In the 2014 annual meeting of the Korean Society of Mathematical Biology, the managing editor proposed an interesting idea: viewing problematic gambling as a contagious disease [1]. One article was then submitted and enlisted in the June issue of this journal [2]. As part of our efforts to imprint a unique feature to the readers of biomedical journals by publishing at least one mathematical mod...

An 8-bit programmable square finder cum frequency divider architecture is presented. This special architecture includes a high speed parallel counter, clock trigger circuit, eight bit multiplier logic, sequence termination logic and sequence restarter logic. The entire architecture is divided into two parts: The frequency divider section and the square finder section. The frequency divider circ...

model [2] has been generally considered in both computer graphics and computer vision areas as a good Since the surface reflectance is a function of the geophysics-based model to describe the specular reflecmetrical components and the physical surface chartion of rough surfaces. However, since this model is acteristics, the reflectance parameters can be esticomplicated in nature, the simplified...

Climate change involves uncertain probabilities of catastrophic risks, and very longterm consequences of current actions. Climate economics, therefore, is centrally concerned with the treatment of risk and time. Yet conventional assumptions about utility and optimal economic growth create a perverse connection between risk aversion and time preference, such that more aversion to current risks i...

The tibio-femoral joint has been mechanically approximated with two fixed kinematic axes of rotation, the longitudinal rotational (LR) axis in the tibia and the flexion-extension (FE) axis in the femur. The mechanical axis finder developed by Hollister et al. (1993, "The Axes of Rotation of the Knee," Clin. Orthop. Relat. Res., 290, pp. 259-268) identified the two fixed axes but the visual-base...

Collocations constitute an important type of syntagmatic information whose introduction into WordNets has not yet been addressed. The goal of our work is the integration of the collocational material for the field of emotion nouns encoded in the DIccionario de colocaciones del español (DICE) in terms of Lexical Functions into the Spanish part of the EuroWordNet (SpEWN). Two features of collocat...

Medicine, BIDMC/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Figure 1 DICE similarity coefficients obtained with and without the proposed motion correction approach in pre (5-3 scheme) and post contrast (4-3-2 scheme) T1w image series. Average DICE coefficients over each T1w image series (left column), and over each in...

We report on the construction of real-world dice equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology that support the automated readout and processing of rolled results. Such augmented dice help to build “smart” tabletop games that are able to unobtrusively detect the players’ actions, allowing them to better focus on the gameplay and the social interaction with other players. Since ...