scholarly journals Digital Arenas: The regulatory framework and other relevant issues on eSports online betting

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Stylianos Sykas
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Regulatory Action ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
High Importance ◽  
Commercial World ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Online Betting ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Further Development

The contribution of technological development, in an essential and user-friendly way, to the transition of many aspects of the real world to the digital environment, is constantly creating new habits and new fields of activity. This transition, without any shadow of doubt, leads to new and unknown realities, which, apart from the interest they present, they call for thorough investigation and further regulation, where it is needed. The cases of eSports and online gaming, although not new to the user of the digital age, are of high importance to the investment and commercial world, in terms of their further development and exploitation. In this context, although online betting in eSports has been introduced to the Greek market a few years ago, it is unlikely to be developed according to its dynamics, since issues of legal nature are not settled yet. In order to ensure a secure landscape for eSports online betting, the necessity for transparency and integrity and their protection through regulatory action becomes imperative.

Debt Markets and Investments

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Level Of Detail ◽  
Fixed Income ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Debt Markets ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Distinguishing Features ◽  
Consistent Approach ◽  
Complex Subject

This book provides an objective look into the dynamic world of debt markets, products, valuation, and analysis. It also provides an in-depth understanding about this subject from experts in the field, both practitioners and academics. The coverage extends from discussing basic concepts and their application to increasingly intricate and real-world situations. This volume spans the gamut from theoretical to practical, while attempting to offer a useful balance of detailed and user-friendly coverage. The book has several distinguishing features. It blends the contributions of a global array of scholars and practitioners into a single review of some of the most important topics in this area. The book follows an internally consistent approach in format and style. Hence, it is collectively much more than a compilation of chapters from an array of different authors. It presents theory without unnecessary abstraction, quantitative techniques using basic bond mathematics, and conventions at a useful level of detail. It also incorporates how investment professionals analyze and manage fixed income portfolios. The book emphasizes empirical evidence involving debt securities and markets so it is understandable to a wide array of readers. Each chapter contains discussion questions to help reinforce key concepts. The end of the book contains guideline answers to each question. Readers interested in a broad survey will benefit as will those looking for more in-depth presentations of specific areas within this field of study. In summary, the book provides a fresh look at this intriguing and dynamic but often complex subject.

Hybrid argumentation systems for structured news reports

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTHONY HUNTER
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Hybrid Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Graphical Notation ◽  
The Real ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Argumentation Systems

Numerous argumentation systems have been proposed in the literature. Yet there often appears to be a shortfall between proposed systems and possible applications. In other words, there seems to be a need for further development of proposals for argumentation systems before they can be used widely in decision-support or knowledge management. I believe that this shortfall can be bridged by taking a hybrid approach. Whilst formal foundations are vital, systems that incorporate some of the practical ideas found in some of the informal approaches may make the resulting hybrid systems more useful. In informal approaches, there is often an emphasis on using graphical notation with symbols that relate more closely to the real-world concepts to be modelled. There may also be the incorporation of an argument ontology oriented to the user domain. Furthermore, in informal approaches there can be greater consideration of how users interact with the models, such as allowing users to edit arguments and to weight influences on graphs representing arguments. In this paper, I discuss some of the features of argumentation, review some key formal argumentation systems, identify some of the strengths and weaknesses of these formal proposals and finally consider some ways to develop formal proposals to give hybrid argumentation systems. To focus my discussions, I will consider some applications, in particular an application in analysing structured news reports.

scholarly journals Free and Open Source Tools for Volunteer Geographic Information and Geo-Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 838-863
Author(s):  
Maria Antonia Brovelli ◽  
Blagoj Delipetrev ◽  
Giorgio Zamboni
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Volunteer Geographic Information ◽  
The World ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Gis Software

The availability of new mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) equipped with many sensors is changing or, better, enriching the way we monitor and sense the world that surrounds us. The internet has permeated completely not only our scientific and technological development, but also our life. Only some years ago, we used geospatial data and GIS software installed within our computers. Nowadays, data and operators are provided via the net by means of distributed and shared geo-services and a simple and powerless mobile device is enough to connect them. The possibility of interaction has become not only faster and more user friendly but also active, being individuals and communities free of adding, deleting, and changing contents in real time in the new GeoWeb2.0. This chapter explores GeoWeb2.0.

Users’ Attitudes towards Institutional Repository in Jadavpur University: A Critical Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Sambhu Nath Halder ◽  
Suvra Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Institution ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
User Friendly

This paper examines the user-aware of institutional repositories in Jadavpur University. The main objective of this study is to investigate the awareness of Institutional Repository (IR) in an academic institution and different aspects associated with it, such as, software, sources for user’s awareness, motivators for developing a repository, demand of the users in changing paradigms from traditional to digital environment, etc. In the present days, libraries are also adopting the latest technologies to provide best possible services in user friendly form. This paper also describes the potential role of institutional repositories and its easiness and simplicity of use are attracting more patrons in the use of institutional repositories. Only a wide range of user awareness is needed for proper usage of its beauty. Entirely this paper is based on a critical study, which measures the utility of institutional repositories in users’ point of view.

A Post-Pandemic Strategy to Support Lifelong and Work-Integrated Learning

2022 ◽  
pp. 203-219
Author(s):  
Peter Mozelius
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Real World ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Integrated Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Aspect ◽  
Work Integrated Learning ◽  
User Friendly

Lifelong work-integrated learning is a key challenge in the growing knowledge society, with the Corona pandemic as a catalyst for technology enhancement. This chapter argues for the need of a post-pandemic strategy that rethinks not only the pedagogical aspect but also the technology enhanced and collaborative aspects of lifelong and work-integrated learning. The strategy that is presented in this chapter is based on the author's experience from the BUFFL initiative, a pilot project for industry development at banks and insurance companies through technology-enhanced lifelong learning. The recommendation is a strategy tailored for the target group that supports the work-integrated learning aim of academia providing useful theories for real-world tasks in the industry. Some important components in the strategy are 1) to extend pedagogy with andragogy and heutagogy, 2) the design of user-friendly hybrid environments, and 3) blended communities of practice.

4. Regulating the information society

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-84
Author(s):  
Andrew Murray
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Real World ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Libertarian Paternalism ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Internet Regulation ◽  
Regulation Network ◽  
Supranational Regulation ◽  
John Perry

This chapter examines whether the actions of individuals in the digital environment could be regulated. It first considers John Perry Barlow’s 1996 publication of his Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace, in which he asserts that cyberspace was a separate sovereign space where real-world laws and real-world governments were of little or no effect. Barlow’s forceful challenge to lawmakers and law enforcement bodies gave rise to a school of thought known as cyberlibertarianism. The chapter compares cyberlibertarianism with another school of thought called cyberpaternalism, which rejected the notion that cyberspace was immune from regulatory intervention by real-world regulators. It also explains Lawrence Lessig’s modalities of internet regulation, network communitarianism, private regulators of cyberspace, and states’ supranational regulation of cyberspace. The chapter goes on to examine contemporary theories of internet governance and regulation including libertarian paternalism, platform and intermediary regulation, and algorithmic regulation.

scholarly journals Research and Development of Palmprint Authentication System Based on Android Smartphones

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Xinman Zhang ◽  
Kunlei Jing ◽  
Guokun Song
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Real World ◽  
Gabor Filter ◽  
Identity Authentication ◽  
Discriminative Feature ◽  
Authentication System ◽  
The One ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Improved Algorithm

The security problems of online transactions by smartphones reveal extreme demand for reliable identity authentication systems. With a lower risk of forgery, richer texture, and more comfortable acquisition mode, compared with face, fingerprint, and iris, palmprint is rarely adopted for identity authentication. In this paper, we develop an effective and full-function palmprint authentication system regarding the application on an Android smartphone, which bridges the algorithmic study and application of palmprint authentication. In more detail, an overall system framework is designed with complete functions, including palmprint acquisition, key points location, ROI segmentation, feature extraction, and feature coding. Basically, we develop a palmprint authentication system having user-friendly interfaces and good compatibility with the Android smartphone. Particularly, on the one hand, to guarantee the effectiveness and efficiency of the system, we exploit the practical Log-Gabor filter for feature extraction and discuss the impact of filtering direction, downsampling ratio, and discriminative feature coding to propose an improved algorithm. On the other hand, after exploring the hardware components of the smartphone and the technical development of the Android system, we provide an open technology to extend the biometric methods to real-world applications. On the public PolyU databases, simulation results suggest that the improved algorithm outperforms the original one with a promising accuracy of 100% and a good speed of 0.041 seconds. In real-world authentication, the developed system achieves an accuracy of 98.40% and a speed of 0.051 seconds. All the results verify the accuracy and timeliness of the developed system.

scholarly journals Recent advances in user-friendly computational tools to engineer protein function

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Sequeiros-Borja ◽  
Bartłomiej Surpeta ◽  
Jan Brezovsky
Keyword(s):  
Protein Engineering ◽  
Protein Design ◽  
Protein Function ◽  
Transport Processes ◽  
Allosteric Communication ◽  
Protein Nucleic Acid ◽  
Nucleic Acid Interactions ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Ligand Transport ◽  
Further Development

Abstract Progress in technology and algorithms throughout the past decade has transformed the field of protein design and engineering. Computational approaches have become well-engrained in the processes of tailoring proteins for various biotechnological applications. Many tools and methods are developed and upgraded each year to satisfy the increasing demands and challenges of protein engineering. To help protein engineers and bioinformaticians navigate this emerging wave of dedicated software, we have critically evaluated recent additions to the toolbox regarding their application for semi-rational and rational protein engineering. These newly developed tools identify and prioritize hotspots and analyze the effects of mutations for a variety of properties, comprising ligand binding, protein–protein and protein–nucleic acid interactions, and electrostatic potential. We also discuss notable progress to target elusive protein dynamics and associated properties like ligand-transport processes and allosteric communication. Finally, we discuss several challenges these tools face and provide our perspectives on the further development of readily applicable methods to guide protein engineering efforts.

scholarly journals Optical atomic phase reference and timing

2017 ◽  
Vol 375 (2099) ◽  
pp. 20160241 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Hollberg ◽  
E. H. Cornell ◽  
A. Abdelrahmann
Keyword(s):  
Special Relativity ◽  
Real World ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Cold Atoms ◽  
Cold Atom ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Atomic Clocks ◽  
Commercial World ◽  
Commercial Applications ◽  
Quantum Technology

Atomic clocks based on laser-cooled atoms have made tremendous advances in both accuracy and stability. However, advanced clocks have not found their way into widespread use because there has been little need for such high performance in real-world/commercial applications. The drive in the commercial world favours smaller, lower-power, more robust compact atomic clocks that function well in real-world non-laboratory environments. Although the high-performance atomic frequency references are useful to test Einstein's special relativity more precisely, there are not compelling scientific arguments to expect a breakdown in special relativity. On the other hand, the dynamics of gravity, evidenced by the recent spectacular results in experimental detection of gravity waves by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, shows dramatically that there is new physics to be seen and understood in space–time science. Those systems require strain measurements at less than or equal to 10 −20 . As we discuss here, cold atom optical frequency references are still many orders of magnitude away from the frequency stability that should be achievable with narrow-linewidth quantum transitions and large numbers of very cold atoms, and they may be able to achieve levels of phase stability, Δ Φ / Φ total  ≤ 10 −20 , that could make an important impact in gravity wave science. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Quantum technology for the 21st century’.

scholarly journals Giving Diligence Its Due: Accessing Digital Images in Indigenous Repatriation Efforts

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1260-1273
Author(s):  
Susan Douglas ◽  
Melanie Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Real World ◽  
Image Databases ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Narrow Scope ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Complex Solutions ◽  
Limit Access

An increasing volume of images is available online, but barriers such as digital locks, proprietary interests and narrow scope of information uploaded to image databases maintain structures that have impeded repatriation efforts in the real world. Images of objects (cultural material) in the digital environment support cultural heritage. Institutions are developing complex solutions relevant in the network environment to further repatriation initiatives. These solutions facilitate discovery, opening avenues for research into the ethics of ownership that cross the physical/digital divide. There have been calls for strengthening the potential for use of pertinent information in order to protect and recover cultural heritage through increased visibility. However, some museums still limit access to images. We examine the issues and their implications referencing case studies specific to Indigenous, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada.

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