We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2016 JCS prize is Viswanadh Madugula for his paper entitled ‘The ciliary membrane targeting by a ternary complex comprising transportin 1, Rab8 and the ciliary targeting signal’ (Madugula and Lu, 2016). The prize, $1000, is awarded annually to a junior researcher who is the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Bo...

A long-standing conjecture is that winner-take-all games such as patent races lead to the survival of risk-takers and the extinction of risk-averters. In many species a winner-take-all game determines the males' right to reproduce, and the same argument suggests that males will evolve to be risk-takers. Psychological and sociological evidence buttresses the argument that males are more risk-tak...

Pr(unique winner) Pr(unique winnerjchoice is good) Pr(choice is good): The probability that the choice is good is at least 1 ? 1 p N , by the previous claim. In such a case we are exactly in the same situation as in the original lottery. By assumption, this lottery guarantees unique winner with probability at least 2=3 for any set of`participants, hence this is certainly true for a random set o...

It is known that Dodgson’s rule is computationally very demanding. Tideman (1987) suggested an approximation to it but did not investigate how often his approximation selects the Dodgson winner. We show that under the Impartial Culture assumption the probability that the Tideman winner is the Dodgson winner tend to 1. However we show that the convergence of this probability to 1 is slow. We sug...

Within the EU FP6 Integrated Project WINNER, adaptive transmission is investigated as a key technology for boosting the spectral efficiency of a new radio interface for 4G systems. Adaptive allocation of time-frequency chunks in an OFDM-based system offers a significant potential, but also poses challenges. Within work package two of WINNER, we study critical issues such as the feasibility of a...

(mh-query 1000 100 ;Monte Carlo Inference ;CONCEPTS (define personstrength (mem (lambda (person) (gaussian 10 3)))) (define lazy (mem (lambda (person game) (flip 0.1)))) (define (teamstrength team game) (sum (map (lambda (person) (if (lazy person game) (/ (personstrength person) 2) (personstrength person))) team))) (define (winner team1 team2 game) (if (< (teamstrength team1 game) (teamstrength...

A unique architecture of winner search hardware has been developed using a novel neuron-like high functionality device called Neuron MOS transistor (or vMOS in short) [1,2] as a key circuit element. The circuits developed in this work can find the location of the maximum (or minimum) signal among a number of input data on the continuous-time basis, thus enabling real-time winner tracking as wel...