|Blackjack or twenty-one is a card game where the player attempts to beat the dealer, by obtaining a sum of card values that is equal to or less than 21 so that his total is higher than the dealer's. The probabilistic nature of the game makes it an interesting testbed problem for learning algorithms, though the problem of learning a good playing strategy is not obvious. Learning with a teacher ...

| Blackjack or twenty-one is a card game where the player attempts to beat the dealer, by obtaining a sum of card values that is equal to or less than 21 so that his total is higher than the dealer's. The probabilistic nature of the game makes it an interesting testbed problem for learning algorithms, though the problem of learning a good playing strategy is not obvious. Learning with a teacher...

Shu e a deck of n cards numbered 1 through n. Deal out the rst c cards into a hand. A player then repeatedly chooses one of the cards from the hand, inserts it into a binary search tree, and then adds the next card from deck to the hand (if the deck is empty). When the player nally runs out of cards, how deep can the search tree be? This problem is motivated by concurrent insertions by c proces...

We present a complete solution to a card game with historical origins. Our analysis exploits convexity properties in the payoff matrix, allowing this discrete game to be resolved by continuous methods. In this paper, we analyze a variant of the card-game Le Her, which has a long history in the mathematical literature (cf. Section 18.6 of [7]). The authentic two-player 52-card version is reporte...

Three different quantum cards which are non-orthogonal quantum bits are sent to two different players, Alice and Bob, randomly. Alice receives one of the three cards, and Bob receives the remaining two cards. We find that Bob could know better than Alice does on guessing Alice’s card, no matter what Bob chooses to measure his two cards collectively or separately. We also find that Bob’s best st...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of a pro-poor nation-wide health card program, which provides free basic health care at public health facilities in Indonesia. To quantify the effect of the program, it departs from the traditional regression-based approach in the literature. It employs propensity score matching to reduce the selection bias due to non-random health card distribution. The s...

In 1998 the government of Ticino decided to work out a plan aimed at "creating an overall set of rules that will encourage the proper utilization of health structures and services". Modern IT management has been pinpointed as the best strategy tool to achieve the targets. After an intensive process of debating the issue the health care partners decided to focus on an electronic health card. Sin...

APBA baseball is a sophisticated baseball simulation game. Each major league player is represented by a card, which has numbers on it that reflect his performance in a particular season. Two people play a game by rolling dice and looking on their players’ cards to see what is the outcome of the roll of the dice. In this article, we use Markov chains to analyze certain aspects of this game. For ...

Advances in the growth of hitherto unculturable soil bacteria have emphasized the requirement for rapid bacterial identification methods. Due to the slow-growing strategy of microcolony-forming soil bacteria, successful fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) requires an rRNA enrichment step for visualization. In this study, catalyzed reporter deposition (CARD)-FISH was employed as an alterna...