economic situation in Japan and the macro policies they have followed. He presents his own view of desirable policy changes. Second is a summary of banking problems, including non-performing loans, bank failures and insolvencies. This, the longest section of the paper, comments on the policies and actions to deal with financial problems. Committee (Japan). The report correctly distinguishes bet...

This study was carried out to determine the psychometric properties of Templer Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), a tool, designed to assess the death anxiety. Our sample comprised 106 nurses who were selected from two hospitals in Tehran, Iran, using a convenience sampling method and were then assessed using the Templer Death Anxiety Scale (DAS), Reasons for Death Fear Scale (RDFS), Death Obsession Sc...

A growing body of work in games research, both generative and analytic, seeks to characterize the relationship between a player’s understanding of an interactive narrative and her options for action within it. This paper provides several definitions that collectively serve as a basis for a model of the user’s comprehension of an unfolding story in a game. Central to this approach, we define the...

Zusammenfassung. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Verfahren zur nutzergeführten 3D-Visualisierung von Strukturen innerhalb medizinischer Volumendatensätze vorgestellt. Das Verfahren nutzt das a-priori-Wissen des Anwenders über die Lage der interessierenden Struktur und berechnet davon ausgehend automatisch eine initiale Transferfunktion für die direkte Volumenvisualisierung mittels Volume Rendering. ...

We connect high-dimensional subset selection and submodular maximization. Our results extend the work of Das and Kempe (2011) from the setting of linear regression to arbitrary objective functions. For greedy feature selection, this connection allows us to obtain strong multiplicative performance bounds on several methods without statistical modeling assumptions. We also derive recovery guarant...

"Neuroreductionism" is the tendency to reduce complex mental phenomena to brain states, confusing correlation for physical causation. In this paper, we illustrate the dangers of this popular neuro-fallacy, by looking at an example drawn from the media: a story about "hypoactive sexual desire disorder" in women. We discuss the role of folk dualism in perpetuating such a confusion, and draw some ...

Blood is fundamental in several care treatments and surgeries, and plays a crucial role in the health care system. It is a limited resource, as it can be produced only by donors and its shelf life is short; thus, the blood donation (BD) system aims at providing adequate supply of blood bags to transfusion centers and hospitals. An effective collection of blood bags from donors is fundamental fo...