the establishment of foreign military bases is a key matter to understand the distribution of power in spheres of influence throughout the world. oversea bases are the first mechanism of a mass network, which works to maintain the control exercised by great powers, becoming the infrastructure for wars. normally,  government allows the allies and governments that have similar ideas about common ...

The present group of articles on the genetic basis of common diseases inaugurates a new policy on the part of the editors of the Proceedings. The editors plan to present a series of written minisymposia on dynamic and emerging areas of research of interest to broad groups of readers. We will solicit and present groups of interrelated articles by leading authorities and contributors describing t...

We prove two results on packing common bases of two matroids. First, we show that the computational problem of common base packing reduces to the special case where one of the matroids is a partition matroid. Second, we give a counterexample to a conjecture of Chow, which proposed a sufficient condition for the existence of a common base packing. Chow’s conjecture is a generalization of Rota’s ...

Methods for computing the least common subsumer (lcs) are usually restricted to rather inexpressive Description Logics (DLs) whereas existing knowledge bases are written in very expressive DLs. In order to allow the user to re-use concepts defined in such terminologies and still support the definition of new concepts by computing the lcs, we extend the notion of the lcs of concept descriptions ...

In daily life, we frequently encounter false claims in the form of consumer advertisements, political propaganda, and rumors. Repetition may be one way that insidious misconceptions, such as the belief that vitamin C prevents the common cold, enter our knowledge base. Research on the illusory truth effect demonstrates that repeated statements are easier to process, and subsequently perceived to...