Activity data accumulated in real life, e.g. in terrorist activities and fraudulent customer contacts, presents special structural and semantic complexities. However, it may lead to or be associated with significant business impacts. For instance, a series of terrorist activities may trigger a disaster to the society, large amounts of fraudulent activities in social security program may result ...

Paleoparasitology is the application of conventional or molecular investigative techniques to archeological samples in order to reveal parasitic infection patterns among past populations. Although pioneering studies already have reported key paleoparasitological findings around the world, the same sorts of studies had not, until very recently, been conducted in sufficient numbers in Korea. Mumm...

The creation of mathematical, as well as qualitative (or rule-based), models is diffiult, time-consuming, and expensive. Recent developments in evolutionary computation hold out the prospect that, fir many problems of practical import, machine learning techniques can be used to discover useful models automatically. These prospects are particularly bright, we believe, for such automated discover...

Events that originate through internal mental operations such as reasoning, imagination, and thought may be more colored by or connected to one's current mood than are those that emanate from external sources. If so, then a shift in mood state, between the occasions of event encoding and event retrieval, should have a greater adverse impact on one's memory for internal than for external events....

Lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] and its measurement, structure and function, the impact of ethnicity and environmental factors, epidemiological and genetic associations with vascular disease, and new prospects in drug development have been extensively examined throughout this Thematic Review Series on Lp(a). Studies suggest that the kidney has a role in Lp(a) catabolism, and that Lp(a) levels are incre...

In experiments, subjects are often not indifferent among all sources of uncertainty; between two prospects yielding the same distribution of monetary rewards, they may strictly prefer one over the other. We formulate a special case of α-maxmin expected utility theory in a Savage setting, show that every decision maker perceives multiple subjective sources, and that source-utilities are rank dep...

Introduction Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is a rare X-linked disorder which, in its fully expressed form, is recognised by the clinical triad of combined immune deficiency, thrombocytopenia, and eczema.' An increased risk of malignancy has also been reported, with an incidence of about 12% in some series and susceptibility, in particular, to acute leukaemia, lymphoma, and solid tumours of the centr...

Inflammation is a normal, robust physiological process. It can also be viewed as a complex system that senses and attempts to resolve homeostatic perturbations initiated from within the body (for example, in autoimmune disease) or from the outside (for example, in infections). Virtually all acute and chronic diseases are either driven or modulated by inflammation. The complex interplay between ...

Many have the intuition that for a conditional to be true, there must exist some kind of connection between its antecedent and its consequent. We investigated experimentally the prospects for spelling out the connection in terms of inference. Participants were shown or given by description a series of fourteen numbered color patches ranging from blue to green. They were then asked to evaluate c...

YERCEPTIONS OF A GLOBAL CRISIS have been rampant for over a decade. Third world nations fear their development prospects are being undermined by a series of devastating external shocks. Unprecedentedly high levels of foreign debt service, coupled with climbing interest rates and falling export revenues, have forced many developing countries to cut imports, restrict public-sector spending, curta...