Officials try to allay fears

Elected officials.

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Suppose we are given a graph G = (V,E). We would like to solve some cut problem (i.e. min-cut, s-t min cut, sparsest cut) and so on. The running time of algorithms for these problems typically depends on the number of edges in the graph, which might be as high as O(n). Is there any way to approximate our graph with a sparse graph G′ in which all cuts are approximately of the same size? We will ...

Health officials seek ways to halt AIDS.

On 4 January the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) convened a workshop a t its Atlanta headquarters to assess the options for halting the spread of the new disease called acquired immunodeficien­ cy syndrome o r , more commonly, AIDS. The main topic of discussion was the possibility that the disease, which may kill u p to 70 percent of the patients within 2 years of diagnosis, might b e spread ...

Communicating with Elected Officials

ITE JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2005 ONE OF THE MOST FRUSTRATING aspects of being a transportation professional, especially one with an engineering background, is the seeming reluctance of elected officials to readily accept the recommendations of highly qualified technical staffs. This feature is intended to help transportation technical staffs better understand the context within which elected officia...

Dealing with Futile Fears

بدون ترس شانس کمتری برای رسیدن به دوران تکاملی داریم. ترس منطقی به ما می گوید که از چه چیز پرهیز کنیم، به ما کمک می کند که با مشکلات روبرو شویم و ما را در مقابل خطرات حقبقی محافظت می کند. در طرف دیگر آن نوع ترس هائی که از مقوله ترسهای مرضی است، غیرمنطقی می باشد و آثار فیزیکی و روحی بی شماری را باعث می گردد.