OP-ED P. 3 I pledge allegiance The 300 or so students transferring to McMurtry and Duncan all have their reasons, so why the scarlet letters? A&E P. 9 One step up, two steps back As the calendar turns, here's a look back at the holiday flicks and a preview of the best video games to come in 2010. SPORTS P. 11 Lucky number seven The women's track and field team has six straight titles under its ...

American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery position statement on intragastric balloon therapy endorsed by the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons Mohamed R. Ali, M.D.*, Fady Moustarah, M.D., Julie J. Kim, M.D., on behalf of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Clinical Issues Committee Department of Surgery, University of California-Davis M...

The paper presents a system for the secure distribution of a copyrighted video based on fingerprinting scheme. A combined selective watermarking and encryption method that operates in the compressed MPEG domain is introduced. Watermarking resistant to a number of attacks is used for copyright protection. The video quality deteriorates significantly due to encryption, thus restraining unauthoriz...

Using a continuous impulsivity and risk platform (CIRP) that was constructed using a video game engine, choice was assessed under conditions in which waiting produced a continuously increasing probability of an outcome with a continuously decreasing magnitude (Experiment 1) or a continuously increasing magnitude of an outcome with a continuously decreasing probability (Experiment 2). Performanc...