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State-Owned Enterprises
The history of state-owned enterprises and their characteristics are briefly presented. Economic efficiency is then examined using the indicators of...
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Learning-augmented algorithms for online subset sum
As one of Karp’s 21 NP-complete problems, the subset sum problem, as well as its generalization, has been well studied. Among the rich literature,...
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On the Problem of the Optimal Choice of Record Values
Let the independent random variables X 1, X 2, … have the same continuous distribution function. The upper record values X (1) = X 1 < X (2) < … generated...
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Childhood
This first chapter talks about Wang Yuan’s family background and his turbulent childhood spent during the Anti-Japanese War.
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: The mechanism and test of the impact of environmental regulation and technological innovation on high quality development
Environmental regulation and technological innovation are two important measures to realize high-quality economic development under the current...
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From Sillery to the Office for Students
On the 14th of March 2012 I was contacted by a search consultant called Mike Dixon about the role of PVC Education at Durham University.
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In Mark Vishik’s Own Words
Vishik is a word I’ve known since birth: “Markiosich” (Mark Iosifovich) was both my parents’ thesis advisor. Not too soon after that, when already a...
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Quasi-polynomial time approximation schemes for assortment optimization under Mallows-based rankings
In spite of its widespread applicability in learning theory, probability, combinatorics, and in various other fields, the Mallows model has only...
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Placing a Global Mathematical Literature
The problem of comprehensive and timely mathematical bibliography was at the forefront of mathematicians’ international and global ambitions in the...
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The Algebra Project, Feature Talk, and the History of Mathematics
Robert P. Moses (1935–2021) was an activist and educator who taught mathematics and studied philosophy. Bob Moses is renowned for his efforts to...
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An ontology network for Diabetes Mellitus in Mexico
BackgroundMedical experts in the domain of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) acquire specific knowledge from diabetic patients through monitoring and...
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Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson: A Collaboration on the Mathematical Theory of Epidemics
In 1916 Ronald Ross published the first of three papers entitled ‘An Application of the Theory of Probabilities to the Study of a priori Pathometry’,...
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Mathematics, History of Mathematics and Poncelet: The Context of the Ecole Polytechnique
Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) is known as a geometer whose mathematical contributions were crucial for the development of what would later become...
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Mathematical Tools for Political Decision-Making
This chapter describes the political experience, as ministers or prime ministers with at least master’s degrees in mathematics, of Johanna Wanka...
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Whose Conjecture Did Van der Waerden Prove? Two Lives Between Two Wars: Issai Schur and Pierre Joseph Henry Baudet
Bartel L. van der Waerden credits “Baudet” [sic] with conjecturing the result about monochromatic arithmetic progressions. Decades later, Van der...
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