Serving as an Authoritative Resource [President's Message]

Refining Web Authoritative Resource by Frequent Structures

The web resource is a rich collection of the dynamic information that are useful in various disciplines. There has also been much research work related to improving the quality of information searching in the web. However, most of the work is still inadequate to satisfy a diversified demand from users. In this paper, we exploit the hyperlinks in the web and propose a new approach called SFP in ...

Accepting Authoritative Decisions: Humans as Wary Cooperators

Resource Allocation via Message Passing

We propose a message-passing paradigm for resource allocation problems. This serves to connect ideas from the message passing literature, which has primarily grown out of the communications, statistical physics, and artificial intelligence communities, with a problem central to operations research. This also provides a new framework for decentralized management that generalizes price-based syst...

Additive-aggravated assays: an authoritative answer.

Immunoassay interferences are diverse in scope (1–8) and are the subject of several recent large-scale studies (9, 10), opinions, and editorials (6, 11). Most interferences originate from components of the sample (e.g., human antianimal antibodies, lipid, bilirubin, drug metabolites) that interact with assay reagents or the detection system. The latest interference to rear its ugly head has bee...

Vaidyavallabha: An Authoritative Work on Ayurveda Therapeutics

The text "Vaidyavallabha" is an authoritative work on Ayurvedic therapeutics written by Hastiruci, a Jain scholar. It belongs to the time period of 1673-1726 CE. Different physical and mental ailments with their treatments are addressed in the 274 verses spanned over eight chapters in this work. In this text many unique, special and simple medicinal preparations for different diseases are given...