In November 2010, Washington State will be voting on two initiatives, I-1100 and I-1105, that aim to privatize alcohol sales, ending the state’s monopoly on spirits. Supporters of the initiatives claim that privatization has the potential to save the state hundreds of thousands of dollars; opponents counter that it could end up costing the state more in the long-run, as problem drinking increas...

Introduction We were interested in collecting data regarding the impact of the LA program implemented by the department of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Does the use of LAs acting as guides to other undergraduates taking MATH 1300 (Calculus 1) improve the students’ perception of mathematics? Also, what is the impact of new conceptual worksheets on classroom culture and s...

I present my submission MM1 to the Chord Estimation Task of the 2010 Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX 2010). The front-end chroma generation is based on a new implementation of NNLS Chroma as a Vamp plugin. The higher level model is very simple, and a very similar method is implemented as the nonHMM version of the Chordino plugin. These two plugins are now available at htt...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 1Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Centre Rebro, Kispaticeva 12, Zagreb 10000, Croatia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article doi:10.1186/cc9272 Cite this article as: Gornik I, et al.: Correction: A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in m...

We present a novel holistic approach (called IC – Intra-route and Inter-route Coordination) to prolong the sensor network lifetime under the end-to-end delivery delay constraint. IC is composed of two lifetime balancing modules: (i) the IntraRoute Coordination module that allows the nodes on the same route to balance their nodal lifetimes through adjusting the MAC behaviors collaboratively; (ii...

Two species in the genera Neoperla and Kamimuria (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from China are described as new: Kamimuria guangxia sp. n., and Neoperla mesostyla sp. n. The new species are compared to similar taxa.

Modern day stock markets have almost entirely became automated. Even though it means increased profits for the investors by algorithms acting upon the slightest price change in order of microseconds, it also has given birth to many ethical dilemmas in the sense that slightest mistake can cause people to lose all of their livelihoods. This paper reviews one such event that happened on May 06, 20...