Stochastic local search (SLS) has been an active field of research in the last few years, with new techniques and procedures being developed at an astonishing rate. SLS has been traditionally associated with satisfiability solving, that is, finding a solution for a given problem instance, as their intrinsic nature does not address unsatisfiable problems. Unsatisfiable instances were therefore c...

Vol. 17, No. 3 2000 pp. 143–154 The adolescent developmental period has consistently been documented to be more strongly characterised by a propensity to engage in risk-taking behaviours than any other developmental period. Such behaviours have potentially dangerous or even fatal outcomes (e.g., Arnett, 1992; Flannery, Vazsonyi, & Rowe, 1996; Gonzalez et al., 1994; Gullone, Moore, Moss, & Boyd,...

The motivating thought behind this volume is that " if one wants to " make up the rules " of the game of life, one has to start from a realistic view of its players " (Engelen 2008, 2). This may seem self evident but it is an idea that rarely achieves the prominence which it deserves—not least in methodological debates. For example, much ink has been spilled around Friedman's famous 1953 essay ...

Latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is associated with several lymphoproliferative disorders, including posttransplant lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and Burkitt's lymphoma, as well as nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Twenty-nine microRNAs (miRNAs) have been identified that are transcribed during latent infection from three clusters in the EBV genome. Two of the three clusters of miRNAs are ...

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A critical appraisal and clinical application of Bart BA, Goldsmith SR, Lee KL, et al. Ultrafiltration in decompensated heart failure with cardiorenal syndrome. N. Engl. J. Med. 2012;367:2296-2304. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1210357

In this paper we deene the Extended Linear Complementarity Problem (ELCP), an extension of the well-known Linear Complementarity Problem (LCP). We show that the ELCP can be viewed as a kind of unifying framework for the LCP and its various generalizations. We study the general solution set of an ELCP and we develop an algorithm to nd all its solutions. We also show that the general ELCP is an N...