Abstract Anthropological history is today a growth area. This essay reviews the new collection Anthropology’s Ancestors that Aleksandar Boskovic editing at Berghahn. The three short books he has published so far are very engaging intellectual histories of anthropologists past who have recently received increased critical attention and whose legacy certainly deserves it: Robertson Smith, Margare...

Reuters Corpus Volume I (RCV1) is an archive of over 800,000 manually categorized newswire stories recently made available by Reuters, Ltd. for research purposes. Use of this data for research on text categorization requires a detailed understanding of the real world constraints under which the data was produced. Drawing on interviews with Reuters personnel and access to Reuters documentation, ...

In this note, we provide a bijection between a new collection of words on nonnegative integers of length n and Dyck paths of length 2n− 2, thus proving that this collection belongs to the Catalan family. The surprising key step in this bijection is the zeta map which is an important map in the study of q, t-Catalan numbers. Finally we discuss an alternative approach to this new collection of wo...

In this paper, new preconditioners from class of (I+S)-type for solving linear systems are developed and preconditioned, accelerated overrelaxation (AOR) method is used for the systems. The proposed algorithms have a simple and graceful structure. Asymptotic convergence of the sequence generated by the methods to the unique solution of linear systems is proved, along with a result regarding the...

A number of new algorithms for regular grammar pattern matching is presented. The new algorithms handle patterns speci ed by regular grammars | a generalization of multiple keyword pattern matching and single keyword pattern matching, both considered extensively in and [14, Chapter 4] and in [18]. Among the algorithms is a Boyer-Moore type algorithm for regular grammar pattern matching, answeri...

The genus Calonectria with its Cylindrocladium asexual morphs has been subject to several taxonomic revisions in the past. These have resulted in the recognition of 116 species, of which all but two species (C. hederae and C. pyrochroa) are supported by ex-type cultures and supplemented with DNA barcodes. The present study is based on a large collection of unidentified Calonectria isolates that...

A major obstacle that hinders medical and social research is the lack of reliable data due to people’s reluctance to reveal private information to strangers. Fortunately, statistical inference always targets a well-defined population rather than a particular individual subject and, in many current applications, data can be collected using a web-based system or other mobile devices. These two ch...