Objective data contribute to the school start time debate

When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy? NA-ACCORD Stimulates the Debate

One of the most highly discussed and publicized HIV-related presentations at the recent Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy/Infectious Diseases Society of America (ICAAC/IDSA) joint meeting was the study from the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD), a collaboration of 22 North American prospective clinical cohorts, examining t...

When to start antiretroviral therapy? NA-ACCORD stimulates the debate.

One of the most highly discussed and publicized HIV-related presentations at the recent Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy/Infectious Diseases Society of America (ICAAC/IDSA) joint meeting was the study from the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design (NA-ACCORD), a collaboration of 22 North American prospective clinical cohorts, examining t...

Using objective values to start multiple objective linear programming algorithms

We introduce in this paper a new starting mechanism for multiple-objective linear programming (MOLP) algorithms. This makes it possible to start an algorithm from any solution in objective space. The original problem is first augmented in such a way that a given starting solution is feasible. The augmentation is explicitly or implicitly controlled by one parameter during the search process, whi...

What Can Antitrust Contribute to the Network Neutrality Debate?

What might Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) and Multi-objective Optimisation (MOO) Contribute to Phylogenetics and the Total Evidence Debate

Evolutionary relationships among species are usually (i) illustrated by means of a phylogeny and (ii) inferred by optimising some measure of fitness, such as the total evolutionary distance between species (given the tree), the parsimony (number of different assumptions required to fit the data to the tree), the likelihood of the tree (given an evolutionary model and a data set) or the posterio...