Nintendo’s Mario Kart is perhaps the most popular racing video game franchise. Players race alone or against opponents to finish in the fastest time possible. Players can also use items to attack and defend from other racers. We prove two hardness results for generalized Mario Kart: deciding whether a driver can finish a course alone in some given time is NP-hard, and deciding whether a player ...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Jülide Sayın Kart, Acıbadem Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul, Türkiye Phone: +90 216 544 40 77 E-mail: [email protected] ©Copyright 2015 by Turkish Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Society Available online at www.jtaics.org Received : 17.11.2014 Accepted : 20.12.2014 Available Online Date : 16.02.2015 Jülid...

A go-kart is a four-wheel drive that lacks suspension system and differential unit due to the very low ground clearance usually employed for Formula E or 1 racing. Due absence of system, chassis should be rigid strong enough withstand impact loads, as well other support equipment. The present research focused on design, material selection, structural vibrational analysis chassis. For this, desi...

Motivation Next-generation sequencing (NGS) provides a great opportunity to investigate genome-wide variation at nucleotide resolution. Due to the huge amount of data, NGS applications require very fast and accurate alignment algorithms. Most existing algorithms for read mapping basically adopt seed-and-extend strategy, which is sequential in nature and takes much longer time on longer reads. ...

This study examined parameters under which risk compensation in driving can occur following the use of safety belts. Risk compensation theories hypothesize that if individuals use safety belts, they will drive in a more risky manner than if they do not use safety belts due to an increased perception of safety. Although the existence of risk compensation in driving has been debated in the litera...