released board games based on The Walking Dead; one for the graphic novel series (Kirkman 2003) and one for its television adaptation (AMC 2010-present), respectively. Both games reference their core text in the artwork and style, and both develop from an explicit association with the requisite text of each medium. The game based on the comic, The Walking Dead – The Board Game (Z-Man) is a comp...

We consider a differential game, in which the joint choices of the two players influences the variance, but not the mean, of the one-dimensional state variable. We interpret this state variable as a summary of how far ‘ahead’ player 1 is in the game. The flow payoffs that the players enjoy are a continuous, monotonic and bounded function of this state variable. In any Markov Perfect Equilibrium...

Despite the proliferation of multi-core and multi-threaded architectures, exploiting implicit parallelism for a single semantic thread is still a crucial component in achieving high performance. Look-ahead is a tried-and-true strategy in uncovering implicit parallelism, but a conventional, monolithic out-of-order core quickly becomes resource-inefficient when looking beyond a small distance. A ...

In this paper, we show that the Chapman-Kolmogorov formula could be used as a recursive formula for computing the m-step-ahead conditional density of a Markov bilinear model. The stationary marginal probability density function of the model may be approximated by the m-step-ahead conditional density for sufficiently large m.

This paper discusses the application of different algorithm transformation techniques in Code Division Multiple Access receivers (CDMA). This is achieved by looking at some of the computational blocks that constitute the CDMA receivers. We focus on the Look-Ahead, Relaxed Look-ahead and Strength Reduction algorithm transformation techniques and demonstrate how CDMA receivers could benefit when ...

BACKGROUND AHEAD (A: atrial fibrillation; H: hemoglobin; E: elderly; A: abnormal renal parameters; D: diabetes mellitus) score has been related to clinical outcomes of acute heart failure. However, the prognostic value of the AHEAD score in acute heart failure patients with either reduced or preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF and HFpEF) remain to be elucidated. METHODS AND RE...

Wal-Mart is the largest company in the world, yet little is known about its economic impact. This essay discusses what is known about Wal-Mart’s competitive advantage and its economic impact on local communities, as well as the national and global economy, and highlights the open questions to be addressed by future research. JEL Codes: L11, L25, L81

Granger’s (1969) popular concept of causality, based on work by Weiner (1956), is typically defined in terms of predictability for one period ahead. Recently, Dufour and Renault (1998) generalized the concept to causality at a given horizon h, and causality up to horizon h, where h is a positive integer that can be infinite (1≤h<∞); see also Sims (1980), Hsiao (1982) and Lütkepohl (1993a) for r...