Smooth local coordinates have been proposed by Hiyoshi and Sugihara 2000 to improve the classical Sibson’s and Laplace coordinates. These smooth local coordinates are computed by integrating geometric quantities over weights in the power diagram. In this paper we describe how to efficiently implement the Voronoi based C local coordinates. The globally C interpolant that Hiyoshi and Sugihara pre...

The sixty-third Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society was held at the University of Rochester on Thursday through Saturday, December 27-29, 1956, in conjunction with meetings of the Mathematical Association of America on Saturday, December 29 and the Association for Symbolic Logic on Thursday, December 27. The registration was 615 including 508 members of the Society. The thirtiet...

The present paper puts an issue of public health into the context of globalization with a particular reference to the trend of decreasing Official Development Assistance ODA. The present paper refers to HIV/AIDS in developing countries that are eligible to participate in the Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. By looking at HIPC countries with adult prevalence rate of HIV above 4%...

Vector part i t ion functions appear in m a n y areas of mathemat ics and its applications, including representat ion theory [ 9 ] , commuta t ive algebra [ 14], approximat ion theory [ 4 ] and statistics [5 ] . It was shown by Blakley [ 2 ] that there exists a finite decomposi t ion of N d such that ~b A is a polynomial of degree n d on each piece. Here we describe such a decomposi t ion expli...

I ’ve been on the CiSE editorial board since the magazine was founded by George Cybenko, roughly 18 years ago. I’ve guest edited multiple special issues for CiSE (including this one) over that span, and I’ve served as an associate editor in chief for about 10 years. It’s a great privilege and honor to carry on the editorial work and continue serving the community as EIC for the next few years. ...

I organized this special theme issue to illustrate ways in which research in the physical and life sciences is stimulated by computational science, and conversely. The t it le—Crosstalk—is meant to epitomize such reciprocal exchanges. This magazine was originally created to facilitate this cross-fert i l izat ion, as was characterized by George Cybenko, CiSE ’s first editor in chief. In his int...

Background. There are different metabolic syndrome traits among patients with different ethnicities. Methods. We investigated this by studying 44 South Asians and 54 Europeans and classified them in three groups according to the occurrence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). Insulin sensitivity index (ISI), static, dynamic, and total beta-cell responsivity indices (Φ), and d...

To the Editor: The recent Mini-Review: Expert Opinions series of articles on the metabolic syndrome epidemic published in the September 30, 2003, issue of Circulation1–3 prompted me to write this letter to the editor. Barely 15 years since the original description by Reaven,4 who called it “syndrome X,” the metabolic syndrome epidemic has already spread to China. The prevalence of metabolic syn...

In this paper we examine how multinational …rms with varied levels of total factor productivity (TFP) self-select into di¤erent host countries. Using a dataset that records the subsidiaries of French manufacturing multinationals, we …nd that …rm-level TFP plays an important role in explaining the sorting of French …rms across host countries. Both the aggregateand …rm-level estimates suggest tha...