Thematic investing is increasingly shaping how investors interpret markets heading into 2026 as AI, geopolitical fragmentation and infrastructure constraints intersect. Jay Jacobs discusses.
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By Hippolyte FofackIt is almost impossible to imagine European Union officials receiving their salaries in a currency other than the euro, which has become an emblem of European identity and unity.
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Digital tools allow archaeologists to identify similarities between fragments and artifacts and potentially recover previously unknown parts of their stories.
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Abstract: To improve storage efficiency in large-scale clustered storage systems, deduplication that removes duplicate chunks has been widely deployed in distributed ways. Many distributed ...
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Abstract: In a capacitated vehicle routing problem (CVRP), multiple vehicles are planned to travel for serving customers so as to reduce transportation costs in logistics. Taking each CVRP as a task, ...