Haralick and Elliott's full looking ahead algorithm [4] was presented in the same article as forward checking, but is not as commonly used. We give experimental results which indicate that on some types of constraint satisfaction problems, full looking ahead outperforms forward checking. We also present three new looking ahead algorithms, all variations on full looking ahead, which were designe...

havioral approaches; specifically, they concern topics such as the mobile environment, u-Health, organizational and individual barriers to information systems, user preference to monitors, and human factors in engineering. The collection of topics here is only one example of the gradual rise in interest in social factors, policy, and behavioral informatics. This trend is not only a consequence ...

abstract in this paper, the effect of foreign sector macro-variable on inflation dynamics and firms’ pricing behavior has been investigated in the context of a small open economy new keynesian phillips curve. this curve is derived and estimated for a developing oil-exporting economy suffering from dutch disease. this version of nkpc is an extension of leith and malley’s (2007) small open econom...

Politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. Were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. Civil society moveme...

Editorial I n the mid-1700s, the medical establishment believed that scurvy was a disease of putrefaction that was treatable with an elixir of vitriol and wort. The benefit of citrus was dismissed as unproven despite the fact that its regular consumption to prevent scurvy had been used by some cultures since antiquity and the English military had recommended citrus for scurvy for more than 50 y...

GigaScience is now 5 years old, having been launched at the 2012 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference. Anyone who has attended what is the largest computational biology conference since then has had the opportunity to join us for each birthday celebration-and receive 1 of our fun T-shirts as a party prize. Since launching, we have pushed our agenda of openness, transparency, rep...

ith this issue, Cellular and Molecular GastroenterW ology and Hepatology begins its second year of publication. By any measure, tremendous progress has been made toward establishing Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology as a valuable resource for the broader gastrointestinal research community. By the numbers, our turnaround time from submission to first decision has remained a...

W ell, here I am again, almost 12 months after my January " welcome to a new year " greeting, now writing my " so long, it's been good to know you " message. It's with sadness that I do this because this has been the quickest and most incredible year of my life. In my capacity as the IEEE Computer Society's president, I've traveled almost 150,000 miles and spoken to thousands of colleagues in n...