The speed, bandwidth and cost characteristics of today’s PC graphics cards make them an attractive target as general purpose computational platforms. High performance can be achieved also for lattice simulations but the actual implementation can be cumbersome. This paper outlines the architecture and programming model of modern graphics cards for the lattice practitioner with the goal of exploi...

Background: The angular dependency of response for TLD cards may cause deviation from its true value on the results of environmental dosimetry, since TLDs may be exposed to radiation at different angles of incidence from the surrounding area.Objective: A 3D setting of TLD cards has been calibrated isotropically in a standard radiation field to evaluate the improvement of the accuracy of meas...

The preferred method of randomizing a deck of N cards is the riffle shuffle–cut the deck into two stacks, then riffle the two stacks together. A number of mathematical models have been proposed for this process. The model which has received the most attention, and about which the most is known, is the GSR (for Gilbert, Shannon, and Reeds) shuffle. In this model, all permutations with exactly on...

introduction: nowadays different countries benefit from health system based on health cards and projects related to smart cards. lack of facilities which cover this technology is obvious in our society. this paper aims to design minimum data sets of health smart card system for iran. methods: this research was an applied descriptive study. at first, we reviewed the same projects and guidelines ...

Mixed reality games (MRGs) pose new challenges but also opportunities to designers. In order to make the design space of MRGs easily accessible and enable collaborative design in a playful manner we have developed Mixed Reality Game Cards. These ideation cards synthesize design knowledge about MRGs and are inspired by a variety of other successful ideation cards. We describe six studies, illust...

Magic: The Gathering (MTG, or Magic) is the oldest and most popular trading card game played today, due in part to the complex interplay of thousands of cards. In two-player games, each player constructs a "main" deck (referred to as simply 'deck' hereafter) which consists of 60 cards, allowing players to pursue an enormous number of strategies and card combinations. When experienced Magic play...