A non-uniform bin packing game is an N-person cooperative game, where the set N is defined by k bins of capacities b1, . . . , bk and n items of sizes a1, . . . , an. The objective function v of a coalition is the maximum total value of the items of that coalition which can be packed to the bins of that coalition. We investigate the taxation model of Faigle and Kern (1993) [2] and show that the...

Coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) is a fungal infection found in the southwestern US, northern Mexico, and some places in Central and South America. The fungus that causes it (Coccidioides immitis) is normally soil-dwelling but, if disturbed, becomes air-borne and infects the host when its spores are inhaled. It is thus natural to surmise that weather conditions that foster the growth and dispe...

Recognizing that technology is an important element of competitive strategy, the Frito-Lay Kern facility has invested substantially in both its people and technology. Reviews the technology and process applications, highlights organizational approaches and discusses implementation issues and success factors at the Kern facility. interconnected systems . . .’’ which allows coordination and colla...

Introduction The goal of this paper is to describe the idea of so called passive covert channels (PCC), which might be used by malware to leak information from the compromised hosts. This idea has been implemented in a proof-of-concept tool, called NUSHU. The primary goal of the PCC is to be as stealth as possible by not generating its own traffic at all. To be actually useful PCC should be com...

We evaluate the phase diagram of the four-site Kern-Frenkel patchy particle model [Kern, N.; Frenkel, D. J. Chem. Phys. 2003, 118, 9882.], a model representative of particles interacting via short-range orientational interactions, for several values of the interaction range. Similar to what has been found for isotropic potentials, the liquid phase disappears as an equilibrium phase for values o...

Here we describe discoal, a coalescent simulator able to generate population samples that include selective sweeps in a feature-rich, flexible manner. discoal can perform simulations conditioning on the fixation of an allele due to drift or either hard or soft sweeps-even those occurring a large genetic distance away from the simulated locus. discoal can simulate sweeps with recurrent mutation ...