The story is a familiar one: a young person drowns, but members of his or her family insist that the deceased was a “good swimmer.” Now, researchers from the Mayo Clinic think they may have found a genetic component to this unlikely tragedy. The researchers identified a new mutation in a gene associated with long-QT syndrome (LQTS) in a young female drowning victim (Ackerman MJ, Tester DJ, Cobu...

We present a method for calculating odometry in three-dimensions for car-like ground vehicles with an Ackerman-like steering model. In our approach we use the information from a single camera to derive the odometry in the plane and fuse it with roll and pitch information derived from an on-board IMU to extend to three-dimensions, thus providing odometric altitude as well as traditional x and y ...

Individual differences in skill acquisition are influenced by several architectural factors. According to Ackerman’s theory, general intelligence, speed of proceduralization and psychomotor speed influence different stages of skill acquisition. The ACT-R cognitive architecture allows for direct testing of this theory by manipulating parameters that correspond to these factors. The present study...

Introduction: Oral verrucous carcinoma (OVC) is a rare malignancy of the oral cavity that was first described by Ackerman. This tumor is a well-differentiated low-grade, slow growing cancer that is locally invasive without metastasis. Ameloblastoma is one of the most common odontogenic tumors, which originates from the odontogenic epithelium. Verrucous carcinoma along with central ambloblastoma...

Physical and virtual K&C analyses are performed to achieve the vehicle dynamics targets by finding optimum variables such as position of hardpoints or stiffnesses bushings. However, appropriate design that meet all aims is challenging. This paper evaluates a hardpoint optimization approach attain suspension characteristic objectives with experiments, neural networks, genetic algorithm, base...

The notion ‘preverb’ is a traditional descriptive notion in Indo-European linguistics. It refers to morphemes that appear in front of a verb, and which form a close semantic unit with that verb. In many cases, the morpheme that functions as a preverb can also function without a preverbal context, often as an adverb or an adposition. Most linguists use the notion ‘preverb’ as a cover term for pr...

[1] In two previous articles (Burns 2000, 2002) I have explored the topic and some of the relevant literature on homoeroticism in the Hebrew Bible, the ancient Near East and the Judeo-Christian traditions. Since then a few more studies have revisited the subject, notably those of Ackerman and Jennings. It is worthwhile to consider them, to assess their contribution to the ongoing debate and to ...

Mark S. Link, MD, FACC, FHRS, Chair, Derek V. Exner, MD, MPH, FHRS, Mark Anderson, MD, PhD, Michael Ackerman, MD, PhD, Amin Al-Ahmad, MD, FHRS, Bradley P. Knight, MD, FHRS, Steven M. Markowitz, MD, Elizabeth S. Kaufman, MD, FHRS, David Haines, MD, FACC, FHRS, Samuel J. Asirvatham, MD, David J. Callans, MD, J. Paul Mounsey, BM BCh, PhD, Frank Bogun, MD, Sanjiv M. Narayan, MD, PhD, FHRS, Andrew D...

We experimentally study the effect of alternative campaign finance systems – as characterized by different information structure about donors – on donations, election outcomes, political candidates' policy choices, and welfare. Three alternative campaign finance systems are considered: a full anonymity (FA) system in which neither the politicians nor the voters are informed about the donors' id...