A border of a string is a prefix of the string that is simultaneously its suffix. It is one of the basic stringology keystones used as a part of many algorithms in pattern matching, molecular biology, computerassisted music analysis and others. The paper discusses automata-theoretical background of Iliopoulos’s ALL BORDERS algorithm that finds all borders of a string with don’t care symbols. We...

Once upon a time, a handful of North American physiologists decided to create a social scientific network and called it the American Physiological Society (APS). Fast forward 125 years to the present and we find that APS has grown to 10,500 members, over a dozen research and review journals, a yearly budget of nearly $18 million, and an annual meeting that attracts over 10,000 scientists worldw...

We are launching the Teaching and Learning (T&L) section of Global Mental Health (GMH) in a spirit of celebration grounded in deep awareness of responsibility. In concert with the Journal’s mission of moving from making the case to implementing GMH (Belkin, 2014), the T&L section’s mandate is the public health need for effective and widely accessible mental health teaching and learning methods,...

translation is an activity that crystalizes borders. in aworld with good translations, there are no borders but the wall is not made ofconcrete. there are boundaries but crystal walls that has emerged from the workof translators. in a world, where borders is inevitable translation is a way tocleanse borders of factious and desperate. if we translate in accordance to thetheory of antoine berman,...