“Chase perfection, catch excellence”

Regenerating Perfection.

Beyond Skolem Chase: A Study of Finite Chase under Standard Chase Variant

The chase procedure is an indispensable tool for several database applications, where its termination guarantees decidability of these tasks. Most previous studies have focused on the skolem chase variant and its termination. It is known that the standard chase variant is more powerful in termination analysis provided a database is given. But all-instance termination analysis presents a challen...

Metabolomics cuts to the chase to chase the cuts.

type II diabetes5. However, like most proteases, a complete picture of the targets of DPP4 is lacking, which makes it difficult to anticipate metabolic function has prompted the development of a number of small-molecule inhibitors of DPP4, including sitagliptin (Januvia), which was recently approved by the US Food Proteases are enzymes that perform the basic task of cutting up other proteins an...

Testing perfection is hard

A graph property P is strongly testable if for every fixed > 0 there is a one-sided -tester for P whose query complexity is bounded by a function of . In classifying the strongly testable graph properties, the first author and Shapira showed that any hereditary graph property (such as P the family of perfect graphs) is strongly testable. A property is easily testable if it is strongly testable ...

Profiling, Performance, and Perfection

A profile is “a set of data often in graphic form portraying the significant features of something”. [Web88] Profiles can help us to quickly understand a person or entity better. In the development of computer-based applications, profiles are invaluable. They help us to understand the application – how it works, how well it works, whether it in fact works as we think it does, and whether it is ...