In spite of the many advances in the understanding of leprosy and its management, leprosy evokes fear in the common man and in professionals alike. In a recent survey in western countries, it was surprising to find that, when asked, people preferred to contract AIDS rather than leprosy. There is no doubt that ignorance about leprosy is the major factor in this public reaction. However, it is im...

Terrorism is a psychological “mind game” with terrorists and leaders of the targeted society competing to influence and control the terror generated. While terrorists look to maximize their terror, government and public health entities seek to blunt fear and adverse avoidance behaviors that may ensue amongst the public. Drawing upon case studies, the paper employs the risk perception matrix fro...

In this paper we present three algorithms that solve three combinatorial optimization problems related to each other. One of them is the patience sorting game, invented as a practical method of sorting real decks of cards. The second problem is computing the longest monotone increasing subsequence of the given sequence of n positive integers in the range 1, . . . , n. The third problem is to en...