Winning Strategy Research Articles

Maqasid Shariah perspective on Indonesia's winning strategy of paper dumping lawsuit on WTO

In the last eight years, Indonesia has extensive forests as paper raw materials and has experienced three accusations of paper dumping practices in foreign trade or exports. The allegation of dumping practices addressed to Indonesia was submitted to the WTO as the institution that oversees all trade issues between countries in the form of filing a case or trade lawsuit. Three lawsuits from Pakistan, South Korea, and Australia over allegations of paper dumping practices at the WTO have been won by Indonesia. From an Islamic law perspective, dumping itself is prohibited if it aims to harm other countries. This article aims to provide an overview of Indonesia's paper dumping practice allegations from the perspective of Islamic law, with an explanatory and narrative approach.

Maqasid Shariah perspective on Indonesia's winning strategy of paper dumping lawsuit on WTO

In the last eight years, Indonesia has extensive forests as paper raw materials and has experienced three accusations of paper dumping practices in foreign trade or exports. The allegation of dumping practices addressed to Indonesia was submitted to the WTO as the institution that oversees all trade issues between countries in the form of filing a case or trade lawsuit. Three lawsuits from Pakistan, South Korea, and Australia over allegations of paper dumping practices at the WTO have been won by Indonesia. From an Islamic law perspective, dumping itself is prohibited if it aims to harm other countries. This article aims to provide an overview of Indonesia's paper dumping practice allegations from the perspective of Islamic law, with an explanatory and narrative approach.

Prepare a crisis communications response plan for handling complex legal, reputational issues

Behind every legal issue facing your student affairs department are communications issues that need to be addressed. The way you choose to address these issues will influence how they're perceived by others, whether such issues might become entangled in the legal process, and the potential reputational damage to your department and institution. That's according to James F. Haggerty, J.D., Crisis Communications Consultant and President and CEO of PRCG/Haggerty LLC, a strategic communications firm, and the author of Chief Crisis Officer: Structure and Leadership for Effective Communications Response and In the Court of Public Opinion: Winning Strategies for Litigation Communications. He spoke at Stetson University's National Conference on Law and Higher Education.

Practical Applications of Is Tactical Allocation a Winning Strategy?

In <b><i>Is Tactical Allocation a Winning Strategy?</i></b>, from the Fall 2021 issue of <b><i>The Journal of Index Investing</i></b>, authors <b>Srinidhi Kanuri</b> (of the <b>University of Southern Mississippi</b>), <b>James Malm</b> (of the <b>College of Charleston</b>), and <b>D.K. Malhotra</b> (of <b>Thomas Jefferson University</b>) analyzed the performance of actively managed mutual funds that pursue tactical asset allocation (TAA) strategies. In such a fund, the manager frequently reallocates investments among different asset classes, based on performance predictions. The goals are to improve diversification, protect against short-term losses, and achieve positive alpha. The authors measured the performance of all tactical allocation funds from January 1994 to October 2016 and compared it to the performance of benchmarks consisting of broad-market indexes and static mixed portfolios that did not reallocate. They found that tactical allocation funds underperformed all the benchmarks and showed negative alpha—meaning that fund managers failed to predict which assets would outperform the market. While TAA funds did have some short-term risk reduction benefits, the authors nevertheless concluded that investors are better off investing in passive funds that follow indexes.

Prepare a crisis communications response plan for handling complex legal, reputational issues

CLEARWATER, FLORIDA — Behind every legal issue facing your athletics department are communications issues that need to be addressed, according to James F. Haggerty, J.D., Crisis Communications Consultant and President and CEO of PRCG/Haggerty LLC, a strategic communications firm, and the author of Chief Crisis Officer: Structure and Leadership for Effective Communications Response and In the Court of Public Opinion: Winning Strategies for Litigation Communications. He spoke at Stetson University's National Conference on Law and Higher Education.

Identifying and analysing game styles and factors influencing a team’s strategy in field hockey

ABSTRACT Characterising a team’s game style is a performance analysis approach that captures game events, and groups them into profiles using clustering techniques to identify the consistent (and winning) strategies a team implements. The aim of this study was to identify the game styles of international hockey teams. Video footage from the 2019 Pro League tournament (n = 74 female and n = 57 male matches) were analysed retrospectively using a notational analysis system in SportsCode™. Variables were arranged into six game style categories (established attack game actions, counter attack game actions, established attack success, counter attack success, set pieces, tempo) and two game style types identified per category using a k-means clustering algorithm. Decision trees were used to identify the influence of extrinsic and intrinsic match factors on the probability of a team playing a particular game style. Opposition and other reference team game style categories were shown to be more important in predicting a game style category than contextual factors. Examination of team profiles highlights how different strategies are successful for different teams such as high-intensity attack or absorbing pressure and counter attacking. This performance analysis process provides practical insights into the holistic performance of international hockey teams.

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A New Recipe for Friction-Reducer Suppliers: Polymer Plus Frac Water, Minus the Cost

The argument for making friction reducer on site is simple: only one truck is required to deliver dry polymer vs. three loads required for the same amount of liquid additive. For Downhole Chemical Solutions (DCS), reducing the number of trips and the amount of chemicals needed to create a stable liquid by mixing it as needed on site reduces the average cost of a gallon of friction reducer by around 30%, said Mark Van Domelen, vice president of technology for DCS. “The business is very cutthroat and competitive on the pricing of polyacrylamide. We can reduce the cost further on friction reducer,” using dry polymer, he said. Polyacrylamide is generally described as the key component in friction reducers. Suppliers also add some ingredients to create a stable liquid and others that are supposed to improve performance. When DCS delivers dry polymer to a well pad to mix it on-site, the only other ingredient is water provided by the customer. It has been a winning strategy change for the private company; it has grown rapidly, even during last year’s slump. DCS increased the number of mixing units from one to 16, and dry polymer sales have grown from 10% to 90%, Van Domelen said. One of the company’s customers is John Blevins, the chief operating officer for Houston-based Hibernia Resources III and an early adopter who was a lead author of a paper on making friction reducer on site while fracturing (SPE 204176). Blevin, who uses the words “friction reducer” and “polymer” interchangeably, is the rare C-level executive who likes to manage operations from a frac van at a company that normally completes one pad at a time. The polymer is polyacrylamide. When Blevin works with DCS on a well, he purchases it directly from one of the few chemical companies that will produce the polymer based on his specifications. The price on the DCS invoice will be a price per pound that covers the cost of the polymer and the service. At Hibernia, a small private-equity and employee-owned company, there is a powerful incentive to pay close attention to the details. “When we spend a nickel, that nickel is divided among us at some point in time. If we are efficiently frugal, we are going to be better off in the long run,” Blevins said. The paper, which was presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTeC), included a chart showing stage-by-stage costs, with the average cost for dry stages ranging from 27% to 31% lower than similar stages that were fractured using liquids. The simplicity of the mix is a plus for Blevins whose company is especially focused on how chemicals are likely to react downhole. “We did a 6-month study before we pumped anything in the ground to make sure we had the right combination” of fracturing additives, he said. “We do study nearly every well and every landing zone to ensure the chemicals used are compatible.”

Is Tactical Allocation a Winning Strategy?

In this study, we evaluated the absolute and risk-adjusted performance of tactical allocation mutual funds and benchmarked them to various benchmark indexes from January 1994 to October 2016. We found that tactical allocation mutual funds underperformed all benchmark indexes and had lower absolute and risk-adjusted performance during the period. Tactical allocation funds, however, had lower risk or standard deviation of returns compared to all asset categories with the exception of bonds. We also computed seven-factor alpha and found that tactical allocation funds had significantly negative alpha during the entire period, including during the 2008 financial crisis. Our findings indicate that tactical allocation funds did not outperform the benchmarks, and investors would have been better off with passively managed funds that followed benchmark indexes. <b>TOPICS:</b>Mutual funds/passive investing/indexing, performance measurement, risk management, financial crises and financial market history <b>Key Findings</b> ▪ Tactical allocation mutual funds underperformed all benchmark indexes and had lower absolute and risk-adjusted performance from January 1994 to October 2016. Investors would have been better off with passively managed funds that followed benchmark indexes. ▪ For most investors, sticking to a long-term strategic allocation is the best course of action. ▪ Although we found that tactical allocation funds do not deliver superior performance on a risk-adjusted basis, our results should be interpreted with caution. We did not examine variation in asset class sensitivity among funds, and whether this might be related to alpha generation.

Voronoi game on polygons

The competitive facility location problem is the problem of determining facility locations involving multiple players to optimize their various gains. The Voronoi game is a competitive facility location problem on a given arena played by two players, the server and the adversary. The players alternately take turns, one or more times, to place their facilities in the arena with a predetermined set of n clients, where both facilities and clients are denoted by points, to maximize some resource gain. The Voronoi game on a polygonP is a type of competitive facility location problem where n clients are located on the boundary of P. The server, Alice, and adversary, Bob, are respectively in the interior and the exterior of the polygon P at locations A and B, respectively. Additionally, the metrics for Alice and Bob are the internal and external geodesic distances for the polygon P, respectively. In this paper, we present some surprising results on the Voronoi games on polygons.We prove lower and upper bounds of ⌈n/3⌉ and n−1 respectively in the single-round game for the number of clients won by the server for n clients. Both bounds are tight. In the process, we show that in some convex polygons, the adversary wins no more than k clients in a k-round Voronoi game for any k≤n. Consequentially, the adversary Bob does not have a guaranteed good winning strategy even for the simpler case of convex polygons, i.e., there exist convex polygons such that no placement of B guarantees more than k clients in the k-round game. We also design O(nlog2⁡n+mlog⁡n) and O(n+m) time algorithms to compute the optimal locations for the server and the adversary respectively to maximize their client counts where the convex polygon has size m. Moreover, we present an O(nlog⁡n) time algorithm to compute the common intersection of a set of n ellipses. This is needed in our algorithm and may be of independent interest.Lastly, we present some results on the Voronoi games, where the arena is a convex polytope. The server and adversary are respectively in the interior and exterior of P, and the clients are on the polytope boundary.

A Deep Dive into Tesla's Business Strategic Options in Finding a Winning Strategy

A Deep Dive into Tesla's Business Strategic Options in Finding a Winning Strategy

Every planar graph is 1-defective [formula omitted]-paintable

Assume G is a graph, and k,d,m are natural numbers. The d-defective (k,m)-painting game on G is played by two players: Lister and Painter. Initially, each vertex has k tokens and is uncolored. In each round, Lister chooses a set M of vertices and removes one token from each chosen vertex. Painter colors a subset X of M which induces a subgraph G[X] of maximum degree at most d. A vertex v is fully colored if v has received m colors. Lister wins if at the end of some round, there is a vertex with no more tokens left and is not fully colored. Otherwise, at some round, all vertices are fully colored and Painter wins. We say G is d-defective (k,m)-paintable if Painter has a winning strategy in this game. We prove that every planar graph is 1-defective (9,2)-paintable. In addition, our winning strategy also implies that every planar graph is 1-defective (⌈92m⌉,m)-paintable for any positive m.

The Strategy of Joko Widodo’s Political Communication on 2019 Election Winning in Papua

The purpose of this research is to (1) analyze the influence of trans papua, noken and cultural approach to Jokowi's victory in Papua, both partially and simultaneously, (2) analyze Jokowi's winning strategy in Papua. The research method uses a quantitative approach with cross-sectional data as many as 29 districts in the 2019 general election. Data analysis uses multiple linear regression, with the Jokowi winning vote variable as the dependent variable, noken, trans papua voter characteristics and culture as an independent variable. The results showed that there was a positive and significant influence of the Noken system in Papua on Jokowi's victory. On the contrary, there is no statistically significant effect between trans Papua and cultural approaches to Jokowi's victory. But all three should be considered as Jokowi's winning strategy in Papua, because based on the F-test there is a significant relationship of the three variables. An effective priority strategy to increase voter votes for the Jokowi-ma'ruf pair is through a noken approach or utilizing traditional leaders.

The Strategy of Joko Widodo’s Political Communication on 2019 Election Winning in Papua

The purpose of this research is to (1) analyze the influence of trans papua, noken and cultural approach to Jokowi's victory in Papua, both partially and simultaneously, (2) analyze Jokowi's winning strategy in Papua. The research method uses a quantitative approach with cross-sectional data as many as 29 districts in the 2019 general election. Data analysis uses multiple linear regression, with the Jokowi winning vote variable as the dependent variable, noken, trans papua voter characteristics and culture as an independent variable. The results showed that there was a positive and significant influence of the Noken system in Papua on Jokowi's victory. On the contrary, there is no statistically significant effect between trans Papua and cultural approaches to Jokowi's victory. But all three should be considered as Jokowi's winning strategy in Papua, because based on the F-test there is a significant relationship of the three variables. An effective priority strategy to increase voter votes for the Jokowi-ma'ruf pair is through a noken approach or utilizing traditional leaders.

Imagination, Uncertainty and Business Strategies of Russian Companies in the Field of Medical Devices

High-tech innovation is often understood as creating new worlds and trajectories of development and generating uncertainty. On the basis of 15 interviews with the heads of Russian medical technology companies, the paper presents the different types of uncertainties faced by med-tech entrepreneurs. Is the lack of exact knowledge about the results of the development and implementation of new technologies (a classic type of uncertainty in the innovation sector) perceived by entrepreneurs as a difficulty? Or do they deal with uncertainties of another type, for example, related to the political and economic context in the country? What business models are emerging in the industry for regional companies? What is the role of expectations and the imagination in the work of the company director or R & D engineers? How is this related to the specifics of the health industry? As a theoretical basis, the concepts of uncertainty in the innovation sector, as well as uncertainty associated with the rules of the game set by political and economic institutions, are considered. The strategies of innovative entrepreneurs in conditions of uncertainty are investigated using the concept of the imaginary in the version of science and technology studies (STS). This research identifies four business models of hi-tech entrepreneurs in Russia: Small deal supporters, Revolutionaries, Conformists, and Isolationists. In the development of medical equipment, it is important that the main customers of medical devices in Russia are state-owned hospitals. One of the most winning strategies for Russian entrepreneurs is the use of ambiguity, i.e., to secondguess the agenda set by government agencies and use official rhetoric in negotiations with officials. One might have expected that, especially in such a situation, imaginaries might be a vehicle for innovation. However, uncertainty about rules and ambiguity in political priorities results in an imaginary drama-imaginaries in med-tech companies do not exist, and neither does innovation.

Common Security and Defence Policy as France’s Winning Strategy ? Evidence from Recent Experience

France’s status as a conventional power makes Paris an inevitable actor in the context of Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). Insofar France is considered as a staunch protagonist of the EU/European strategic autonomy and an opponent against the US/NATO dominance in Europe, the most recent CSDP progress may be expected to belong to the merits of French decision-makers. Based on a closer analytical look, however, CSDP is not reducible to a coherent outcome of French interests. At the EU level, the French influence turns out to be limited. A strong ideological attachment of this EU Member State to sovereign politics and a consequential lack of commitment to common issues of defence and security may be viewed as an impediment to the materialisation of a more significant clout of Paris on the communitarian scale. Yet relevant limits are predominantly a structural consequence, which is a pattern enhanced by the current dynamics in global politics. This makes one consider France’s status as a “system-influencing state” more cautiously. In a sense, the paper takes issue with the literature on the recent CSDP progress as an expression of political and policy convergence and re-focuses attention on manners in which inter-European dynamics can shed light on positions of individual members.

The Kings of the Corona Crisis: The Impact of the outbreak of Covid‐19 on Small‐scale Producers in Hungary

SummaryThe Covid‐19 pandemic has fundamentally reshaped our lives. Its effects on the sales and use of marketing channels of small‐scale Hungarian producers are addressed here. Based on the level of proximity, sales channels were classified into three types. Due to local regulations concerning restrictions on movement, it was only impersonal (online) channels that survived, or the opposite type, i.e. very personal ones involving the face‐to‐face meeting of producers and consumers in the private spaces (mostly homes) of one of the parties. Results from the survey of 136 producers reveal that 60 per cent suffered an economic loss due to loss of sales, while 10 per cent increased their sales. Successful producers were those lucky enough to be operating within the fresh fruit and vegetable sector, within which consumer demand increased significantly. The parallel use of several sales channels before the virus outbreak increased subsequent chances of success by increasing the probability that some of the channels would remain operational. Furthermore, successful producers had invested a lot of work pre‐Covid into maintaining private relationships with their customers; a situation that proved vital during times of restrictions. Also, the former moved fast, and were open enough to learn and make use of the opportunities modern technology offered them.

The canonical pairs of bounded depth Frege systems

The canonical pair of a proof system P is the pair of disjoint NP sets where one set is the set of all satisfiable CNF formulas and the other is the set of CNF formulas that have P-proofs bounded by some polynomial. We give a combinatorial characterization of the canonical pairs of depth d Frege systems. Our characterization is based on certain games, introduced in this article, that are parametrized by a number k, also called the depth. We show that the canonical pair of a depth d Frege system is polynomially equivalent to the pair (Ad+2,Bd+2) where Ad+2 (respectively, Bd+1) are depth d+1 games in which Player I (Player II) has a positional winning strategy. Although this characterization is stated in terms of games, we will show that these combinatorial structures can be viewed as generalizations of monotone Boolean circuits. In particular, depth 1 games are essentially monotone Boolean circuits. Thus we get a generalization of the monotone feasible interpolation for Resolution, which is a property that enables one to reduce the task of proving lower bounds on the size of refutations to lower bounds on the size of monotone Boolean circuits. However, we do not have a method yet for proving lower bounds on the size of depth d games for d>1.

Women and social media during legislative elections in Indonesia

Social media platforms have become one of the most important online spaces for political communication. However, little is known about how women are using social media during campaign periods in the global South setting. By focusing on the use of Instagram and Twitter in Indonesia, this study examines how elected female representatives used these platforms during the 2019 legislative elections. The findings suggest that female politicians are more inclined to use Instagram than Twitter because of the features on Instagram that are heavily reliant on visual materials. Furthermore, some politicians remain sceptical in weighing up the benefits of digital campaigning since the full display of their activities through social media might put their winning strategies at risk. This study offers important insights as to how women in non-Western societies are using social media by applying unique strategies and considerations.

Symbolic Parity Game Solvers that Yield Winning Strategies

Parity games play an important role for LTL synthesis as evidenced by recent breakthroughs on LTL synthesis, which rely in part on parity game solving. Yet state space explosion remains a major issue if we want to scale to larger systems or specifications. In order to combat this problem, we need to investigate symbolic methods such as BDDs, which have been successful in the past to tackle exponentially large systems. It is therefore essential to have symbolic parity game solving algorithms, operating using BDDs, that are fast and that can produce the winning strategies used to synthesize the controller in LTL synthesis. Current symbolic parity game solving algorithms do not yield winning strategies. We now propose two symbolic algorithms that yield winning strategies, based on two recently proposed fixpoint algorithms. We implement the algorithms and empirically evaluate them using benchmarks obtained from SYNTCOMP 2020. Our conclusion is that the algorithms are competitive with or faster than an earlier symbolic implementation of Zielonka's recursive algorithm, while also providing the winning strategies.