In his celebrated book On Number and Games (Academic Press, New-York, 1976), J. H. Conway introduced twelve versions of compound games. We analyze these twelve versions for the Node-Kayles game on paths. For usual disjunctive compound, Node-Kayles has been solved for a long time under normal play, while it is still unsolved under misère play. We thus focus on the ten remaining versions, leaving...

background: sociodemographic characteristics of nurses who work in hospitals may impact on their quality of life. this study aimed to assess the relationship between quality of life of nursing staff with chronic nonspecific low back and their sociodemographic characteristics.   materials and methods: this study was a cross section study. a total of 119 nurses were participated in this study. th...

The rate of erroneous conviction of innocent criminal defendants is often described as not merely unknown but unknowable. There is no systematic method to determine the accuracy of a criminal conviction; if there were, these errors would not occur in the first place. As a result, very few false convictions are ever discovered, and those that are discovered are not representative of the group as...

The interest in a further pruning of the set of frequent patterns that can be drawn from real-life datasets is growing up. In fact, it is a quite survival reflex towards providing a manageably-sized and reliable knowledge. This fact is witnessed by the proliferation of what is called concise representation of frequent patterns. In this paper, we propose an exact concise representation that expl...