Encouraging sustainable water use is a critical endeavor in addressing issues associated with shortand long-term droughts. Toilets account for up to 26.7% of indoor household water use. Therefore substantial opportunity exists to conserve water via reduced flushing after urination at home. Here, we use an online survey (N 1⁄4 1008) to identify barriers to reduced flushing. The majority of parti...

The Gold Rush (figure 1), a 1925 classic silent movie by Chaplin, depicted him in his trademark little tramp character as a lone prospector searching for the precious metal somewhere in Alaska. On 16 November 2011, the release of the current revision of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) Executive Summary in Shanghai, China, just recently published elsewhere, gave...

Laboratory and clinical investigations of immunotherapy in cancer treatment have been underway for the past several decades by attempting to stimulate, enhance, and modulate the immune system to detect and destroy cancer cells. Although immunotherapy has shown success in a wide variety of cancers previously: BCG in superficial bladder cancer, interferon-alpha in melanoma, and high-dose interleu...

Game refinement theory has started to provide some interesting tools to measure sophistication of board games, sport games, and video games. In this paper, we apply game refinement theory to UNO R © card game, from which we identify valuable aspects regarding multiplayer and incomplete information game. Specifically, we analyze game refinement value zone of UNO and reveal recommended number of ...