Current free-to-play mobile games use various mechanics to control player progression. Through the game Jelly Splash, we study three such gating mechanics: occasional spikes in level difficulty, chapter gates every 20 levels, and a limited number of lives regenerating slowly over time. Using telemetry data from a quarter-million players, we explore how players approach each gating mechanic, foc...

Using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, Shapiro and Tombrello predicted that keV clusters containing a mixture of light and heavy atoms can eject a substantial fraction of their lighter atoms away from a target surface, a phenomenon they designate ``splash''. Recently, experiments by Diehnelt et al. and Brunelle et al. have shown evidence of ̄uorine and deuterium splash in systems of (NaF)nNa...

The movement of fecal pathogens from land to surface and ground water are of great interest because of the public health implications. Non-structural best management practices that control the timing, volume, and placement of animal manures are commonly used to limit opportunities for fecal pathogens to enter water bodies. Increased infiltration capacity, water and waste diversions, and vegetat...

The South African Animal Protection Law, which requires animals to be stunned before slaughter, allows certain exemptions to accommodate religious slaughter. The supporters of the Jewish method of slaughter (Shechita), in which animals are slaughtered without pre-stunning, claim that the bleed-out and some quality parameters are better than when the animals are stunned before slaughtering. In t...

MOTIVATION The goal of motif discovery is to detect novel, unknown, and important signals from biology sequences. In most models, the importance of a motif is equal to the sum of the similarity of every single position. In 2006, Song et al. introduced Aggregated Related Column Score (ARCS) measure which includes correlation information to the evaluation of motif importance. The paper showed tha...

Numerical simulations describing plunging breakers including the splash-up phenomenon are presented. The motion is governed by the classical, incompressible, two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation. The numerical modelling of this two-phase flow is based on a piecewise linear version of the volume of fluid method. Capillary effects are taken into account as a stress tensor computed from gradient...

Custom computing machines, a class of computational platforms consisting of recon gurable functional units with recon gurable interconnection networks, provide a middle-ground between specialpurpose hardware, which provide high execution speed, and general-purpose computers, which o er exibility. The Splash-2 system, one such custom computing machine, is an experimental platform for complex com...