A partially ordered set (X,≺) is a geometric containment order of a particular type if there is a mapping from X into similarly shaped objects in a finite-dimensional Euclidean space that preserves ≺ by proper inclusion. This survey describes most of what is presently known about geometric containment orders. Highlighted shapes include angular regions, convex polygons and circles in the plane, ...

Healthcare data from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, Arizona’s Medicaid program provides a unique opportunity to exploit state-of-the-art data processing and analysis algorithms to mine data and provide actionable findings that can aid cost containment. Our work addresses specific challenges in this real-life healthcare application to build predictive risk models for forecastin...

Ten Rett syndrome (RS) girls and 10 control girls executed an attentional task in which a complex stimulus was shown followed by individual stimuli presented with distractors. Participants had to discriminate previously presented stimuli from distractors. RS girls carried out the task both in a condition with the containment of stereotypies and in a no-containment condition. Overselectivity occ...

This dissertation develops approaches to testing the satisfiability and the containment of XPath queries in the presence of XML Schema definitions in order to speed up XML querying. XML provides a simple yet powerful mechanism for information storage, processing and delivery, and is a widely used standard data format. XPath is a basic language for querying XML data, and is embedded into many W3...

This paper considers ergodicity properties of certain adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for multidimensional target distributions, in particular Adaptive Metropolis and Adaptive Metropoliswithin-Gibbs. It was previously shown by Roberts and Rosenthal (2007) that Diminishing Adaptation and Containment imply ergodicity of adaptive MCMC. We derive various sufficient conditions to...

XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath fragment covers most of the language features used in practice. Specifically, we show how XPath queries can be translated into equivalent formulas in monadic second-order logic. Using this translation, we construct an o...

In complex environments, many distributed multiagent systems are described with the fractional-order dynamics. In this paper, containment control of fractional-order multiagent systems with multiple leader agents are studied. Firstly, the collaborative control of fractional-order multi-agent systems (FOMAS) with multiple leaders is analyzed in a directed network without delays. Then, by using L...

A set containment join is a join between set-valued attributes of two relations, whose join condition is speci ed using the subset ( ) operator. Set containment joins are used in a variety of database applications. In this paper, we propose a novel partitioning algorithm called Divide-and-Conquer Set Join (DCJ) for computing set containment joins eÆciently. We show that the divide-and-conquer a...

Approximately two–thirds of healthcare costs are accounted for by 10% of the patients. Identifying such high-cost patients early can help improve their health and reduce costs. Data from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System provides a unique opportunity to exploit state-of-the-art data analysis algorithms to mine data and provide actionable findings that can aid cost containment. A n...

The absolute laboratory containment of any virus cannot be guaranteed, but a wealth of experience indicates that effective containment of wild poliovirus materials for global certification is technically and operationally feasible. Effective containment is based on the principles of minimal wild poliovirus infectious and potentially infectious materials in laboratories; minimal risks of operati...