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Showing 1 to 20 of 534 for “"Stake"”.
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What's at stake in political messaging?
Campaigns spend billions attempting to persuade voters – with factual arguments, group cues, moral appeals, character attacks, and targeted messages tailored for a particular demographic – yet such persuasion campaigns are often found to have only ‘minimal effects’. In this thesis, I investigate …
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Spray stake irrigation of container-grown plants
… - amount leached) amount applied' 100] of spray stake-irrigated, container-grown plants. In the first experiment, pine bark-filled containers were irrigated to replace moisture deficits of 600, 1200, or 1800 ml. Deficits were returned in single, continuous applications at application rates of …
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An autonomous ablation stake for glacier mass balance measurements
Í þessari ritgerð er kynnt þráðlaust ígreypt kerfi sem ætlað er til mælinga á massajafnvægi jökla. Kerfið er í formi stiku sem er sett í borholu á jökulfleti. Tilgangur þess er að mæla breytinguna á yfirborðshæð jökulísins þar sem uppsafnanir eða leysingar eiga sér stað, breytingin er fengin með …
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An alternative paradigm to analyze proof-of-stake protocols
Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T01:13:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 TRAN-THESIS-2021.pdf: 727856 bytes, checksum: 592dab0344d2e18481922ac0f004b0e0 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4206 bytes, checksum: 7fa3df11382bb4db5245ed7b0d39bbd2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-04-27
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Proof-of-stake longest chain protocols: security vs predicability
… than 50% of the total hashing power. Proof-of-stake (PoS) protocols are an energy-efficient alternative; however existing protocols adopting Nakamoto’s longest chain design achieve provable security only by allowing long-term predictability, subjecting the system to serious bribery attacks. In …
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Barracuda: The power of l-polling in proof of stake blockchains
Blockchain is a database of storing sequential events as a chain of blocks consistently across a distributed set of nodes. A fundamental problem in doing so is to decide where to put the next block and who should do it in a Sybil-resistant manner. To solve this problem, typically, a node is elected …
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Writer with more at stake : returning adults in the freshman composition classroom
In recent years, adults beyond the traditional college ages of 18-22 have been returning to higher education in record numbers. At most colleges, these students, along with their younger counterparts, are required to take two or three terms of freshman composition. Although returning students may …
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Formally verifying the security properties of a proof-of-stake blockchain protocol
… scalable. In the light of this problem, Proof-of-Stake (PoS) was suggested to replace PoW. PoS-based blockchain protocols, instead of using computational power, use in-system currency to agree on a new block to be added, but keep mostly everything else the same. Kiayias et al. was the first to …
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Is Talk Cheap in High Stake Trust Games? An Experimental Analysis of Decentralized Cooperation
<p>Paper I. Trusting strangers when the stakes are high can be a risky endeavor. The fact that individuals cannot directly observe each other’s willingness to cooperate creates one of the central dilemmas in bargaining. The aim of this study is to investigate whether cheap talk is effective in high …
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The European Union at stake? A comparative analysis on the dimensions of EU decisionmaking in crisis settings
<p>This thesis examines how the EU as an international organization deals with international crisis situations by looking at its functions and imperfections in its decision-making process. Drawing from theoretical organization theory insights, particularly realism and constructivism, as well as …
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The Stake and the Chip: Biomedical and Genomic Discourse and the Management of Difference in Popular Culture
"Metaphors about bodies and their management help us better understand the assimilation of scientific paradigms into popular culture. At the same time, they underline the value of popular language and imagery as a way of appropriating science into popular imagination. This study investigates key …
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A place where all things are spoken : making the Vernon BC Stake Relief Society a place for her voice
… inquiry was: How might women in the Vernon BC Stake Relief Society enthusiastically take up their roles as leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ? Using a systemic action research (SAR) methodology—paired with the principles of appreciative inquiry—members of the Vernon BC Stake Relief Society …
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Development of a Collaborative Decision-Making Framework to Improve the Patients’ Service Quality in the Intensive Care Unit During the COVID-19 Pandemic
… accurately and efficiently including multiple stake-holders. Especially during this COVID-19 pandemic, service improvement decisions in Intensive Care Units (ICU) are considered to be a critical factor. Many implemented solutions in the healthcare sector become unsustainable in the long term …
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Women's and gender studies instruction : teaching to replace the Renaissance man in the face of conservatism
… 2014; Kelly & Breinlinger, 1995; Sevelius & Stake, 2003; Spoor & LehMiller, 2014; Stake, 2006; 2007; Stake & Gerner, 1987; Stake & Hoffman, 2001; Stake & Rose, 1994; Zucker, 2004). To address this gap in the literature, I explored the experiences and efforts of instructors while teaching for …
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Government-Industry Relations After Decentralization: From the Five-Year Plan to the World Trade Organization
… negotiators refused to give concessions on ?high stake? sectors where the economic bureaucracies have high incentives to develop the industries; on uncompetitive sectors due to their loss-aversion tendency to minimise domestic political, economic and social damages; and on concentrated sectors for …
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Incorporating technology into the Lesotho science curriculum: investigating the gap between the intended and the implemented curriculum
… is based on the framework first proposed by Stake (1967). Stake’s model addresses the relationship between the intended curriculum and the implemented curriculum (Stenhouse, 1988). In this study the intended curriculum is defined as the curriculum plan as depicted in the curriculum …
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Vault : fast bootstrapping for cryptocurrencies
… Vault builds on Algorand's proof-of-stake consensus protocol and uses several techniques to achieve its goals. First, Vault decouples the storage of recent transactions from the storage of account balances, which enables Vault to delete old account state. Second, Vault allows sharding …
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Perceptions of Male Urban College Students of Color: Police, Policing, and the Impact on Their Educational Experiences
… (Creswell, 2007, 2014; Merriam & Tisdell, 2016; Stake, 2006) consisting of a multiple case study methodology (Saldana, 2016; Stake, 2006; Saldana, 2016; Seidman, 2012) and an educational-life history (Cole & Knowles, 2001; Goodson & Gill, 2001; Hatch & Wisniewski, 1995) approach, the stories of …
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Who Cares? Community Value in the Preservation of Seattle's Historic Public Schools
… and local communities, all have a stake in the future of Seattle’s historic school buildings. But they can’t seem to agree on what is significant about these buildings. SPS wants to redevelop its properties for educational needs. Preservationists see them as significant historical …
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Understanding scalability in distributed ledger technology
… known as Serenity, introduces sharding, proof of stake (Casper), plasma and state channels in and effort to scale the system. EOS uses a delegated proof of stake (DPoS) protocol, where 21 super-nodes, termed ‘block producers' (BPs), facilitate consensus, bringing about significant scalability …
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