THE YOUNG INFANT with cyanotic congenital cardiac disease presents an acute and difficult diagnostic problem. The anomalies responsible for eyanosis in some such infants are now curable surgically while, on the other hand, there remains a group of eyanotic newborn infants in whom the congenital cardiac anomalies are so complex that no surgical procedures for their correction have yet been devis...

Although one can find in literature some contributions reporting on application of Multistrategy Learning (MSL) in different domains, there are only few studies dealing with application of MSL in financial fields. This paper gives an overview about the possibilities of the application of MSL in finance. Presenting some recent empirical results achieved by the authors, we discuss some advantages...

Sir, Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is a protozoan disease present in Old and New Worlds (1, 2). It is endemic in the Mediterranian basin, particularly in the rural areas of Sicily where almost 60% of Italian cases occur. The disease is caused by parasites of the genus Leishmania infantum, carried by specific species of sandflies as Phlebotomus perniciosus and Phlebotomus perfiliewi perfiliewi (3...

In recent months, there has been considerable discussion in the scientific community of the need for increased transparency, openness, and data access [Dealing with Data special section, 11 February, “Making data maximally available,” B. Hanson et al., Editorial, p. 649, and “Climate data challenges in the 21st century,” J. T. Overpeck et al., Perspective, p. 700, as well as (1–4)]. Missing fro...

Extensive studies on thin films indicated a generic cubic current-voltage I-V dependence as a salient feature of charge transport by tunneling. A quick glance at I-V data for molecular junctions suggests a qualitatively similar behavior. This would render model-based studies almost irrelevant, since, whatever the model, its parameters can always be adjusted to fit symmetric (asymmetric) I-V cur...

Microarray technology is highly used in biological research environments due to its ability to monitor the RNA concentration levels. The analysis of the data generated represents a computational challenge due to the characteristics of these data. Clustering techniques are widely applied to create groups of genes that exhibit a similar behavior. Biclustering relaxes the constraints for grouping,...