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An analysis of acceptance policies for blockchain transactions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The standard acceptance policy for a cryptocurrency transaction at most exchanges is to wait until the transaction is placed in the blockchain and followed by a certain number of blocks.
Eyal, Ittay   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Do Institutions Make Street‐Level Bureaucrats Prosocial? Agent‐Based Evidence Shows That New Public Management Does Not

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does street‐level bureaucrats' (SLBs) willingness to sacrifice their own self‐interests to meet the needs of their clients vary depending on their contexts? To date, it has been very challenging to empirically examine how SLBs who have different orientations toward social values might act in different institutional and administrative contexts.
Nissim Cohen, Teddy Lazebnik
wiley   +1 more source

Edible Antifungal Coatings Based on Litchi Chinensis Seed Starch Enriched With Pericarp Procyanidins for the Postharvest Preservation of Strawberries

open access: yesFood Chemistry International, EarlyView.
Lychee starch coatings enriched with procyanidins showed strong antifungal activity and effectively preserved strawberry quality postharvest, reducing weight loss, decay, and senescence. This highlights their potential as a sustainable natural alternative for shelf‐life extension and fungal control in fresh produce.
Guillermo Castillo‐Olvera   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitising biological collections to advance National Species Inventories: A case study from the flora of Chile

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
In response to Chile's public policy to establish a national biodiversity inventory and monitoring system, we launched the HerbarioDigital.cl portal. We have digitised over 120,000 specimens representing more than 3,900 species from two Chilean herbaria, integrating them through a curated local taxonomic index.
Ricardo A. Segovia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knee height is often right: evaluating device height effects on camera trapping rate

open access: yesRemote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Camera trap deployment height can introduce systematic biases in detection trapping rates across species of different body sizes. Combining 172 paired sampling points in five experiments across Europe, North America and Africa, our results show that low cameras significantly increase detections of small‐ and medium‐sized species, whereas high cameras ...
Jorge Sereno‐Cadierno   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

New opportunities for grassland species in warming temperate winters

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Temperate winters are getting warmer, the length of the growing season is increasing and mid‐winter fluctuations of warm and freezing temperatures are more frequent. Although typically winter dormant, some herbaceous perennials can maintain or grow green leaves during ...
F. Curtis Lubbe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

LA ACTIVIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA DEL INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS PIRENAICOS / LA ACTIVIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA DE LA INSTITUCIÓN PRINCIPE DE VIANA / EL MUSEO ETNOLOGICO Y COLONIAL DE BARCELONA / VI CONGRESO ARQUEOLÓGICO DEL SUDESTE ESPAÑOL. ALCOY 1950 / I CONGRESO INTERNACIO

open access: yesZephyrus, 2009
LA ACTIVIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA DEL INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS PIRENAICOSLA ACTIVIDAD ARQUEOLÓGICA DE LA INSTITUCIÓN PRINCIPE DE VIANAEL MUSEO ETNOLOGICO Y COLONIAL DE BARCELONAVI CONGRESO ARQUEOLÓGICO DEL SUDESTE ESPAÑOL.
Secretaría de Redacción ZEPHYRUS
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Secure multi-party computation for analytics deployed as a lightweight web application [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We describe the definition, design, implementation, and deployment of a secure multi-party computation protocol and web application. The protocol and application allow groups of cooperating parties with minimal expertise and no specialized resources to ...
Bestavros, Azer   +4 more
core   +1 more source

In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

estar: An R package to measure ecological stability

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Assessing ecological stability is a key task in biodiversity monitoring and conservation. Quantifying stability is not trivial because its different aspects can be measured with various properties. However, to date, no software enables measuring different stability properties on ecological time‐series data.
Ludmilla Figueiredo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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