Established gambling operators have argued that person-to-person wagering on Internet ‘betting exchanges’ represents unfair competition. In this paper we suggest that, in fact, betting exchanges have brought about significant efficiency gains by lowering transaction costs for consumers. We test this hypothesis using matched data on UK horse racing from betting exchanges and from traditional bet...

Despite the fact that rodents are considered to be the infectious source of hantavirus for humans, another route of transmission was demonstrated. Andes virus (ANDV) has been responsible for most of the cases recorded in Argentina. Person-to-person transmission of ANDV Sout lineage was described during an outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in southwest Argentina. In this study, we analyz...

Gaze is recognized as one of the most important cues for the analysis of the cognitive behaviors of a person such as the attention displayed towards objects or people, their interactions, functionality and causality patterns. In this short paper, we present our investigations towards the development of 3D gaze sensing solutions from consumer RGB-D sensors, including their use for the inference ...

Person search targets to the probe person from unconstrainted scene images, which can be treated as combination of detection and matching. However, existing methods based on Detection-Matching framework ignore objectness repulsion (OR) are both beneficial reduce effect distractor images. In this paper, we propose an OR similarity by jointly considering information. Besides traditional visual te...

It has often been suggested that people's ordinary capacities for understanding the world make use of much the same methods one might find in a formal scientific investigation. A series of recent experimental results offer a challenge to this widely-held view, suggesting that people's moral judgments can actually influence the intuitions they hold both in folk psychology and in causal cognition...

In the current global context, with prominent multilateralism and multipolarity trends, China is seeing a rise in comprehensive strength influence on international stage. has always upheld mutual respect, benefits, win-win situations for its diplomatic strategies launched Belt Road Initiative to actively unite neighboring countries regions common development advancement. Person-to-person diplom...