Personification of interface agents has been speculated to have several advantages, such as a positive effect on agent credibility and on the perception of learning experience. However, important questions less often addressed so far are what effect personification has on more objective measures, such as comprehension and recall, and furthermore, under what circumstances this effect (if any) oc...

The early tendon regenerate after an Achilles tendon rupture is a watery tissue, likely to show time-dependent deformation during load. To our knowledge the extent of such deformation has not previously been estimated in humans. Estimations of mechanical properties of intact tendons have usually applied ultrasonography1. This method measures the entire length of the tendon, and is therefore unl...

Ciphers get their strength from the mathematical functions of confusion and diffusion, also known as substitution and permutation. These were the basics of classical cryptography and they are still the basic part of modern ciphers. In block ciphers diffusion is achieved by the use of Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) matrices. In this paper we present some methods for constructing dynamic (and r...

The National Institutes of Health needs to make radical changes to ensure that biomedical research continues to thrive in the United States.

In 2009, 97 cases of listeriosis were reported in Denmark (1.8 per 100,000), a significant rise over the previous year. The increase was seen both in cases of bacteraemia and meningitis and affected mainly people aged 70 years and older. A foodborne outbreak of eight cases was identified by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing. No explanation has so far been found for the marked increase in ...

A fundamental task of data analysis is comprehending what distinguishes clusters found within the data. We present the problem of mining distinguishing sets which seeks to find sets of objects or attributes that induce that most change among the incremental bi-clusters of a binary dataset. Unlike emerging patterns and contrast sets which only focus on statistical differences between support of ...

plaintiff in civil litigation from the beginning which deals with petition to theend of litigation which the judge sets out a verdict, to reach his wasted or deniedright and to stabilize it, should comply with rules of proceeding and state matter offact and matters of law and prove the claim. therefor he must propose four issuesand prove them to reach the relief sought: 1.formal rules of proced...