This paper reports an experiment that varies the range of Stag Hunt games experienced by the participants. The experiment provides evidence that changing the range influences the likelihood of efficient conventions emerging. In the experiment, we observe conditional behavior, much like risk dominance, emerging with experience. We develop a model of conditional expectations to explain these styl...

In the stag beetle family (Lucanidae), males have diverged from females by sexual selection. The males fight each other for mating opportunities with their enlarged mandibles. It is known that owners of larger fighting apparatuses are favoured to win the male-male fights, but it was unclear whether male stag beetles also need to produce high bite forces while grabbing and lifting opponents in f...

Cohesins hold sister chromatids together from DNA replication until they are segregated. Although cohesins Smc1, Smc3, and Scc1/Rad21 are involved in chromatid cohesion and other cellular processes, little is known about the other mitotic cohesin subunit, Scc3/STAG. Here we describe STAG/Scc3, which may act as a transcriptional co-activator. STAG2 is able to enhance the activity of the tumor ne...

Are individuals within modern societies more short-sighted than in previous generations? If so, what are the plausible changes in the environment and composition of society that could yield such a result? The model begins by assuming the population consists of two types (phenotypes) of individuals, (shortsighted/aggressive and foresighted/docile). These phenotypes interact with each other. Thes...

We present a novel formulation of quantum game theory based on the Schmidt decomposition, which has the merit that the entanglement of quantum strategies is manifestly quantified. We apply this formulation to 2-player, 2-strategy symmetric games and obtain a complete set of quantum Nash equilibria. Apart from those available with the maximal entanglement, these quantum Nash equilibria are exten...

Stag beetles are xylophagous insects that feed mainly on dead wood. They play an important role in the decomposition of dead wood in forest ecosystems. Most dead wood contains 1% nitrogen at most. It is suspected that stag beetles can utilize atmospheric nitrogen. We show that the larvae of Dorcus (Macrodorcus) rectus exposed to nitrogen reduce acetylene to ethylene in a time-dependent fashion....

This communication presents a progress report on an ongoing project aiming at the computation of complex fluid flows with a realistic constitutive law, which would takes into account the pseudoplastic, viscoelastic and thixotropic behaviour of the materials. The flow solver is based on the LS-STAG method, which is an immersed boundary (IB) method that allows the computation of flows in complex ...

A probabilistic framework is developed in which one can analyze both the classical and the quantum games. We suggest exploiting peculiar probabilities involved in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) experiments to construct quantum games. In our framework a game attains classical interpretation when probabilities are factorizable and a quantum game corresponds when probabilities cannot be factori...

In this paper, we propose a notion of threshold tag-based encryption schemes that simplifies the notion of threshold identity-based encryption schemes, and we show a conversion from any stag-CCAsecure threshold tag-based encryption schemes to CCA-secure threshold public-key encryption schemes. Moreover, we give two concrete constructions of stag-CCA-secure threshold tag-based encryption schemes...