We present bijections for planar maps with boundaries. In particular, we obtain bijections for triangulations and quadrangulations of the sphere with boundaries of prescribed lengths. For triangulations we recover the beautiful factorized formula obtained by Krikun using a (technically involved) generating function approach. The analogous formula for quadrangulations is new. Our method is to sh...

Mental stress elicits a robust and consistent forearm vasodilation, but vascular reactivity in the calf remains inconsistent. It has been reported that calf vascular responses to MS may be sex dependent. Muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA) is an important contributor to calf blood flow (CBF), yet the relations between sex, limb blood flow, and MSNA reactivity to mental stress have not been...

OBJECTIVE To identify existing evidence on interagency collaboration between law enforcement, emergency services, statutory services and third sector agencies regarding people with mental ill health. DESIGN Systematic scoping review. Scoping reviews map particular research areas to identify research gaps. DATA SOURCES AND ELIGIBILITY ASSIA, CENTRAL, the Cochrane Library databases, Criminal ...

BACKGROUND As part of the ROAMER (ROAdmap for MEntal health Research in Europe) project, aiming to create an integrated European roadmap for mental health research, we set out to map the hitherto unmapped territory of public mental health research in Europe. METHODS Five electronic databases (CINAHL, Health Management, Medline, PsycINFO, Social Services Abstracts) were used for identifying pu...

Tactile relief maps are used by visually impaired people to acquire mental representation of space, but they retain important limitations (limited amount of information, braille text, etc.). Interactive maps may overcome these limitations. However, usability of these two types of maps had never been compared. It is then unknown whether interactive maps are equivalent or even better solutions th...

We argue that A*, the popular technique for path-finding for NPCs in games, suffers from three problems that are pertinent to game worlds: (a) the grid maps often restrict the optimality of the paths, (b) A* paths exhibit wall-hugging behavior, and (c) optimal paths are more predictable. We present a new algorithm, VRA*, that varies map-resolution as needed, and repeatedly calls A*. We also pre...

Map makers have for many years searched for a way to construct cartograms, maps in which the sizes of geographic regions such as countries or provinces appear in proportion to their population or some other analogous property. Such maps are invaluable for the representation of census results, election returns, disease incidence, and many other kinds of human data. Unfortunately, to scale region...

This paper presents a multi-agent model to support decisionmaking in organizations. The model is characterized by being interactive, distributed, and incremental and by the use of cognitive maps to represent the knowledge of decision-making actors. The main proposition is to consider the context of concepts belonging to cognitive maps in a way that it represents agent’s mental states, allowing ...

Semantic maps are usually assumed to describe a universal arrangement of different conceptual situations in a speaker's mind as determined by perceived relations of similarity between these conceptual situations. This paper provides a number of arguments that challenge this view, based on various types of evidence from processes of semantic change and synchronic implicational universals. The mu...

The present note overviews our recent construction of real Gromov-Witten theory in arbitrary genera for many real symplectic manifolds, including the odd-dimensional projective spaces and the renowned quintic threefold, its properties, and its connections with real enumerative geometry. Our construction introduces the principle of orienting the determinant of a differential operator relative to...