Ang Cui, Angelos d. KeroMytis, And sAlvAtore J. stolfo Columbia University a whole. Yet skeptics (including some security professionals) argue that short-term expenditures on such “nonessential” items as analy sis should be curtailed, and that the results of any analyses should be kept secret. The return on investment in security isn’t visible in the short term, and, therefore, detractors feel ...

This article reviews some of the basic principles of genetics to provide a foundation for understanding the application of genetics to medical practice. Definitions of terms that appear here in italics can be found in the on-line, illustrated glossary at www.genetests.org.

This paper summarizes a series of three lectures the first author was invited to present at the NZMRI summer 2000 workshop, held in Kaikoura, New Zealand. Lecture 1 presents the goals of computational complexity theory. We discuss (a) what complexity provably can never deliver, (b) what it hopes to deliver but thus far has not, and finally (c) where it has been extremely successful in providing...

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One way to formally introduce counting principles is through countable sets, the cardinality of these sets, operations among sets, mappings between these sets and formal power series. We follow a high-level approach (also adopted in most introductory textbooks in Discrete Mathematics) as long it is well understood how we can technically formalize the arguments. Working from basic principles and...

background: medical education curriculum improvements can be a chieved by evaluating students' performance. medical students have to pass two undergraduate comprehensive examinations, basic science and preinternship, in iran. purpose: to measure validity of the students' mean score in comprehensive basic science exam (cbse) for predicting their performance in later curriculum phases. methods: t...