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Is “Follow the Customer” an Entry Strategy Aboard?
Our paper tries to verify the relation between international banks’ expansion and international automotive corporations’ overseas business in China. Pervasive phenomena indicate that foreign banks take following their clients as the initial strategy when they start overseas business in China’s market. As many previous literatures analyzed, in the beginning stage in a new foreign market, multinational banks adopted this passive strategy and intended to follow some manufacturing enterprises from their home countries. The Chinese automotive sector is a touchstone of opening to foreign investors since the reform in China. It also gradually becomes an important tie for foreign banks’ overseas business. On one hand the multinational banks can afford capital support and financial service for their home country customers. On the other hand they can reduce the risk of expanding into a new market and prepare for grow up at an appropriate time. To achieve our purpose, we study the factors on foreign banks’ entry from host country level. We built the OLS regression on total foreign banks assets and added the total asset of the foreign automobile companies and total trade volume in auto sector as independent variables in order to research this relationship. From our analysis, the multinational banks are proved to follow their customers - foreign automobile companies to some extent
A Computationally Efficient Bi-level Coordination Framework for CAVs at Unsignalized Intersections
In this paper, we investigate cooperative vehicle coordination for connected
and automated vehicles (CAVs) at unsignalized intersections. To support high
traffic throughput while reducing computational complexity, we present a novel
collision region model and decompose the optimal coordination problem into two
sub-problems: \textit{centralized} priority scheduling and \textit{distributed}
trajectory planning. Then, we propose a bi-level coordination framework which
includes: (i) a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based high-level priority
scheduler aims to find high-quality passing orders to maximize traffic
throughput, and (ii) a priority-based low-level trajectory planner that
generates optimal collision-free control inputs. Simulation results demonstrate
that our bi-level strategy achieves near-optimal coordination performance,
comparable to state-of-the-art centralized strategies, and significantly
outperform the traffic signal control systems in terms of traffic throughput.
Moreover, our approach exhibits good scalability, with computational complexity
scaling linearly with the number of vehicles. Video demonstrations can be found
online at \url{https://youtu.be/WYAKFMNnQfs}
Enhancing JPEG Steganography using Iterative Adversarial Examples
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based methods have significantly improved
the performance of image steganalysis compared with conventional ones based on
hand-crafted features. However, many existing literatures on computer vision
have pointed out that those effective CNN-based methods can be easily fooled by
adversarial examples. In this paper, we propose a novel steganography framework
based on adversarial example in an iterative manner. The proposed framework
first starts from an existing embedding cost, such as J-UNIWARD in this work,
and then updates the cost iteratively based on adversarial examples derived
from a series of steganalytic networks until achieving satisfactory results. We
carefully analyze two important factors that would affect the security
performance of the proposed framework, i.e. the percentage of selected
gradients with larger amplitude and the adversarial intensity to modify
embedding cost. The experimental results evaluated on three modern steganalytic
models, including GFR, SCA-GFR and SRNet, show that the proposed framework is
very promising to enhance the security performances of JPEG steganography
Exploring the experience of novelty when viewing creative adverts: An ERP study.
The electrophysiological correlates of experiencing novelty in creative advertising were studied in 28 healthy subjects using event-related potentials. Participants viewed images that were difficult to interpret until a description was presented providing either a creative description (CD) featuring an unexpected description of the image based on the original advertisement, or a normal description (ND), which was a literal description of the image (and served as a baseline condition). Participants evaluated the level of creativity of the description. The results showed that the N2 amplitude was higher for CDs than for NDs across middle and right scalp regions between 240 and 270 ms, most likely reflecting conflict detection. Moreover, CDs demonstrated greater N400 than NDs in a time window between 380 and 500 ms, it is argued that this reflects semantic integration. The present study investigates the electrophysiological correlates of experiencing novelty in advertising with ecologically valid stimuli. This substantially extends the findings of earlier laboratory studies with more artificial stimuli.N/
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