There are presented automatic classification methods which, according to the authors' conceptions, are specific to biology. In section 1 there are included the necessary steps made in the automatic classification. In section 2 there are presented 2 methods of automatic classification which are frequently used in any field and in opposition with it the section 3 presents another method from lite...

Sub-dominant theory provides efficient tools for clustering. However it classically works only for ultrametrics and ad hoc extensions like Jardine and Sibson’s 2ultrametrics. In this paper we study the extension of the notion of sub-dominant to other distance models in classification accounting for overlapping clusters. We prove that a given dissimilarity admits one and only one lower-maximal q...

introduction: health care is one of the most important sectors in the development of each country and disparities in their distribution will reduce the level of development. the aim of this study was to examine the access to healthcare and degree of development in health care resources in the west of iran in 2011. method: this was a cross-sectional and retrospective study. the study setting was...