A diverse body of research has demonstrated that people update their beliefs to a greater extent when receiving good news compared to bad news. Recently, a paper by Shah et al. claimed that this asymmetry does not exist. Here we carefully examine the experiments and simulations described in Shah et al. and follow their analytic approach on our data sets. After correcting for confounds we identi...

The Mumford-Shah model has been one of the most powerful models in image segmentation and denoising. The optimization of the multiphase Mumford-Shah energy functional has been performed using level sets methods that optimize the Mumford-Shah energy by evolving the level sets via the gradient descent. These methods are very slow and prone to getting stuck in local optima due to the use of the gr...

In The Lancet Global Health, Younes Mohammadi and colleagues present an estimate of the change in under-5 child mortality rate (CMR) from 1990 to 2015 in Iran. The dramatic 70% reduction means that Iran as a whole achieved Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) and was one of the best performers in the Middle East and North Africa region in absolute reduction of CMR during the past four decades. ...

A. Mohammadi, M. R. Baneshi 3 , T. Khalili 1,* Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Afzalipour School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Physiology Research center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. Modeling in Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, ...

This short expository note gives an elementary introduction to the study of dynamics on certain moduli spaces and, in particular, the recent breakthrough result of Eskin, Mirzakhani, and Mohammadi. We also discuss the context and applications of this result, and its connections to other areas of mathematics, such as algebraic geometry, Teichmüller theory, and ergodic theory on homogeneous spaces.

GUEST EDITORS Arash Mohammadi, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, [email protected] Peng Cheng, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, [email protected] Vincenzo Piuri, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, [email protected] Konstantinos N. Plataniotis, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, [email protected] Patrizio Campisi, Universitá degli Studi Roma ...

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