The input is a bipartite graph G = (A ∪B ,E) where each vertex u ∈ A ∪B ranks its neighbors in a strict order of preference. This is the same as an instance of the stable marriage problem with incomplete lists. A matching M∗ is said to be popular if there is no matching M such that more vertices are better off in M than in M∗. Any stable matching of G is popular, however such a matching is a mi...

In this paper, we propose a new explanation for why certain cultural products outperform their peers to achieve widespread success. We argue that products’ positioning within feature space significantly predicts their popular success. Using tools from computer science, we construct a novel data set that allows us to test how the musical features of nearly 27,000 songs from Billboard’s Hot 100 c...

Triangular discrimination, Jensen-Shannon divergence, and the square of the Hellinger distance, are popular distance functions for mixture models, and are known to be similar. Here we expound upon their equivalence in terms of their functional forms after transformations, factorizations, and series expansions, and in terms of the geometry of their contours. The ratio between these distances is ...

traditional leveraging statistical methods for analyzing today’s large volumes of spatial data have high computational burdens. to eliminate the deficiency, relatively modern data mining techniques have been recently applied in different spatial analysis tasks with the purpose of autonomous knowledge extraction from high-volume spatial data. fortunately, geospatial data is considered a proper s...

in this article we study the attitudes of iranian cinema audience toward popular films. affected by classic elite cultural theories, popular culture and consumers of popular culture have been humiliated for many years. according to this theories, audience of popular magazines, popular music, popular films and other popular culture products, have been considered as passive victims. cultural stud...

According to a survey, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents were the most popular analgesic used in South Africa for management of peri-operative pain, acute post-operative pain and chronic pain. The most popular non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents are flunixin meglumine and phenylbutazone. The most popular opioid type drug is buprenorphine, followed by morphine. In the peri-operative sett...

World population growth and food demand have been two major elements leading to the expansion of animal and fish production. Recently, many efforts advocated the extension of intensive fish farming to optimize the need for animal protein (Hussein et al., 2013). In Korea, aquaculture has made rapid development in a short period of time, and many fish farms have been established in order to fulfi...

Since 2001, Mexico has been designing, legislating, and implementing a major health-system reform. A key component was the creation of Seguro Popular, which is intended to expand insurance coverage over 7 years to uninsured people, nearly half the total population at the start of 2001. The reform included fi ve actions: legislation of entitlement per family affi liated which, with full implemen...

Despite John B. Watson's considerable importance in the history of psychology and his celebrity status during the first part of the twentieth century, substantive discussions of his life, work, and views are now relatively rare. Passing references to Watson still appear in scholarly and popular works (e.g., Koch & Leary, 1985; M. Levin, 1987), but in-depth analyses, when they can be found, are ...

OBJECTIVES 'Farmácia Popular' (FP) programme was launched in 2004, expanded in 2006 and changed the cost sharing for oral hypoglycaemic (OH) and antihypertensive (AH) medicines in 2009 and in 2011. This paper describes patterns of usage and continuity of coverage for OH and AH medicines following changes in patient cost sharing in the FP. STUDY DESIGN Interrupted time series study using retro...