People v. Simpson, dubbed by many as "the trial of the century," was an expensive court case that taxed Los Angeles County's coffers. Many creative, and occasionally unconstitutional, proposals were suggested to lessen the county's hardship, but none were implemented. While the Simpson case may have captured the nation's attention, it was a poor justification to radically alter how the courts' ...

Th e Impact of Spoilers on Peace Processes and Peacebuilding M ceasefires and peace agreements in civil wars are initially unsuccessful and give way to renewed violence. In other cases, peace processes have become interminably protracted: lengthy and circular negotiations in which concessions are rare and even if agreements are reached they falter at the implementation phase. State-building and...

Arteriovenous fistulas are widely used for hemodialysis patients with end-stage renal failure. Due to the lack of suitable veins because of the arteriovenous fistulas previously opened in the upper extremity, alternative access routes are being tested. Few complications of long-term alternative arteriovenous fistulas have been reported in the literature. We report the results of surgical repair...

A growing body of studies has documented the pathological influence of impaired alternative splicing (AS) events on numerous diseases, including cancer. In addition, the generation of alternatively spliced isoforms is frequently noted to result in drug resistance in many cancer therapies. To gain comprehensive insights into the impacts of AS events on cancer biology and therapeutic developments...

This paper presents a novel approach to reduce dynamic power in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) by reducing glitches during routing. It finds alternative routes for early-arriving signals so that signal arrival times at look-up tables are aligned. We developed an efficient algorithm to find routes with target delays and then built a glitch-aware router aiming at reducing dynamic power. T...

Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent years have also witnessed large-scale e↵orts to combat tra cking, spearheaded by Mexico’s conservative PAN party. This study examines the direct and spillover e↵ects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Regression discontinuity estimates show that drug-related violence increases substantially after clos...

The rush of nowadays life turned travelling into a means to an end. Commuting people follow the same routes over and over and know less about the places they pass by. In this paper we present our approach of an interactive location-based audio application that invites users to explore alternative routes by sharing location-based song playlists. Therefore a prototypical smartphone application is...

Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent years have also witnessed large-scale efforts to combat trafficking, spearheaded by Mexico’s conservative PAN party. This study examines the direct and spillover effects of Mexican policy towards the drug trade. Regression discontinuity estimates show that drug-related violence increases substantially after ...

This paper addresses the problem of selecting route to a given destination on a load map under a dynamic environment. The proposed solution is using a genetic algorithm adopting viral infection. The method is to use viruses as domain specific knowledge. A part of an arterial road is regarded as a virus. We generate a population of viruses in addition to a population of routes. Crossover and inf...

Introduction With the decline in the overland Silk Routes in the fifth century AD, traders from West Asia looked increasingly to the sea for alternative routes to China, and the silk they so highly valued. By the seventh century, with new advances in rigging technology and celestial navigation, they had successfully mastered the long seaborne journey, establishing the transoceanic sailing route...