Colonies that conquer

COVASIAM: an image analysis method that allows detection of confluent microbial colonies and colonies of various sizes for automated counting.

In this work we introduce the confluent and various sizes image analysis method (COVASIAM), an automated colony count technique that uses digital imaging technology for detection and separation of confluent microbial colonies and colonies of various sizes growing on petri dishes. The proposed method takes advantage of the optical properties of the surfaces of most microbial colonies. Colonies i...

Conquer Fear

Conquer Fear. By John Langdon-Davies. Feature Books Ltd., London, 1948. pp. 173. 5s. This little book, by an experienced popular writer on science and on contemporary problems, will contribute something to mental hygiene. It has been read by the reviewer in as naive a frame of mind as possible to try and find the places that might jar. There are not many, despite my prejudice against the slight...

Divide-And-Conquer Sorting

Divide and Conquer

Process mining has been around for more than a decade now, and in that period several discovery and replay algorithms have been introduced that work fairly well on averagesized event logs. Nevertheless, these algorithms have problems dealing with big event logs. If the algorithms do not run out of memory, they will run out of time, because the problem handed to them is just too complex to be so...

Cooperate and Conquer ∗

The idea that cooperation can be a source of power has been extensively discussed in various disciplines. We study this idea from an economic viewpoint by analyzing the effect of intragroup cooperation in a static group rent-seeking model. Intragroup cooperation means that agents’ rent-seeking efforts maximize their group’s expected payoff. Although intragroup cooperation always reduces average...