Continuity – our Achilles' heel

Diabesity: the 'Achilles Heel' of our modernized society.

Diabesity – a term coined by Dr. Francine Kaufman to cover a constellation of signs, including obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes – is ready to become the largest rapidly escalating pandemic in human history. The statistics are grim and shocking – diabesity affects more than one billion people worldwide, including 100 million Americans, and 50% of Americans over the a...

Cancer's new Achilles' heel?

Claims to the discovery of cancers Achilles’ heel are multiple, even clichéd. Analogies to this Greek myth usually refer to the fall of the undefeatable, yet the novelty behind the legend is that a seemingly immortal foe could be toppled by something so innocuous as his heel. This may be the case for cancer and a non-coding mitochondrial RNA that as yet has no known physiological function or me...

Ideology: Criminology's Achilles' Heel?

The Achilles ’ Heel of CyberDefense

The Achilles' Heel of QBF

In recent years we have seen significant progress in the area of Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving and its applications. As a new challenge, the community is now moving to investigate whether similar advances can be made in the use of Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF). QBF provides a natural framework for capturing problem solving and planning in multiagent settings. However, contrarily to s...