The stag hunt (or assurance game) is a simple game that has been used as a prototype of a variety of social coordination problems (ranging from the social contract to the adoption of technical standards). Players have the option to either use a superior cooperative strategy whose payoff depends on the other players’ choices or use an inferior strategy whose payoff is independent of what other p...

Any artifact in the HRV series may interfere with analysis of the signal. The artifacts within HRV signals can be divided into technical and physiological artifacts. The technical artifacts can include missing or additional QRS complex detections and error in R-wave occurrence time. These artifacts may be due to measurement artifacts or the computational algorithm. The physiological artifacts, ...

A complete family history is critical to the assessment of genetic risk of hereditary diseases. Kinsys0 is a family history-tracking program used by genetic counselors and healthcare professionals for risk assessment. A pedigree, which is a graphic drawing of family history, is the most important component in such a program. In this project, we analyzed the current pedigree displays of Kinsys0 ...

Pen pressure is an input channel typically available in tablet pen device. To date, little attention has been paid to the use of pressure in the domain of graphical interaction, its usage largely limited to drawing and painting program, typically for varying brush characteristic such as stroke width, opacity and color. In this paper, we explore the use of pressure in 3D curve drawing. The act o...

" hot " item, frequently debated in the wireless community these days, is whether there is such a thing as a " fourth generation " (4G) of wireless systems that is likely to appear after the successful deployment of the current third-generation (3G) systems, say five to ten years from now. This new generation of wireless systems is supposed to complement and replace 3G systems, as well as secon...

for a proposal. To add relevance to the writing exercise, the use of abstracts from research articles in the LIS literature as exemplars for modeling the writing process introduces meaning into the overall learning process. Abstracts perform several major functions in the dissemination of scholarly, professional, and technical literature—all of which provide a rationale for students to learn to...

E government has often been associated to New Public Management reforms, and as consequence often conceived as tools to improve service delivery and efficiency in the public sector. Following similar assumptions the Italian Ministry of Justice has launched a number of e-government projects to reorganize the judiciary. Results have been mixed. To discuss these results the paper introduces the no...

In order to address contemporary issues economics and decision sciences need to expand their empirical relevance by introducing more and more realistic (thus more complex) assumptions in their models. One of the most interesting research directions in the field of public economics is the attempt to introduce political constraints, interest groups and collusion effects explicitly (J.J. Laffont, ...

A structural contingency theory of IS/IT functional structure is presented which relates IS/IT functional structure to IS/IT performance contingent both on the types of economy the organization expects from the IS/IT function and the volatility of the competitive environment. Three types of economies are articulated which impact the appropriateness of the IS/IT functional structure profile: eco...

Kapova Cave (Shulgan-Tash) is located in Bashkortostan, the Southern Urals, in the Shulgan Tash Reserve on the Belaya River. Its coordinates are 53°02’ N; 57°03’ W. It is a large karst three-level system of chambers, galleries and wells having the total length of 3323 m with vertical amplitude of 165 m. The karst system is characterized by large chambers and galleries, great dynamics of microcl...