This article presents a meta-analysis of experiments testing the hypothesis that consciousness (in particular, mental intention) can cause tossed dice to land with specified targets face up. Seventy-three English language reports, published from 1935 to 1987, were retrieved. This literature describes 148 studies reported by a total of 52 investigators, involving more than 2 million dice throws ...

red fleshed apples have high levels of anthocyanins in their flesh. iran enjoys a large variety of these apples due to its location in central asia. in the present study, 20 genotypes including eight iranian red fleshed and 12 commercial iranian and foreign apples were selected for the study of genetic diversity of red fleshed apples. we used a set of 11 microsatellite markers (ssrs) to determi...

This is an overview paper describing the data and evaluation scheme of the VISCERAL Segmentation Challenge at ISBI 2015. The challenge was organized on a cloud-based virtualmachine environment, where each participant could develop and submit their algorithms. The dataset contains up to 20 anatomical structures annotated in a training and a test set consisting of CT and MR images with and withou...

The most widely followed procedure for diagnosis and prognosis of dementia is structural neuroimaging of hippocampus by means of MR. Hippocampus segmentation is of wide interest as it enables quantitative assessment of the structure. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for hippocampus segmentation that is unsupervised and image driven. It is based on a hybrid approach which combines a coarse...

Probabilistic uncertainty is caused by ‘‘chance’’, whereas strategic uncertainty is caused by an adverse interested party. Using linear impact functions, the problems of allocating a limited resource to defend sites that face either probabilistic risk or strategic risk are formulated as optimization problems that are solved explicitly. The resulting optimal policies differ – under probabilistic...