a Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence Veteran's Affairs Medical Center, (116) 830 Chalkstone Ave. Providence, RI 02908-4799, USA b Department of Computer Science, Brown University, USA c Vrije Universitet, Amsterdam, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, The Netherlands d Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry, Center for Neur...

From the Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital and Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI. Presented at the 2010 American Heart Association meeting in Chicago, IL, November 12–16, 2010. The online-only Data Supplement is available at http://circ.ahajournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.012112/-/DC1. Correspondence to R...

1Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, 200 Sec. 7, Taiwan Boulevard, Shalu District, Taichung City 43301, Taiwan 2Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Providence University, 200 Sec. 7, Taiwan Boulevard, Shalu District, Taichung City 43301, Taiwan 3School of Computing and Mathematics, Computer Science Research Institute, Univ...

Why did God create a vast universe? Various answers are discussed and rejected: (a) for its beauty; (b) to instill sense of the sublime in his intelligent creatures; (c) demonstrate glory, (d) provide home extraterrestrial species; (e) guarantee that natural emergence (intelligent) life, though extremely rare, happens nonetheless somewhere; (f) no reason at all, because human notion efficiency ...