The longest common subsequence problem has been widely studied and used to find out the relationship between sequences. In this paper, we study the interleaving relationship between sequences, that is, we measure the relationship among three sequences, where two of those are interleaved in different ways and then the interleaved sequences are subsequently matched with the third remaining sequen...

I NSTITUTIONS that have been longtime rivals are merging. In Massachusetts, Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital have merged, and two of the state's largest health maintenance organizations (HMOs) — Harvard Community Health Plan and Pilgrim Health Care — have merged. In Philadelphia, Hahnemann Medical School and the Medical College of Pennsylvania have merged. Gla...

A widely publicized series of mergers has characterized the banking industry in recent years. Shareholder returns from these mergers have often been disappointing. This study finds delays in implementing potential operating savings and realizing benefits of scale economies may be one reason bank mergers have disappointing returns. We analyze a 200 branch network formed in a merger of four banks...

We present an efficient strategy for controlling a vast range of nonintegrable quantum many-body one-dimensional systems that can be merged with state-of-the-art tensor network simulation methods such as the density matrix renormalization group. To demonstrate its potential, we employ it to solve a major issue in current optical-lattice physics with ultracold atoms: we show how to reduce by abo...

This study uses eye-tracking to investigate how a brief exposure to the /ɪ/ /ɛ/ merger (between, e.g., pin and pen) affects subsequent lexical access. Merged and non-merged speakers gave instructions (e.g., “Click on the pencil”) for an object search task. Each voice was paired with a photo of a White or Black face in professional or non-professional dress, counter-balanced across participants....

This paper presents the possible production of hydrogen and anti-hydrogen from p±and e∓beams merged in a long vacuum chamber (about 2500 m). In such a configuration with a beam kinetic energy for the p±around 100 KeV, the two key parameters are the density of the e∓beam and the temperature of the merged beams. The production rate is computed for several parameter sets and it is shown that it is...

This paper presents a possible configuration for the production of hydrogen and anti-hydrogen from pbeam co-moving with ebeams merged in a long vacuum chamber. In such a configuration with a beam kinetic energy for the paround 100 KeV, the two key parameters are the density of the ebeam and the temperature of the merged beams. The production rate is computed for several parameter sets and it is...

The specification and implementation of Xcoop interfaces has received great attention in the last few years. In fact, the appropriate design of this system component is a key aspect for efficient and seamless co-operative management. In this context it is worth mentioning the EURESCOM P408 project and the standards of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) in Europe and the I...

T cells orchestrate the adaptive immune response, making them targets for immunotherapy. Although immunosuppressive therapies prevent disease progression, they also leave patients susceptible to opportunistic infections. To identify novel drug targets, we established a logical model describing T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling. However, to have a model that is able to predict new therapeutic appr...