Bridge(Japan Bridge Association)

To bridge or not to bridge?

OBJECTIVE Ventricular assist devices (VAD) are an important therapy that saves the lives of candidates a waiting heart transplantation (HTx). However, there are questions about posttransplantation effects of VADs. METHODS Seventy-four patients with end-stage heart failure who underwent HTx in our clinic between February 2007 and July 2011 were divided into two groups; a bridge cohort (n = 28)...

Bridge decay

This paper is about three points: network bridges are critical to the advantage known as social capital, bridges relative to other kinds of relationships show faster rates of decay over time, and the faster decay in bridges has implications for the stability of social capital. A bridge connects people not otherwise connected; in other words, it spans a structural hole in the surrounding organiz...

Generational bridge

Bridge Percolation

In bridge percolation one gives a special weight to bridges, i.e., bonds that if occupied would create the first spanning cluster. We show that, for p > pc, even far away from the critical point of classical percolation, the set of bridge bonds is fractal with a fractal dimension dBB = 1.215±0.002. This new percolation exponent is related to various different models like, e.g., the optimal path...

Trusted Bridge

Nowadays, there are many online file storage services providing convienent, accessible and giant clouds for people’s daily usage. However, the convenience always comes with trust issues. There are many hackers around the world, sometimes your precious even private information is under peeking. This kind of hackers can also be extended to business services, e.g. data mining, machine learning, an...