How do people make decisions about their preferences? We examine how others’ opinions affect one’s decisions. In Experiment 1, we found that popular online news stories were not inherently interesting, suggesting that something other than the content of the stories was driving people’s liking of the stories. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated information about how previous readers rated the...

Painful os intermetatarseum is a very rare condition. Gruber et al. first described os intermetatarseum in 1877. This condition is usually asymptomatic. One should consider painful os intermetatarseum as being a possible cause of dorsal foot pain in athletes. Surgical excision of the os intermetatarseum should be considered for those patients failing conservative treatment. Here, a literature r...

Digital signal processing (DSP) technology is the core of many modern application areas. Computer vision, data compression, speech recognition and synthesis, digital audio and cameras, are a few of the many fields where DSP technology is essential. Although Moore’s law continues to hold in the semiconductor industry, the computational demands of modern DSP algorithms outstrip the available comp...

Quantized Versions Jinghu Chen and Marc P.C. Fossorier Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA e-mail:jinghu,[email protected] AbstractIn this paper, we analyze the performance of two improved BP-based decoding algorithms for LDPC codes, namely the normalized BP-based and the offset BP-based algorithms, by means of density evolution. The num...

AbstractIn this study, the stress analysis of YBCO/CeO2/YSZ/CeO2/Ni architextured materials under cryogenic conditions was carried out for coated conductor applications. YBCO/CeO2/YSZ/CeO2 multilayer films were fabricated on Ni tape substrate using reel-to-reel sol-gel and Pulse Laser Deposition (PLD) systems. The microstructural evolution of high temperature superconducting YBCO film and buffe...

Many pathways in fungi are regulated in part by protein phosphorylation, but there are only a few studies that characterize fungal phosphoproteomes. Willger et al. (p. 474 – 485) have analyzed the phosphoproteome of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans in its filamentous form. More than 15,906 phosphorylation sites on 2,896 proteins were identified. GO term enrichment analysis of proteins...

On March 21, 1983, the program committee for the 9th Symposium on Operating System Principles, having read the eighty-three papers submitted, selected sixteen for presentation at the symposium. This acceptance ratio of about one in five approximates those of past SOSPs, although the number of submissions was somewhat lower than in recent years. Several members of the program committee found it ...

If you only have time to read 1 article this month in Canadian Family Physician (CFP), I would recommend Dr Jeff Sutherland’s piece entitled “Physician-assisted suicide from a patient’s perspective,” which appears on page 115.1 Dr Sutherland, who has had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for the past 8 years, talks frankly about his life and his choices, and how they have changed. And he talks abou...

One of the many techniques which has recently been employed for filtering spam is one described in the Linux Journal article A Statistical Approach to the Spam Problem [Robinson]. This technique incorporates ideas from the seminal article A Plan For Spam [Graham] as well as R.A. Fisher's technique for combining p-values by means of the chi-square distribution [Hedges & Olkin]. The technique pre...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest sustained arrhythmia globally and results in significantly increased morbidity and mortality including a fivefold risk of stroke. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) constitutes approximately half of all AF cases and is thought to represent an early stage of the disease. This intermittent form of atrial arrhythmia can be a challenge to identify and as ...