Do not scratch that mole!

SCRATCH THAT!—Two case reports of scratch-card gambling disorder.

Gambling disorder is a common, clinically relevant condition that impacts significantly one's life. Given that approved pharmacological interventions are lacking, it is crucial to readily identify these cases to provide available interventions in psychiatric care services. Here, we present two uncommon cases of unique scratch-card gambling disorder, a specific type of pathological gambling that...

Robots That Do Not Avoid Obstacles

The motion planning problem is a fundamental problem in robotics, so that every autonomous robot should be able to deal with it. A number of solutions have been proposed and a probabilistic one seems to be quite reasonable. However, here we propose a more adoptive solution that uses fuzzy set theory and we expose this solution next to a sort survey on the recent theory of soft robots, for a fut...

Ideal clutters that do not pack

For a clutter C over ground set E, a pair of distinct edges e, f ∈ E are coexclusive if every minimal cover contains at most one of them. An identification of C is another clutter obtained after identifying coexclusive edges of C. If a clutter is non-packing, then so is any identification of it. Inspired by this observation, and impelled by the lack of a qualitative characterization for ideal m...

Delivering 'Cool URIs' That Do Not Change

Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) are an accepted and standard way to identify data records and entities, providing a necessary element in data access, query and integration. Identifiers.org is an infrastructure that enables the generation (and resolution) of perennial and globally unique URIs for life science data, independently of where the data record is actually stored. This system allows...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?