Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third most common cause of cancer-related mortality (World Health Organization. Mortality database, 2010). According to the most recent nationwide Japanese registration data, primary liver cancer ranks fourth for men and sixth for women as cause of death from malignant neoplasm (Journal of Health and Welfare Statis...

The traditional forms of role-playing include tabletop roleplaying, larp and online role-playing. In this paper I describe a fourth form, pervasive role-playing, which often follows many conventions of larp, but break out of the magic circle of gameplay in order to interact with surrounding society. The central pleasures of pervasive role-playing are related to playing for real, with the enviro...

Epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disorder, affecting more than 65 million people around the world It is estimated that 1 in 26 Americans will develop epilepsy in their lifetime. Here we look at how web resources like PubMed, social media data and news can be used to index the awareness of this deadly disease. We use web crawlers to index epilepsy related keywords and then cluster...

Minutes after two hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept.11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration stopped all flights from U.S. airports. It marked the first time that air traffic came to a halt nationwide. Soon after, a third plane crashed into the Pentagon, and a fourth plane thought to be headed for another target in Washington, D.C., crashed into ...

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is one of the defi ning issues of the 21 century. AIDS is the leading cause of death in Africa and the fourth-leading cause of death globally. UNAIDS estimated that 33.2 million people were living with HIV in 2007. More than twenty million people have already died from AIDS and sixty-fi ve million will face death over the next twenty years. The majority of these live in th...

A simulation framework for vehicle aerodynamics using up to 10 billion fully-unstructured numerical elements has been developed on the world fastest class supercomputer called the “K computer”. The K computer is installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, consisting of over 80,000 processors of a distributed memory architecture with its peak performance o...

IN Britain, since the passage of the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act, gambling has rightly been termed a growth industry. In the last annual report of the Churches' Council on Gambling, gambling's annual turnover was estimated as some ?2,230 million. One leading expert places Britain foremost among European nations for its per capita gambling expenditure, and fourth in the world league, only excell...

The RTA list of open problems was created in 1991 by Jean-Pierre Jouannaud, Jan Willem Klop, and the rst author [19] on the occasion of the Fourth International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA). Updated lists have since been published at RTA '93 [20] and RTA '95 [21]. Bending to these electronic times, we have recently placed a combined list on the world-wide web at htt...