The war on cancer was declared 40 years ago. While the potential for reducing deaths is increasing, so are the costs. Finding the right prioritization in our complex world is difficult; we present some interesting facts regarding other wars and aspects of society that are worth reflecting on as we struggle to find the right balance.

Issues in sentence categorization according to language is fundamental for NLP, especially in document processing. In fact, with the growing amount of multilingual text corpus data becoming available , sentence categorization, leading to multilingual text structure, opens a wide range of applications in multilingual text analysis such as information retrieval or preprocessing of multilingual sy...

article 63 of islamic penal law defines adultery as: “copulation of a man with a woman who is essentially unlawful (ḥarām) to him, although in dubur (back), in cases other than misapprehended consummation.” clause 1 of article 1-221 of the new suggested bill, confirming the content of the above article, has also mentioned: “copulation is effected by the insertion of a male’s sex organ into a fe...

The aim of privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) algorithms is to extract relevant knowledge from large amounts of data while protecting at the same time sensitive information. An important aspect in the design of such algorithms is the identification of suitable evaluation criteria and the development of related benchmarks. Recent research in the area has devoted much effort to determine a tra...

P rivacy is very important. Whatever it is. The debate on privacy is notable for the lack of agreement — what is it for, is it a good or a bad thing, a right or a preference? As philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson put it, “Perhaps the most striking thing about the right to privacy is that nobody seems to have any clear idea of what it is.”1 In a classic legal paper, William Prosser dismissed it a...