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Assessing non-detrimental trade for a CITES Appendix II-listed plant species: the status of wild and cultivated Galanthus woronowii in Georgia

Noel McGough, David Kikodze, Richard Wilford, Lucy Garrett, Grigol Deisadze, Natalie Jaworska, Matthew Smith

Oryx, The International Journal of Conservation | February 2014

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“Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction”

February 13, 2014 | Charles Adler

From teleportation and space elevators to alien contact and interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brilliant and innovative ideas. Yet how plausible are these ideas—for instance, could Mr. Weasley’s…

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zootracer

Use consumer video equipment to trace animal movement. Zootracer is software developed at Microsoft Research, capable of accurately tracking multiple, unmarked, interacting individuals in arbitrary video footage. As the software is independent of recording devices,…

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The Impossibility of Obfuscation with Auxiliary Input or a Universal Simulator

Nir Bitansky, Ran Canetti, Henry Cohn, Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Tauman Kalai, Omer Paneth, Alon Rosen

Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO) | February 2014

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Negative Probability

Andreas Blass, Yuri Gurevich

Bulletin of European Assoc. for Theor. Computer Science | February 2014

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Submodularity Helps in Nash and Nonsymmetric Bargaining Games

Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Gagan Goel, Vijay V. Vazirani, Lei Wang, Changyuan Yu

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics | January 2014, Vol 28(1): pp. 99-115

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Clearing Markets via Bundles

Michal Feldman, Brendan Lucier

Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory 2014 | January 2014

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Welfare Maximization and Truthfulness in Mechanism Design with Ordinal Preferences

Deeparnab Chakrabarty, Chaitanya Swamy

ITCS ’14 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Innovations in theoretical computer science | January 2014

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Stochastic Domination and Comb Percolation

Alexander E. Holroyd, James B. Martin

Electronic Journal of Probability | January 2014, Vol 19

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Maximizing Social Influence in Nearly Optimal Time

Christian Borgs, Michael Brautbar, Jennifer Chayes, Brendan Lucier

Proceedings of the 25nd Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithm (SODA) | January 2014