rarely, do we think of cancer as “bacterial”, such that we are often told that “cancer is not contagious” persistent bacterial infections cause persistent irritation of the host’s defense systems, which when ineffective in eradication of the infection, result in a multitude of self-destructive damages. this in some cases occurs to such severity that the resulting cellular hyper-proliferation pr...

The break minimization problem is to find a home-away assignment that minimizes the number of breaks for a given schedule of a round-robin tournament. In a recent paper, Elf et al. conjectured that this minimization problem is solvable in polynomial time if the optimal value of a given instance is less than the number of teams of the instance. We prove their conjecture affirmatively by showing ...

In this paper, we present a new phrase break prediction method that integrates second-order information into general maximum entropy model. The phrase break prediction problem was mapped into a classification problem in our research. The features we used for the prediction of phrase breaks are of several layers such as local features (part-of-speech (POS) tags, a lexicon, lengths of eojeols and...

We revise the classic methodology to find the multi-product break-even point. In the current paper we propose a solution to the problem under uncertainty conditions, based on Durán Herrera’s crisp approach [3] and applying fuzzy linear programming. We introduce the concept of approximate break-even for cases in which, due to the nature of the problem, it is not possible to find the break-even p...

Some applications involve automatic generation and execution of schedules that contain actions with uncertain durations. Such uncertainty can cause schedules to break during execution. This paper presents a technique, called Just-In-Case scheduling or JIC, for building robust schedules that tend not to break. The technique implements the common sense idea of being prepared for likely errors, ju...

In this paper, we present a new phrase break prediction method that integrates second-order information into general maximum entropy model. The phrase break prediction problem was mapped into a classification problem in our research. The features we used for the prediction of phrase breaks are of several layers such as local features (part-of-speech (POS) tags, a lexicon, lengths of eojeols and...

We compared the effects of reinforcing compliance with either positive reinforcement (edible items) or negative reinforcement (a break) on 5 participants' escape-maintained problem behavior. Both procedures were assessed with or without extinction. Results showed that compliance was higher and problem behavior was lower for all participants when compliance produced an edible item rather than a ...