We propose a model for level-ups in Heroes of Might and Magic III, and give an O ( 1 ε ln ( 1 δ )) learning algorithm to estimate the probabilities of secondary skills induced by any policy in the end of the leveling-up process. We develop software and test our model in an experiment. The correlation coefficient between theory and practice is greater than 0.99. The experiment also indicates tha...

291 Dear Editor-in-Chief, We have read the paper of Song et al. [1] on frontonasal dysplasia deformity. It was an interesting discussion of an image that depicts a boy with a nose deformity, and it was reported that no basal encephalocele was observed. We would like to point out that we had a similar case of a girl with the same nose deformity. As in the report by Song et al., our patient also ...

structure of the target phenomenon, for various reasons researchers in this approach standardly provide a concrete model: an actual computer programmed so that (hopefully) it realizes the same (or a relevantly similar) abstract computational system as is realized by the cognitive systems under study. If the concrete model appears able to perform actual cognitive tasks in much the way people do,...

This paper explores the life insurance holdings from a general equilibrium perspective. Drawing on the data explored in Chambers, Schlagenhauf, and Young (2003), we calibrate an overlapping generations lifecycle economy with incomplete asset markets to match facts regarding the uncertainty of income and demographics. We then explore the implications for life insurance demand. We find that the a...

In this case report we provide evidence that supports a link between mycobacteria and Crohn's disease. The patient in question, KG, presented on three separate occasions over a ten years period with features suggestive of intestinal tuberculosis. He was treated successfully on each occasion with antimycobacterial drugs. When he presented a fourth time with the same symptoms, he was diagnosed wi...

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EDITOR,-In their study of subjects suffering from trimethylaminuria R Ayesh and colleagues observed that six of the 11 patients were unaware of their malodour.1 I report a small controlled study of the ability of normal, healthy subjects to detect the odour of trimethylamine. A mother complained that her 6 year old daughter had an unpleasant smell, which was present most of the time but was wor...

Theoreticians are interested in the way the world might be, seeking theories of ‘elegant and economical...mathematical form, in the expectation that they will prove the ones realized in nature’ (Polkinghorne, 1983, p. 9–10). Empiricists, on the contrary, prefer to know ‘The Way the World Is’ (as in Polkinghorne’s title). Ideally, our understanding advances by an interplay between the two. As Da...