One step in the curation process is geneId finding— the task of finding the database identifier of every gene discussed in an article. GeneId-finding was studied experimentally in the BioCreatIvE challenge (Hirschman et al., 2005), which developed testbed problems for each of three model organisms (yeast, mice, and fruitflies). Here we consider geneId ranking, a relaxation of geneId-finding in ...

We study the limiting eigenvalue distribution of n×n banded Toeplitz matrices as n → ∞. From classical results of Schmidt-Spitzer and Hirschman it is known that the eigenvalues accumulate on a special curve in the complex plane and the normalized eigenvalue counting measure converges weakly to a measure on this curve as n → ∞. In this paper, we characterize the limiting measure in terms of an e...

Granular residual is created in the banking network when there are a few large banks with many small banks. In this case, the effect of the shocks on each bank not lost in total that can lead to macro-economic consequences. The transmission of monetary policy through change in bank facilities is one of the key mechanisms affecting monetary policies. The power of transmission of monetary policy ...

Abstract The classical uncertainty principles deal with functions on abelian groups. In this paper, we discuss the uncertainty principles for finite index subfactors which include the cases for finite groups and finite dimensional Kac algebras. We prove the Hausdorff-Young inequality, Young’s inequality, the Hirschman-Beckner uncertainty principle, the Donoho-Stark uncertainty principle. We cha...

AIM To characterize the patterns of competition for a sample of drugs in the Portuguese pharmaceutical market before (January 2002-March 2003) and after (April 2003-June 2003) the introduction of the reference pricing system (RPS). METHODS We performed a descriptive, retrospective, longitudinal analysis, with monthly observations from January 2002 until June 2003 of 15 homogeneous groups. The...

BACKGROUND Managed competition was introduced into the health care system in several countries including the Netherlands, although effects of competition of both providers and health insurers on the price of health care are inconclusive. We investigated the association between competition of both providers (care groups) and health insurers and the price of disease management programmes (DMPs). ...

Prisms are one of the oldest tools ophthal­ mologists use to examine misaligned eyes. The prism bends light rays but does not focus them and lets the doctor measure, in mil­ limeters, the deviation between two eyes. In trying to get a read on how regulators will examine the alignment of the Anthem–Cigna and Aetna–Humana mega­mergers, antitrust attorney Matthew Cantor found his prism in, of all ...