We analyze multiple casts as an easy and non-technical approach to overcome some of the open questions and risks of online voting. The mechanism of multiple casts can be added to almost all existing online voting systems. Nevertheless, there are also some disadvantages, for instance the validity of a timestamp, which are discussed in the paper as well.

Synthetic genetic analysis was improved by eliminating leaky expression of the HIS3 reporter and gene conversion between the HIS3 reporter and his3Delta1. Leaky expression was eliminated using 3-aminotriazole and gene conversion was eliminated by using the Schizosaccharomyces pombe his5+ gene, resulting in a 5- to 10-fold improvement in the efficiency of SGA.

Motor imagery plays an important role in motor control and learning. Motor imagery can be assessed on three levels: subjective experience, motor behaviour, and physiological measures. In this paper we propose a computer-aided selection test (CAST) which enables researchers to analyse the procedure of reconstructing mental representations. The two versions of the CAST (pictures vs. verbal items)...

Within the manufacturing process planning, blanks are either selected or designed, respectively forms of input material for the manufacture of products. Reviewed in this paper are three types of group blanks: group castings, group forgings manufactured by closed die forging and free forging, and group blanks manufactured by pressing melted metal in casts. The paper also presents requisites for ...

This paper demonstrates that piecewise, rotated explicit curves are flexible enough for 2–D modeling applications such as font design. Their use simplifies many operations such as scan conversion, point classification, and curve intersection.

We extend Approval voting to the settings where voters may have intransitive preferences. The major obstacle to applying Approval voting in these settings is that voters are not able to clearly determine who they should approve or disapprove, due to the intransitivity of their preferences. An approach to address this issue is to apply tournament solutions to help voters make the decision. We st...

in a voice conversion system speech signal of a speaker (i.e. source speaker) is modified so that it sounds as if it had been pronounced by b speaker (i.e. target speaker). this process, sometimes, is called speaker conversion (changing speaker identity). achieved signal from speaker conversion system is desired to have high quality and very natural. to satisfy this, three major methods are pro...