279 research outputs found
Online-offline activities and game-playing behaviors of avatars in a massive multiplayer online role-playing game
Massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) are very popular in
China, which provides a potential platform for scientific research. We study
the online-offline activities of avatars in an MMORPG to understand their
game-playing behavior. The statistical analysis unveils that the active avatars
can be classified into three types. The avatars of the first type are owned by
game cheaters who go online and offline in preset time intervals with the
online duration distributions dominated by pulses. The second type of avatars
is characterized by a Weibull distribution in the online durations, which is
confirmed by statistical tests. The distributions of online durations of the
remaining individual avatars differ from the above two types and cannot be
described by a simple form. These findings have potential applications in the
game industry.Comment: 6 EPL pages including 10 eps figure
Study on the Impact of Private Enterprises\u27 Participation in the Mixed Reform of State-owned Enterprises on the Value Preservation and Appreciation of State-owned Assets
State-owned listed companies in the commercial category in Shanghai and Shenzhen A-shares from 2013 to 2020 were selected as the research sample. Data related to the shareholding and delegated behavior of private shareholders among the top ten shareholders are utilized. Using a fixed-effects model, we empirically analyze the impact of private companies\u27 participation in the mixed reform of state-owned enterprises on the value preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets at the equity level and the management right level. Explore the moderating effects of internal control and the level of market-oriented development on the above relationships. The study shows that the participation of private enterprises in the mixed reform of SOEs can effectively contribute to the value preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets, both at the equity level and at the management level. Meanwhile, the level of internal control of SOEs has a significant positive moderating effect on the relationship between the participation of private firms in SOEs\u27 mixed reform and the value-added of SOEs\u27 assets; The participation of private firms can effectively compensate for the impact of insufficient market development on the value-added of SOEs\u27 assets
Division of labor, skill complementarity, and heterophily in socioeconomic networks
Constituents of complex systems interact with each other and self-organize to
form complex networks. Empirical results show that the link formation process
of many real networks follows either the global principle of popularity or the
local principle of similarity or a tradeoff between the two. In particular, it
has been shown that in social networks individuals exhibit significant
homophily when choosing their collaborators. We demonstrate, however, that in
populations in which there is a division of labor, skill complementarity is an
important factor in the formation of socioeconomic networks and an individual's
choice of collaborators is strongly affected by heterophily. We analyze 124
evolving virtual worlds of a popular "massively multiplayer online role-playing
game" (MMORPG) in which people belong to three different professions and are
allowed to work and interact with each other in a somewhat realistic manner. We
find evidence of heterophily in the formation of collaboration networks, where
people prefer to forge social ties with people who have professions different
from their own. We then construct an economic model to quantify the heterophily
by assuming that individuals in socioeconomic systems choose collaborators that
are of maximum utility. The results of model calibration confirm the presence
of heterophily. Both empirical analysis and model calibration show that the
heterophilous feature is persistent along the evolution of virtual worlds. We
also find that the degree of complementarity in virtual societies is positively
correlated with their economic output. Our work sheds new light on the
scientific research utility of virtual worlds for studying human behaviors in
complex socioeconomic systems.Comment: 14 Latex pages + 3 figure
The Fumigating Activity of Litsea cubeba oil and Citral on Solenopsis invicta
This paper studied the fumigating activity of Litsea cubeba oil and citral on Solenopsis invicta, identified and analyzed the chemical constituents and volatile components of L. cubeba oil via solid-phase microextraction which were then identified via gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results showed that citral and (z)-3,7-dimethylocta-2,6-diena were the main components of L. cubeba oil, as well as its volatile compounds. According to the experimental results, L. cubeba oil and citral had good fumigating activity on workers, and also had significant inhibition on the walking ability and climbing ability of workers. At the same time, the effects of the two agentia on the fumigating activity and behavioral inhibition of microergate were stronger than those of macroergate. After treating with L. cubeba oil and citral for 24 hours, the walking rate and grasping rate of microergate were both 0 %. The results showed that L. cubeba oil and citral had good control effect on S. invicta
Longitudinal optical conductivities in tilted Dirac bands
We report a unified theory based on linear response, for analyzing the
longitudinal optical conductivity (LOC) of materials with tilted Dirac cones.
Depending on the tilt parameter , the Dirac electrons have four phases,
untilted, type-I, type-II, and type-III; the Dirac dispersion can be isotropic
or anisotropic; the spatial dimension of the material can be one-, two-, or
three-dimensions. The interband LOCs and intraband LOCs in dimension (with
) are found to scale as to and
, respectively, where is the
frequency and the chemical potential. The interband LOCs always vanish in
one dimension due to lacking of extra spatial dimension. The angular dependence
of LOCs is found to characterize the band tilting, and the constant asymptotic
background values of LOC reflect features of the Dirac bands. The LOCs in the
anisotropic tilted Dirac cone can be connected to its isotropic counterpart by
a ratio that consists of Fermi velocities. The findings are valid for a great
many Dirac materials in the spatial dimensions of physical interests.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
catena-Poly[[[tetraaquacobalt(II)]-μ-4,4′-bipyridine-κ2 N:N′] 2-[4-(2-carboxylatoethyl)phenoxy]acetate]
In the title complex, {[Co(C10H8N2)(H2O)4](C11H10O5)}n, the unique CoII ion lies on an inversion center and is coordinated by two N atoms from two 4,4′-bipyridine ligands and four O atoms from four water molecules in a slightly distorted octahedral coordination geometry. The 4,4′-bipyridine ligands bridge CoII ions into a one-dimensional chain structure. In the crystal structure, intermolecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds link cations and anions into a three-dimensional network. The dianions are completely disordered about an inversion center
Catalyst size dependent growth of Pd-catalyzed one-dimensional InAs nanostructures
In this study, Pd was used as catalyst to grow one-dimensional InAs nanostructures on GaAs (111)(B) substrates in order to explore the growth mechanism and the effect of non-gold catalysts in growing epitaxial III-V nanostructures. With detailed morphological, structural, and chemical characterizations using electron microscopy, coupled with analysis of the Pd-In binary phase diagram, it was found that size of Pd nanoparticles plays a key role in determining the growth mechanism of one-dimensional InAs nanostructures. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC
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