In 1982, David spent a sabbatical year in Paris at the Laboratoire ofÉconométrie de l' ´ Ecole Polytechnique. He enjoyed so much his stay there that he came back to buy a flat. The atmosphere at the Laboratoire was a little bit unusual. The large and beautiful building, right in the center of Paris, was almost empty, left by its students who had moved outside Paris, and occupied by a handful of...

In this paper we introduce and explore a method for extracting low dimensional features from digitized recordings of music performance: The so called constant Q scale degree profiles are 12-dimensional vectors that reflect the prominence of the 12 scale degrees in a section of a piece of music they are extracted from. Here we study the type and amount of information that is captured in those pr...

Under the leadership of the heart project, “The 2nd Symposium of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Survival” was held with the cooperation of Hayatta Kal Derneği (Stay Alive Association) and İstanbul Kemerburgaz University Faculty of Pharmacy. The aim of the symposium was to find new approaches to increase the survival rate of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which is unfortunately less than 1%...

In the past years, a large set of new regulatory ncRNAs have been identified, but the number of experimentally verified targets is considerably low. Thus, computational target prediction methods are on high demand. Whereas all previous approaches for predicting a general joint structure have a complexity of O(n) running time and O(n) space, a more time and space efficient interaction prediction...

In 1976, Knuth [14] asked if the stable marriage problem (SMP) can be generalized to marriages consisting of 3 genders. In 1988, Alkan [1] showed that the natural generalization of SMP to 3 genders (3GSM) need not admit a stable marriage. Three years later, Ng and Hirschberg [16] proved that it is NP-complete to determine if given preferences admit a stable marriage. They further prove an analo...

For a two-sided multipartner matching model where agents are given by path-independent choice functions and no quota restrictions, Blair [7] had shown that stable matchings always exist and form a lattice. However, the lattice operations were not simple and not distributive. Recently Alkan [3] showed that if one introduces quotas together with a monotonicity condition then the set of stable mat...