Bitcoin, a decentralized cryptocurrency, has attracted a lot of attention from academia, financial service industry and enthusiasts. The trade-off between transaction confirmation throughput and centralization of hash power do not allow Bitcoin to perform at the same level as modern payment systems. Block Advertisement Protocol is proposed as a step to resolve this issue. The protocol allows bl...

The Internet has revolutionized the way knowledge is currently produced, stored and disseminated. A few finger clicks on a keyboard can save time and many hours of search in libraries or shopping in stores. Online trademarks with an (e-) prefix such as e-library, e-business, e-health etc., are increasingly part of our daily professional vocabularies. However, the Internet has also produced mult...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are able to provide instantaneous visual cues and a high-level data throughput that could be further leveraged address complex tasks, such as semantically rich scene understanding. In this work, we built on the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) Visual (VLMs), together with state-of-the-art detection pipeline, thorough zero-shot UAV literary text descriptions. T...

In complex acoustic choruses, competitive call timing interactions are often important in female mate choice. In the treefrog Dendropsophus ebraccatus, neighboring males’ advertisement calls tend to overlap and females prefer lagging calls. Males that produce leading advertisement calls are thus at a disadvantage relative to lagging males. In this study, I propose a novel strategy by which lead...

Superintendent, Campbell Medical School and Hospital (Formerly Police Surgeon, Calcutta, and Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Medical College, Calcutta) During my tenure of office, for nearly 10 years, as police surgeon of Calcutta and professor of medical jurisprudence of both the medical colleges in Calcutta, no other subject presented so many difficulties and peculiarities as the determin...

the current study aims to investigate the effective factors on brand equity with an enphasis on monetary and non-monetary promotion and corporate image among students of shahid beheshti university. evaluation of variables was conducted by means of questionnaire. after determining reliability and validity, the questionnaire was distributed among the samples  including 344 students of shahid behe...

With the rapid development of the Internet, Web marketing has become more and more popular among businesses. However, excessive advertisement information is not only a burden to consumers but also a waste of marketing efforts. In this study, a personalized Web advertisement selection and recommendation system is proposed through a membership-based advertisement marketing website whose advertise...

The purpose of our research deals with the description of a methodology for the definition of specific weather sequences and their influence on the energy needs of HVAC system. We’ll apply the method on the tropical Reunion Island. The methodological approach based on a detailed analysis of weather sequences leads to a classification of climatic situations that can be applied to the site. These...

Most of studies about online advertisements have indicated that they have a negative impact on users' cognitive processes, especially when they include colorful or animated banners and when they are close to the text to be read. In the present study we assessed the effects of two advertisements features-distance from the text and the animation-on visual strategies during a word-search task and ...

The σ -convergence and σ -core of a real bounded sequence were introduced in [R. Raimi, Invariant means and invariant matrix methods of summability, Duke Math. J. 30 (1963) 81–94] and [S.L. Mishra, B. Satapathy, N. Rath, Invariant means and σ -core, J. Indian Math. Soc. 60 (1984) 151–158], respectively. In this work, we extend these ideas to double sequences. c © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights r...