The Microsoft version of the game Minesweeper has a known bug that makes sequences of boards appear again after generating thousands of boards, in a cycle, disturbing the random nature of the game. This article exposes the results of a research made in 2004, as well as the subsequent secondary discoveries, like the existence of boards made of combinations of mines from two consecutive boards of...

In India, there are various boards at the 10+2 level, including the CBSE, the ICSE and the state boards, each conducting a separate examination. The syllabus, marking scheme and difficulty level of these examinations may vary across the boards, and also within each board across years. Suppose we wish to compare the scores of students from different boards. In order to make this possible, we nee...

Australia does not have varroa mite. However, we investigated whether modified hive bottom boards used for varroa mite management in honey bee colonies had other benefits, for honey production. We compared a number of colony parameters between hives fitted with tube, mesh and conventional (solid) bottom boards in two locations in eastern Australian, Richmond NSW and Castlemaine Victoria. Coloni...

This paper documents several significant correlations between the variability of stock returns, the structure of director compensation and the gender diversity of corporate boards. In a crosssectional sample of boards of directors of 1024 publicly traded firms in fiscal year 1998, we find three robust results: (1) firms facing more variability in their stock returns have fewer women on their bo...

This article investigates the relationship between the characteristics of medical licensing boards and the frequency with which boards discipline physicians. Specifically, we take advantage of variation in the structure of medical licensing boards between 1993 and 2003 to determine the effect of organizational and budgetary independence, public oversight, and resource constraints on rates of ph...

Due to the increasing complexity of circuit boards, testing loaded boards is becoming prohibitively expensive and more difficult to perform. Board complexity has resulted from the rapid development of surface-mount technology and from the use of multilayered boards. Finer pin spacing and the use of double-sided boards also have contributed to the increased cost and difficulty of traditional tes...

This paper argues that a discussion board as an integral part of e-learning is a learning object worthy of scrutiny. It explores how current praxis and theory on learning objects can be used to improve the development and application of discussion boards. Implications for discussion board as learning objects are discussed. They include: (1) accessing learning objects via discussion boards, (2) ...