In this interview Sheila Rowbotham talks to Jo Littler about her involvement in feminism and politics over several decades. This ranges across role the Women's Liberation Movement, left activism, historical scholarship, work with Greater London Council (GLC), international homeworking movement secret life as a poet.

The Sequence Alignment Benchmark (SABmark) provides sets of multiple alignment problems derived from the SCOP classification. These sets, Twilight Zone and Superfamilies, both cover the entire known fold space using sequences with very low to low, and low to intermediate similarity, respectively. In addition, each set has an alternate version in which unalignable but apparently similar sequence...

The detection of sequence similarity within the twilight zone has been a challenging problem in sequence analysis. Among various types of approaches for sequence similarity detection, the profileprofile comparison is one of the most reliable approaches [4]. In this study, we design a profile, named match-node profile, which is generated from match nodes in the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) profiles.

Governments worldwide have established a variety of corporations, instrumentalities, quasi-official agencies, quangos, and other “hybrid” entities. This paper explores congressionally chartered organizations (CCOs) in the United States. First, it seeks to explain why CCOs exist Congress establishes them. Next, reviews cases some specific illustrate complexities these anomalous It concludes with...

To students of causality, the writings of William Cochran provide an excellent and intriguing vantage point for studying how statistics, lacking the necessary mathematical tools, managed nevertheless to cope with increasing demands for policy evaluation from observational studies. Cochran met this challenge in the years 1955-1980, when statistics was preparing for a profound, albeit tortuous tr...