Consider a three‐tier industry with monopolist supplying manufacturer which sells its product to final consumers through two retailers. Contracts are linear and secret. Hence, upon receiving an out‐of‐equilibrium offer, each retailer must form belief about the identity of deviating upstream firm. This beliefs' specification problem wipes out if Open Book Accounting (OBA) policy is implemented, ...

Online behavioral advertising (OBA) refers to the practice of tracking users across web sites in order to infer user interests and preferences. These interests and preferences are then used for selecting ads to present to the user. There is great concern that behavioral advertising in its present form infringes on user privacy. The resulting public debate — which includes consumer advocacy orga...

Context.Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products for the astronomical community to exploit, including astrophysical parameters half billion stars. In this work, we demonstrate high quality these and illustrate their use in different contexts. Aims. We produce homogeneous samples stars with high-quality by exploiting Gaia DR3, while focusing on many regimes across Hertzsp...

Oversight of recombinant DNA research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is predicated on ethical and scientific responsibilities that are akin, in many ways, to those that pertain to the oversight of animal research. The NIH system of oversight, which originated more than 25 years ago, is managed by the NIH Office of Biotechnology Activities (OBA), which uses various tools to fulfill i...

Extending earlier work, we conducted an online user study to investigate users’ understanding of online behavioral advertising (OBA) and tracking prevention tools (TPT), and whether users’ willingness to share data with advertising companies varied depending on the type of first party website. We presented results of 368 participant responses across four types of websites an online banking site...

The increasing incidence of skin cancer in the populations of Australia and North America provided the impetus for developing educational programs about the risks of sun exposure and for developing sunscreens and sun protective clothing. In an effort to develop better fabrics for sun protective clothing, scientists have completed many studies investigating various factors influencing ultraviole...

Occlusion Aware Bayesian Tracker Kourosh MESHGI Shin-ichi MAEDA Shigeyuki OBA and Shin ISHII †Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji-shi, Kyoto, 611-0011 Japan E-mail: †{meshgi-k,ichi,oba,ishii}@sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp Abstract Object tracking has attracted considerable attention recently because of high demands for its everyday-life applications. Appearance-based trackers h...

به منظور تولید رادیوایزوتوپ تکنسیم-۹۹ حاصل از واپاشی رادیواکتیو مولیبدن-۹۹ و خالص‌­سازی محصول فرایند انحلال اسیدی هدف مینیاتوری، لازم است آلودگی ید گازی در حد قابل قبولی کاهش یابد. این جاذب‌های جامد استفاده می‌شود. یکی بهترین مورد موردنیت حاوی نقره تشکیل شده است. پژوهش روش سنتز مشخصات جاذب بررسی قرار گرفته برای تهیه بلورهای حفره‌دار با اندازه حدود ۱۰ میکرومتر نسبت آلومینیم سیلیکون برابر 2/5 شد ...