The Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture states that if a graph G is the union of n cliques of size n no two of which share more than one vertex, then χ(G) = n. We provide a formulation of this conjecture in terms of maximal partial clones of partial operations on a set.

1Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, No.1 University Road, Tainan City 701, Taiwan 2Leeds Institute for Molecular Medicine, Section of Experimental Oncology, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, St Jame’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK 3 Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, 600 N. Wolf...

Chang-Jung Chiang; Cheng-Kung Cheng; Chin-Hong Yang; Chun-Jen Liao; Huang-Chien Liang; Yang-Hwei Tsuang Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kuang Tien General Hospital, Taiwan Biomedical Engineering Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institut...

Research Statistical Inference About the Shape Parameter of the New Two-parameter Bathtub-shaped Lifetime Distribution Jong-Wuu Wu1,∗,†, Hai-Lin Lu2, Chong-Hong Chen3 and Chun-Hsien Wu1 1Department of Statistics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei 25137, Taiwan 2Department of Management Information Science, Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan 3Department of Mathematics, ...

Einleitung Fibromyalgie (FM) ist eine komplexe Schmerzerkrankung mit einer Prävalenz von rund 2–4 %. Neben der Schmerz-symptomatik leiden die Patienten häufig unter Symptomen wie Fatigue, Steifigkeit, Schlafstörung, depressive Verstim-mung oder kognitive Beeinträchtigung. Aufgrund der Chroni-zität der FM und der sich daraus ergebenden Notwendigkeit einer langfristigen Therapie sind die Dauerhaf...

1 Department of Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, 415 Chien-Kung Road, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan 2 Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics, Kaohsiung Medical University, 100 Shi-Chuan 1st Road, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan 3 Institute of System Information and Control, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology,...

Yi-Bo Liao, Meng-Hsueh Chiang, Keunwoo Kim, and Wei-Chou Hsu Institute of Microelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, I-Lan 260, Taiwan IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA E-mail: [email protected], Tel: +886-3-9357400 ext. 653, Fax: +886...

CHIH-HENG KE, CE-KUEN SHIEH, WEN-SHYANG HWANG AND ARTUR ZIVIANI Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Kinmen Institute of Technology Kinmen, 892 Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering National Cheng Kung University Tainan, 701 Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences Kaohsiung, 807 Taiwan National Laboratory...