Original IP Research Articles

Analyzing the Future of Pixar Based on the Current Status

Pixar Animation Studios is currently facing a challenging situation due to the intense competition in the animated film market. As a result, the study's purpose is to investigate how Pixar should develop in the future to get out of this predicament. To solve the research question, this article will discuss Pixar's achievements in animated films as a case study. The first reason for the problem is technological innovation. The suggestion is to develop the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) in animated film production and formats. The second reason for the problem is connected innovation; the suggestion is insisting on original IP and extending the industry chain. The third reason for the problem is not proactively catering to market needs; the suggestion is meeting diversified needs and strengthening international outreach cooperation. The value of this paper is to provide some reference suggestions for the development of animated films and fill the research gap in the future development of Pixar.

Exploring the Development of Soft Science Fiction Films in the Chinese Film Market: Taking Dune 2 as an Example

Following the cessation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese film industry has experienced a resurgence, leading to fresh prospects for the Chinese science fiction film market. On March 8, 2024, the Chinese mainland will host the release of Dune 2, which has garnered significant popularity in the Chinese science fiction cinema market. The goal of this study was to investigate whether the popularity of the Dune series of movies in the Chinese film market persists. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential influence of the Dune series of movies on the Chinese science fiction film industry. This article provided an in-depth examination of the film "Dune 2" as a specific example. This analysis utilized the distinctive attributes of the "Dune 2" film series, as well as the commercial performance and value demonstrated in the Chinese film market. It combined fundamental business theory and cinematic art knowledge to conduct a thorough examination and observation. The study yields three key outcomes: the successful adaptation of movies based on popular intellectual properties, achieved by appropriately innovating the original IP; the advancement in filming technology, which propels the growth of science fiction movies by establishing a dedicated technology park for the film industry; the influence of film music on the coherence of movie narratives, through the creation of music that aligns with the unique style of each film. This study aimed to investigate the attributes of the Chinese science fiction film market and offers recommendations for the advancement of Chinese science fiction films.

The Operation Logic of Constructing China's National Original IP to Empower the Peripheral Design of Game Brands: Based on the Case Investigation of Mihoyo

Game original IP, especially China's national original IP, has become a new momentum in the game industry, and with the attention of game companies to IP cultivation, the IP derivatives market has also developed accordingly. The construction of game brand's national original IP and the application of construction results are two important stages to realize the design of China's national original IP-empowered brand peripheral products, and the summary and analysis of a set of thinking models will intuitively show the operational logic of empowerment, which will help the original innovative dissemination of Chinese traditional culture through interactive media works such as games, and guide the smooth promotion of brand IP marketing. This paper uses a case study of Genshin Impact IP under Mihoyo brand, summarizes the thinking model according to the topic of this paper by progressively studying the IP construction logic and the application mode of IP empowerment peripheral products after construction, sorts out the IP architecture and the general theoretical logic of each stage of the task, summarizes the core "carrier + concept" of national original IP construction, and discusses in detail the thinking factors and methodologies of national original IP construction in the main work IP stage, derivative IP stage, and peripheral product service stage.

JPM 2024: NanoSyrinx Wields Original Bacterial Syringe IP for Protein Delivery

JPM 2024: NanoSyrinx Wields Original Bacterial Syringe IP for Protein Delivery

The Development Status of IP Culture in China's Cultural and Creative Industries

This article analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of this emerging cultural and creative industry by studying the development of China's cultural IP industry, to make recommendations for the development of China's cultural IP industry in the future. At present, the hot concept of IP operation emphasizes the mining, incubation, and sustainable creation of IP value. IP has gradually become the core of the pan-entertainment ecosystem. IP attracts the first fans through high-quality original content, and extends to other areas through recreation, achieving exponential growth in the number of fans and horizontal expansion of the fan base. In this process, the influence of original IP diverges, promotes the interaction and integration between different industries, constitutes a good industrial ecology, and releases and monetizes the value of IP. The article analyzes the development of China's IP industry in detail in the past two years, through the redefinition, policy combing, analysis of industrial structure, development trends, and cross-industry integration. At the same time, this article also discusses the advantages of China's IP industry development, current problems, and solutions, which found the direction suitable for the future development of China's cultural IP industry.

A Blockchain Framework for Preserving Music Intellectual Property Rights

The continuous strengthening of intellectual property protection has made the analysis of music intellectual property framework a research hotspot, and also promoted the integration of blockchain and intellectual property. The original IP protection framework could not solve the problem of music IP protection, and IP protection was ineffective. Therefore, this paper proposes a framework based on blockchain technology to analyze the protection of music intellectual property rights. Firstly, the blockchain server is used to store the music intellectual property rights, and the continuity judgment is made according to the characteristics of the intellectual property data to form the block data of the time series. Then, according to the intellectual property results stored in each server, the blockchain framework with different protection levels is compared with the intellectual property protection requirements. After simulation test and analysis, the framework based on blockchain technology can improve the security of music intellectual property data, reduce the tampering rate of property rights data, remove the centralization of intellectual property rights, and simplify the intellectual property protection process.

Artemis: A Latency-Oriented Naming and Routing System

Today, Internet service deployment is typically implemented with server replication at multiple locations. Domain name system (DNS), which translates human-readable domain names into network-routable IP addresses, is typically used for distributing users to different server replicas. However, DNS relies on several network-based queries and the queries delay the connection setup process between the client and the server replica. In this article, we propose Artemis, a practical low-latency naming and routing system that supports optimal server (replica) selection based on user-defined policies and provides lower query latencies than DNS. Artemis uses a DNS-like domain name-IP mapping for replica selection and achieves low query latency by combining the name resolution process with the transport layer handshake process. In Artemis, all server replicas at different locations share the same anycast IP address, called Service Address. Clients use the Service Address to establish a transport layer connection with the server. The client's initial handshake packet is routed over an overlay network to reach the optimal server. Then the server migrates the transport layer connection to its original unicast IP address after finishing the handshake process. After that, service discovery is completed, and the client communicates with the server directly via IP addresses. To validate the effectiveness of Artemis, we evaluate its performance via both real trace-driven simulation and real-world deployment. The result shows that Artemis can handle a large number of connections and reduce the connection setup latency compared with state-of-the-art solutions. More specifically, our deployment across 11 Google data centers shows that Artemis reduces the connection setup latency by 39.4% compared with DNS.

Effect of injection pressure adjustment towards performance, emission and combustion analysis of optimal nahar methyl ester diesel blend powered agricultural diesel engine

Biodiesel diesel blend as a sustainable renewable source of energy for diesel engine applications have already been established. The present work elucidates the effect of injection pressure variation on the use of optimal Nahar methyl ester diesel blend NME40 in a direct injection diesel engine as part of the energy efficiency improvement study. This study also incorporates the cost analysis and the SWOT analysis of Nahar methyl ester to attract the attention of policy makers and think-tanks for practical implementation. Optimal CR18 and IT23 obtained from the previous study have been fixed to characterize the effect of injection pressure adjustment (170–290 bar with gap of 20 bar, original IP 210 bar). IP250 bar outshines amongst all IPs, which contributes to the increase of BTE (32.51% at full load for NME40). At full load and 250 bar IP, the specific CO and HC emission are observed to be 1.79 g/kWh and 0.016 g/kWh respectively. Peak cylinder pressure is seen to be highest for 250 bar IP, whereas the ignition delay is lowest 6.41° CA for 250 bar IP. Cost analysis and SWOT analysis favors the large scale use of Nahar methyl ester.

Bypassing Cloudflare’s reverse proxy: a case study / Contornando o proxy reverso do Cloudflare: um estudo de caso

Reverse proxy is a functionality provided by companies such as Cloudflare and its designed to protect virtual assets on the internet by acting as a middleman between end users and an origin server. While working on a law enforcement case, we performed OSINT research, designed and deployed a tool that allowed us to reach an original website's IP address associated with criminal activity, thus achieving partial bypass of Cloudflare's reverse proxy protection.

Evaluation Test and Improvement of Load Balancing Algorithms of Nginx

Today most people can’t live without electronic devices. And more and more new devices are coming to the market every day. Apps running on these devices often connect to one or several web-based server side applications, which in turn put a lot of load and management pressure on the servers and clusters serving these web applications. Technologies such as Nginx and Keepalived were invented to address the load issues faced by these high concurrency applications. This paper tested a server cluster environment based on Nginx and Keepalived, evaluated the performance of Nginx based algorithms such as WRR, IP_HASH and LEAST_CONN, and designed an optimized version of IP_HASH (named as NEW_HASH). Compared to the original IP_HASH, the NEW_HASH reduces the probability of hash collisions and improves the performance of searching back-end nodes. The test showed NEW_HASH outperforms the original method of IP_HASH, with reduced response time, lower failure rates and increased throughput. Overall, the server cluster performed better under the high load pressure using NEW_HASH.

Energy-Efficient Task Scheduling in Design of Multithread Time Predictable Real-Time Systems

The paper presents balanced heuristic techniques of static tasks scheduling in multi-core real-time system architecture. The main objective was to minimize the energy consumed by the system without causing deadlines to be missed. The authors proposed a few scheduling scenarios based on modifications of different parameters of the system and defined appropriate algorithms. The methodology was verified and tested on the original hardware platform of the system developed by the authors. The system consists of the reconfigurable set of cores based on an interleaved pipeline processing scheme. The entire system was modeled as original IP at the RTL level in VERILOG and implemented on a Virtex7 FPGA platform. The tasks were executed as a set of programs based on Malardalen WCET benchmarks; commonly used by the PRET community for validation time predictable systems and worst-case analyses. Many series of experiments were carried out and the results validated the approach and showed that it is possible to radically reduce the energy consumed by the system while retaining timing conditions (i.e., deadlines). The authors gathered and discussed results and formulated a set of recommendations for the safety real-time system’s design flowchart aimed to minimize the energy consumed by the system.

A Method for Original IP Detection of VPN Accessor

A Method for Original IP Detection of VPN Accessor

COREDIV numerical simulation of high neutron rate JET-ILW DD pulses in view of extension to JET-ILW DT experiments

Two high performance JET-ILW pulses, pertaining to the 2016 experimental campaign, have been numerically simulated with the self-consistent code COREDIV with the aim of predicting the ELM-averaged power load to the target when extrapolated to DT plasmas. The input power of about 33 MW as well as the total radiated power and the average density are similar in the two pulses, but for one of them the density is provided by combined low gas puff and pellet injection, characterized by low SOL density, for the other one by gas fuelling only, at higher SOL density. Considering the magnetic configuration of theses pulses and the presence of a significant amount of Ni (not included in the version of the code used for these simulations), a number of assumptions are made in order to reproduce numerically the main core and SOL experimental data. The extrapolation to DT plasmas at the original input power of 33 MW, and taking into account only the thermal component of the alpha-power, does not show any significant difference regarding the power to the target with respect to the DD case. In contrast, the simulations at auxiliary power 40 MW, both at the original Ip = 3 MA and at Ip = 4 MA, show that the power to the target for both pulses is possibly too high to be sustained for about 5 s by strike-point sweeping alone without any control by Ne seeding. Even though the target power load may decrease to about 13–15 MW with substantial Ne seeding for both pulses, as from numerical predictions, there are indications suggesting that the control of the power load may be more critical for the pulse with pellet injection, due to the reduced SOL radiation.

Application of the wavelet transform to sediment grain sizes analysis with an impact plate for bedload monitoring in sediment bypass tunnels

An impact plate (IP) is a bedload transport monitoring device developed for a part of the sediment bypass tunnels management. In the measurement, the impact produced by bedload is recorded as the number of impulses (Ip) which is widely used in Japan. Ip, however, has several shortcomings attributed to the insufficient raw signal denoising. In this study, the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), an advanced signal processing technique especially for noisy, non-periodical, and transient signals, was introduced to devise an improved Ip count system solving the problems in the original signal denoising process. The presented results revealed that the DWT is useful for water noise reduction, signal overlap reduction, and mitigating Ip saturation at grain sizes Ds = 50 and 100 mm compared to the original Ip counting system.

DO MATURE INNOVATION PLATFORMS MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT? A META-ANALYSIS OF CASE STUDIES

SUMMARYInnovation Platforms (IPs) have become a popular vehicle in agricultural research for development (AR4D). The IP promise is that integrating scientific and local knowledge results in innovations that can have impact at scale. Many studies have uncovered how IPs work in various countries, value chains and themes. The conclusion is clear: IPs generate enthusiasm and can bring together stakeholders to effectively address specific problems and achieve ‘local’ impact. However, few studies focus on ‘mature’ IPs and whether or not these achieve impact at a ‘higher’ scale: address systems trade-offs to guide decision making, focus on integration of multiple commodities, reach a large number of beneficiaries and learn from their failures. This study evaluates the impact of mature IPs in AR4D by analysing the success factors of eight case studies across three continents. Although we found pockets of IP success and impact, these were rarely achieved at scale. We therefore critically question the use of IPs as a technology dissemination and scaling mechanism in AR4D programs that aim to benefit the livelihoods of many farmers in developing countries. Nevertheless, we do find that IPs can fulfil an important role in AR4D. If the IP processes are truly demand-driven, participatory and based on collective investment and action, they have the ability to bring together committed stakeholders, and result in innovations that are technically sound, locally adapted, economically feasible for farmers, and socially, culturally and politically acceptable. Several of our cases show that if these IPs are firmly embedded in other public and private extension mechanisms and networks, they can allow the technologies or other types of innovations to scale out beyond the original IP scope, geographical focus or target audience. We see a need for more rigorous, accurate and continuous measurement of IP performance which can contribute to adaptive management of IPs, better understanding of ‘what works’ in terms of process design and facilitation, as well as to cost-benefit analysis of IPs as compared to other approaches that aim to contribute to agricultural development.

Multi-Access Routing Switching Scheme for Smart Multimedia Transmission over Wireless Integrated Networks

Current mobile networking technology is continuously progressing to support the demand of today’s generation of Internet users who connect about with sophisticated mobile computers and digital wireless devices. Routing protocols needs to be modified in host mobility in order that packets will be sent and delivered in its right destination. In Mobile Internet protocol, the mobile node will be able to send and receive packet from its original Home IP address to its current location regardless of the location upon connection with Internet. Through this kind of connection, packet loss is inevitable during the handover process. To solve this, numerous studies on the handover process was studied in order to minimize packet loss during the handover process. In this paper, we suggest context aware based smart distributed packet (SDP) transmission mechanism using multi-access routing switching mechanism in wireless integrated networks. We will explain and discuss the scheme that supports a distributed fast handover effectively in mobile management protocol based context-awareness. New signaling messages, smart distributed packet update messages, advanced TFRC message and reverse PBUs, are defined and utilized to hasten the handover procedure.

Information-centric networking with built-in network coding to achieve multisource transmission at network-layer

As one of the most promising future Internet, Information-Centric Networking (ICN) is attracting more attention. However, the previous works which have achieved either single-source transmission or low-efficiency multisource transmission did not fully exploit the potential of underlying its in-network caching opportunities. We propose Information-Centric Networking with Built-in Network Coding (ICN-NC) where in-network caching can be collaborated with network coding to achieve multisource transmission at network-layer. In ICN-NC, due to network coding, partitioned caching and parallel transmission with multiple data sources can be achieved. Moreover, four schemes are proposed to address the key challenges of ICN-NC: Firstly, a novel signature scheme ensures that signature scheme can be compatible with network coding. Secondly, a communication scheme based on piggyback technology ensures that the number of returned Coded Message (CM) is exactly matched with the desired number. Thirdly, we propose a forwarding plane separated from routing plane to observe the network state, such as network failure, link transmission performance and distribution of CM, where a strategy of forwarding Interest ensures that the probability of returned CM being linearly dependent is low. Fourthly, an acknowledgement mechanism ensures that the choice of Interest exploration direction is reasonable and adaptive. Finally, experiment results shows that ICN-NC can improve transmission efficiency, caching efficiency and robustness compared to original ICN and IP.

A Comprehensive Tutorial for Mobility Management in Data Networks

The convergence towards the IP protocol has made Internet access available almost everywhere; this has leveraged new expectations about continuous and seamless communication, especially when portable devices are involved. Mobility management is a key issue in this context. The original IP specification does not account for mobility. Nevertheless, since the beginning of the Internet there has been a continuous interest in managing nomadic hosts; this has brought to a large number of approaches and protocols that have faced the problem from different perspectives. This paper reviews different approaches to mobility management that have arisen during the years. It is intended to serve as a tutorial for this topic, which draws out the lesson learned until now and depicts a comprehensive picture to foster new ideas and solutions while avoiding duplication of past work.

ELEON3LP – Superscalar and low-power enhancements of single issue general purpose processor model

Low power consumption and high-performance are the most important factors in modern embedded System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Increasing computation complexity and incessant growth of clock frequency reveals the necessity for dynamic and smart utilization of the available hardware resources. The paper presents the modified LEON3 processor IP core as an exemplary process of enhancing single issue general purpose processor with superscalar abilities and low-power features. The results of this work can be applied to many existing general purpose processor models to achieve low-power and high-performance systems suitable for modern embedded applications. In comparison with the original LEON3 IP core, the new one may execute up to two instructions per cycle and dynamically manage incorporated power domains. The Enhanced LEON3 IP core was synthesized for 500MHz using UMC 90nm CMOS technology. Performed gate level VCD-based (Value Change Dump) power estimation shows that combining superscalar and low-power techniques allows performing faster program execution with less energy consumption than the original design.

Elective course planning

Efficient planning increasingly becomes an indispensable tool for management of both companies and public organizations. This is also the case for high school management in Denmark, because the growing individual freedom of the students to choose courses makes planning much more complex. Due to reforms, elective courses are today an important part of the curriculum, and elective courses are a good way to make high school education more attractive for the students. In this article, the problem of planning the elective courses is modeled using integer programming and three different solution approaches are suggested, including a Branch-and-Price framework using partial Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition. Explicit Constraint Branching is used to enhance the solution process, both on the original IP model and in the Branch-and-Price algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, no exact algorithm for the Elective Course Planning Problem has been described in the literature before. The proposed algorithms are tested on data sets from 98 of the 150 high schools in Denmark. The tests show that for the majority of the problems, the optimal solution can be obtained within the one hour time bound. Furthermore the suggested algorithms achieve better results than the currently applied meta-heuristic.