exposing the mechanisms underlying these changes. We combine data from two censuses (from 2008 and 2020) of congregations in Switzerland with a sample‐based national ...
Jeremy Senn+2 more
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New religious movements and science: What now, what next, where to?
Abstract This article draws on Stefano Bigliardi's recent Cambridge University Press Element New Religious Movements and Science, which provides an historical and comparative examination of how science is conceptualized within five New Religious Movements. We analyze Bigliardi's methodology and results, and offer multiple suggestions on how scholarship
Stefano Bigliardi, Adam J. Chin
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The Charter of Madinah is not the world's first written constitution though it has the highest covenant and constitutional characteristics in terms of its content and meaning. The covenant is a distinct constitution emblematic of the Quran and Sunnah. In
Owais Anwer, Muhammad Ishaq Alam
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A misinterpreted psychoanalyst: Herbert Silberer and his theory of symbol‐formation
Abstract The primary aim of this article is to give a more detailed exposition of the cultural, personal, and theoretical contexts in which the Viennese psychoanalyst, Herbert Silberer's theories were born. When assessing the broader picture that this approach offers, it can be concluded that Silberer was an innovative thinker who inspired several of ...
Júlia Gyimesi
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THE INFLUENCE OF THEOSOPHY ON MODERN PAINTING
An interesting subject that delves into the junction of spirituality, philosophy, and creative expression is the effect of Theosophy on contemporary painting. In the late 19th century, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky established the spiritual movement known as
Murtadha Atewa Abed
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