The past two decades of international experience with wholesale electricity markets has demonstrated that significant consumer harm can result from firms simply engaging in unilateral profit-maximizing behavior given the actions of their competitors. Different from other product markets, coordinated actions among suppliers or the concentration of production capacity in the hands of a small numb...

Random is not a word often used in describing nervous system organization and its development. Yet, in this issue of Neuron, Owens et al. (2015) identify stochastic interactions of molecular and activity-dependent forces that can produce heterogeneous retinocollicular maps.

We present a very tedious proof of the n = 4 case of the Tied Dice Theorem. Suppose X = (x1; x2; x3; x4); Y = (y1; y2; y3; y4) 2 D(4; a; b; s) are distinct, tied, non-balanced dice. Let denote the number of pairs (i; j) with xi = yj ; as X and Y are tied, there must be (16 )=2 pairs (xi; yj) with xi > yj , and (16 )=2 pairs (xi; yj) with xi < yj . For each value of we list the various possible ...

Recently deep neural networks have shown many successful applications in different domains. For this lesion segmentation task, we utilize a deep convolutional neural network with 5 layers in a sliding window fashion to create a voxel-based classifier. We evaluate our system with Dice similarity, misclassification rate and area under the ROC curve. Based on experimental results our proposed CAD ...

Increasing values and spread in leakage current makes it impossible to distinguish between faulty and fault-free chips using single threshold method. Neighboring chips on a wafer have similar fault-free properties. By obtaining differences in IDDQ values it is possible to discriminate faulty dice. In this paper, a technique in which comparison of IDDQ of a die with that of its neighboring dice ...

Pathological gambling (PG) is most likely associated with functional brain changes as well as neuropsychological and personality alterations. Recent research with the Iowa Gambling Task suggests decision-making impairments in PG. These deficits are usually attributed to disturbances in feedback processing and associated functional alterations of the orbitofrontal cortex. However, previous studi...

Ideas, ranging from product preferences to political views, spread through social interactions. These interactions may determine how ideas are adopted within a market and which, if any, become dominant. In this paper, we introduce a model for Dynamic Influence in Competitive Environments (DICE). We show that existing models of influence propagation, including linear threshold and independent ca...