«What would Sophia Loren do?» is a question that Nancy Kulik, daughter of Italian immigrants, asked herself many times in her life. Even at young age, has served not only as compass for important choices, but also to create an emotional connection with heritage. Through its personal approach, the documentary makes us understand how Kulik thus representative nostalgic migrant’s view Italian-Amer...

The new data presented in this issue (1) estimating the 2007 economic cost of diabetes in the U.S. at $174 billion are sobering. One in five health care dollars is spent caring for someone with diabetes, and one in ten dollars spent on health care is attributable to diabetes and its complications. In addition to the $116 billion in excess medical expenditures, the loss to the nation in economic...

Several researchers have proposed effective approaches for binary classification in the last years. We can easily extend some of those techniques to multi-class. Notwithstanding, some other powerful classifiers (e.g., SVMs) are hard to extend to multi-class. In such cases, the usual approach is to reduce the multi-class problem complexity into simpler binary classification problems (divide-and-...

We suggest an approach to sequencing based on a \divide and conquer method". This approach eliminates the need for solving a hard NP-complete problem which arises when using traditional sequencing techniques. At the present time this algorithm has not been tried out in the lab. However, computer simulations using parts of the human genome provide some encouraging data.

This paper consists of three sections. In the first section an efficient method is used for decomposition of the canonical matrices associated with repetitive structures. to this end, cylindrical coordinate system, as well as a special numbering scheme were employed. In the second section, divide and conquer method have been used for eigensolution of these structures, where the matrices are in ...

Covering and divide-and-conquer are two wellestablished search techniques for top-down in­ duction of propositional theories However, for top-down induction of logic programs, only covering has been formalized and used extensively In this work, the divide-and-conquer technique is formalized as well and compared to the covering technique in a logic program­ ming framework Covering works by repea...