In Rigveda Soma is an evergreen plant, with thousand stalks yellow hued bestowing auspicious energy. Resembling yellow fibres of hemp ephedra was rained in Chlnoso Ho-Ma, Yellow-hemp. It was Sanskritized as Soma. Being an energizer-cum-euphoriant its juice was consumed thrice daily. Finally it became a drug of longevity, rejuvenation and resurrection even god Soma. As drug it was substituted by...

Trivially, a SOMA(k, n) is Trojan for k = 0 and k = 1. Moreover, R. A. Bailey proved that every SOMA(n − 1, n) is Trojan. Computational analysis of some examples suggested that a similar result held for k = n − 2. This led Bailey, Cameron and Soicher to ask (BCC Problem 16.19 in Discrete Math. Vol. 197/198) whether a SOMA(n − 2, n) must be Trojan. In this paper, we prove that this is indeed the...

The Boundary Element Method has been applied to calculate stress distribution and stability of underground mines for disposal of chemical waste. A case similar to the Stripa mine in Sweden has been considered. The rock mass was granite, with major fracture zones represented by three families of planes mutually orthogonal and 100 meters distant from each other. The pre and post processor GiD [3]...

Long-lasting, dendritic, Ca(2+)-dependent action potentials (plateaus) were investigated in layer 5 pyramidal neurons from rat neocortical slices visualized by infrared-differential interference contrast microscopy to understand the role of dendritic Ca(2+) spikes in the integration of synaptic input. Focal glutamate iontophoresis on visualized dendrites caused soma firing rate to increase line...

Let k ≥ 0 and n ≥ 2 be integers. A SOMA, or more specifically a SOMA(k, n), is an n×n array A, whose entries are k-subsets of a kn-set Ω, such that each element of Ω occurs exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column of A, and no 2-subset of Ω is contained in more than one entry of A. A SOMA(k, n) can be constructed by superposing k mutually orthogonal Latin squares of order n with...

Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents (SOMA) have been proposed as a paradigm for reasoning about cultural groups, terror groups, and other socioeconomic-political-military organizations worldwide. In this paper, we describe a case study that shows how SOMA was used to model the behavior of the terrorist organization, Hezbollah. Our team, consisting of a mix of computer scientists, policy experts...