This paper explores the impact that game technologies are having on five different industry segments. As they have matured, these technologies have proven to be very useful for a number of tasks that are different from their gaming origins. In this paper we explore the adoption of game technologies into the areas of entertainment, training, scientific analysis, decision making, and marketing. E...

K eith Roberts Porter died on May 2, 1997, just over a month short of his 85th birthday. He had the perspicacity, good fortune, and patience to take advantage of the fast moving frontier of analytical biology after the Second World War to provide many of the techniques and experimental approaches that established the new field of biomedical research now known as cell biology. He was renowned fo...

UNLABELLED Porter is a new system for protein secondary structure prediction in three classes. Porter relies on bidirectional recurrent neural networks with shortcut connections, accurate coding of input profiles obtained from multiple sequence alignments, second stage filtering by recurrent neural networks, incorporation of long range information and large-scale ensembles of predictors. Porter...

Plant soil specialists contribute greatly to global diversity; however, the ecoevolutionary forces responsible for generating this diversity are poorly understood. We integrate molecular phylogenies with descriptive and experimental ecological data, creating a powerful framework with which to elucidate forces driving soil specialization. Hypotheses explaining edaphic specialization have histori...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2010 Published by doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2010.09.024 ⇑ Tel.: +886 2 26585801 5205. E-mail address: [email protected] Supply chain management allows modern enterprises to relax their own capacities and produce in a more flexible manner for diversified consumer demands. However, for an enterprise with divergent supply chain (DSC) and multiple product lines, to plan t...

Abstract Competition amongst national firms and as extension amongst international firms is determined via a complex interaction of forces. Porter (1985, 1990) has proposed a concrete way to measure competitiveness through its well-known model. Sanidas (2005, 2006) has introduced a more detailed management and organization-based model with microeconomic elements that present a new and more comp...

A fundamental notion in community ecology is that local species diversity reflects some balance between the contrasting forces of competitive exclusion and competitive release. Quantifying this balance is not trivial, and requires data on the magnitude of both processes in the same system, as well as appropriate methodology to integrate and interpret such data. Here we present a novel framework...

Attempts made ​​in order to improve management tools of performance showing the importance of customer satisfaction in determining the organizations’ success in profitability and business. The main objective of this study was to develop appropriate strategies to improve patient satisfaction in Hospital.   The research was a descriptive-practical one. Data was collected through a brainstorming...

We investigate the evolution and survival of decision making strategies for the Deterrence Game in a population of interacting agents. The Deterrence Game is a sequential, two player game that is used to study how player preference orderings affect the outcome in situations of conflict. Although there are twenty-four possible player preference orderings, only five are given serious theoretical ...