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How to Cope with NP-Completeness

NP-complete problems arise frequently in practice. In today’s lecture, we discuss various approaches for coping with NP-complete problems. When NP-completeness was discovered, algorithm designers could take it as an excuse. It is true, that I have not found an efficient algorithm. However, nobody will ever find an efficient algorithm (unless P = NP). Nowadays, NP-completeness is considered a ch...

How to cope with climate’s complexity?

Climate exhibits a vast range of dissipative structures. Some have characteristic times of a few days; others evolve on thousands of years. All these structures are interdependent; in other words, they communicate. It is often considered that the only way to cope with climate complexity is to integrate the equations of atmospheric and oceanic motion with the finer possible mesh. Is this the sol...

How to Cope with a Turbulent Environment

How Cells Cope with Obesity

Currently, more than 2.7 million American adults are diagnosed as obese each year. Many of these people suffer from a disorder known as metabolic syndrome, which includes symptoms like hypertension and elevated blood cholesterol. They are also at risk for developing additional diseases such as heart disease and diabetes mellitus. In fact, obesity may be a major cause of all these problems ... t...

Users as Designers: How People Cope with Poor HCI Design in Computer-Based Medical Devices

In this paper we examine how users interact with a computer-based infusion device adapted for terbutaline infusion to treat preterm labor in women experiencing high-risk pregnancies. This study examines (a) the human-computer interaction (HCI) deficiencies in the device as related to this context of use, (b) how the device characteristics increase the potential for error, and (c) the tailoring ...