Concepts of neuronal damage and repair date back to ancient times. The research in this topic has been growing ever since and numerous nerve repair techniques have evolved throughout the years. Due to our greater understanding of nerve injuries and repair we now distinguish between central and peripheral nervous system. In this review, we have chosen to concentrate on peripheral nerve injuries ...

The dynamics of a genetic algorithm undergoing ranking selection, mutation, and two-point crossover for the ones-counting problem is studied using a statistical mechanics approach. This approach has been used previously to study this problem, but with uniform crossover. Two-point crossover induces additional linkage between nearby loci which changes the dynamics significantly. To account for th...

Several approaches have been demonstrated to build focus tunable lenses. The additional degree of freedom enables the design of elegant, compact optical systems, typically with less mechanics. We present a new range of electrically and mechanically focus tunable lenses of different sizes and tuning ranges and discuss their characteristics. We show how tunable lenses can be used to improve optic...

To automatically annotate songs with descriptive keywords, a variety of content-based auto-tagging strategies have been proposed in recent years. Different approaches may capture different aspects of a song’s musical content, such as timbre, temporal dynamics, rhythmic qualities, etc. As a result, some auto-taggers may be better suited to model the acoustic characteristics commonly associated w...

Rockstar Games is a video game publisher famous for its immersive and highly detailed action-adventure titles set in America, thanks to two main franchises, Red Dead Redemption Grand Theft Auto. This article explores how employs the location play elements of Auto V (2013), title that has now generated over $6 billion worldwide sales, critique American culture, politics, lifestyle. Presented by ...