Producers submit committed supply functions to a procurement auction, e.g. an electricity auction, before the uncertain demand has been realized. In the Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE), every firm chooses the bid maximizing his expected profit given the bids of the competitors. In case of asymmetric producers with general cost functions, previous work has shown that it is very difficult to fi...

We present a new garbled circuit construction for two-party secure function evaluation (SFE). In our one-round protocol, XOR gates are evaluated “for free”, which results in the corresponding improvement over the best garbled circuit implementations (e.g. Fairplay [19]). We build permutation networks [26] and Universal Circuits (UC) [25] almost exclusively of XOR gates; this results in a factor...

In this paper we consider the forward/futures contracts and Asian-type call options for power delivery as important components of the bidding strategies of the players’ profits on the electricity market. We show how these derivatives can affect their profit. We use linear asymmetric supply function equilibrium (SFE) and Cournot models to develop firms’ optimal bidding strategies by including fo...

The chemical speciation of iron (Fe) in oceans is influenced by ambient pH, dissolved oxygen, and the concentrations strengths binding sites organic matter (DOM). Here, we derived new nonideal competitive adsorption (NICA) constants for Fe(III) to marine DOM via pH-Fe titrations. We used calculate derive apparent solubility (SFe(III)app) water column across Peruvian shelf slope region. define S...

Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) from natural products has been widely studied as an alternative to the use of traditional techniques in the production of bioactive compounds. It has been demonstrated that this process is particularly useful when treating thermolabile compounds and solvent pollution has to be avoided. SFE can be applied to systems of different scales, from analytical scale,...

The morphometric approach (MA) is a powerful tool for calculating a solvation free energy (SFE) and related quantities of solvation thermodynamics of complex molecules. Here, we extend it to a solvent consisting of m components. In the integral equation theories, the SFE is expressed as the sum of m terms each of which comprises solute-component j correlation functions (j = 1,..., m). The MA is...

Rising prices in the German wholesale electricity market have spurred discussions about the potentials and the abuse of market power. Particularly since the introduction of emission certificates, electricity prices increased continuously closely related to rising certificate prices. The oligopolistic structure of the German market with four major players owning 90% of the capacities (Bundeskart...

Geneticists have argued that the linear decay in within-population genetic diversity with increasing geographic distance from East Africa is best explained by a phylogenetic process of repeated founder effects, growth, and isolation. However, this serial founder effect (SFE) process has not yet been adequately vetted against other evolutionary processes that may also affect geospatial patterns ...

A supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) procedure for the analysis of temazepam from whole blood was developed. Quantitative recoveries were obtained by high-performance liquid chromatography using prazepam as an internal standard and carefully monitoring the extraction temperature and pressure. The results were found to compare well with those obtained by solid-phase extraction techniques, but ...

Radar target recognition (RTR), as a key technique of intelligent radar systems, has been widely investigated. Accurate RTR at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) still remains an open challenge. Considering that most existing methods are based on single or the homogeneous network, we extend to heterogeneous network improve robustness RTR, which uses cross Section (RCS) signals SNRs by further ex...