Maybe this is the era of “contraction.” In the United States, we have been warned by major league baseball that because of revenue losses, at least two major league teams are going to be removed from the league. Curiously enough, there is much discussion (and action) for contraction of the length of specialty residencies in the United States also, with a more streamlined training of thoracic su...

We present a novel strategy for unsupervised feature learning in image applications inspired by the Spike-Timing-Dependent-Plasticity (STDP) biological learning rule. We show equivalence between rank order coding Leaky-Integrate-and-Fire neurons and ReLU artificial neurons when applied to non-temporal data. We apply this to images using rank-order coding, which allows us to perform a full netwo...

In many competitive situations (including nearly all sports) a player’s aim is not simply to maximise his score but to maximise its rank among all scores. Examples include sales contests (where the salesman with highest monthly sales gets a bonus) and patent races (where lowest time is best). We assume the score Xi of player i is obtained costlessly, so that his utility is the probability of ha...

The article explores the issue of inheritance under right representation legislation Ukraine. understanding category «inheritance by representation» established law in Civil Code Ukraine has been established. Definitions concept available legal literature and judicial practice analysed characteristic features have determined. Attention is focused on fact that should be considered precisely as a...

alport syndrome is a progressive hereditary nephritis leading to renal failure. nearly all of the documents declare that alport syndrome is inherited as x-linked dominant trait and reports of autosomal inheritance form is very rare. this paper presents an iranian large alport family with autosomal recessive inheritance. in our patients alport disease was confirmed with electron microscopic stud...