Since 2015 when migration across the Mediterranean was declared a “crisis” in Europe, language of crisis and invasion has persisted, structuring conversations political imaginations. This led many to argue for strict closure borders deportation migrants or “people on move,” 1 deepening set racisms within borders. But this also less publicized, opposing struggle against borders, service more ega...

The cost of living is high in Juba, the capital of the world’s youngest nation, the Republic of South Sudan.1 Decades of conflict have wiped out basic infrastructure and destroyed what production capacity it once had. So most goods—including food, basic inputs and construction materials—must be imported. That can be costly and slow. An entrepreneur in Juba would have to spend $9,429 to import a...

1 The issue The purpose of this essay is to shed some light on a certain type of sentence, which I call a borderline contradiction. A borderline contradiction is a sentence of the form F a ∧ ¬F a, for some vague predicate F and some borderline case a of F , or a sentence equivalent to such a sentence. For example, if Jackie is a borderline case of 'rich', then 'Jackie is rich and Jackie isn't r...

Exchanging ideas with like-minded, enthusiastic people interested in the same topic is crucial for the advancement of a scientist's career. Several Regional Student Groups (RSGs) of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council have cooperated in the last six years to organize scientific workshops and conferences. With motivated students, it is possible to create a ...

Consulting Editors Francisco Bezanilla, Chicago, IL Hannah Carey, Madison, WI Hsiao Chang Chan, Hong Kong, China Anne Eichmann, New Haven, CT Sten Grillner, Stockholm, Sweden D. Graham Hardie, Dundee, UK Donald Hilgemann, Dallas, TX Reinhard Jahn, Gottingen, Germany Baruch Kanner, Jerusalem, Israel Julie Kauer, Providence, RI Amira Klip, Toronto, Canada Litsa Kranias, Cincinnati, OH Richard S. ...

The biogeography of speciation remains a controversial issue and the process of allopatric speciation reigns. Sympatric speciation differs from allopatric speciation in terms of geographic setting and the role of selection in bringing about reproductive isolating mechanisms, making it a particularly fascinating and controversial subject for evolutionary biologists. Mayr (1947) explained the dif...

“WHERE WERE YOU? Andy has asked to see you several times,” my friend Karen (one of our nurses) greeted me as I walked into our Palliative Care Unit. “Why? What is bothering him? Is he in pain?” “No! Just wants to see you, I guess. He is transitioning you know . . . ” Transitioning is a euphemism for active dying often used on our unit. “Have you called his family yet?” I asked, knowing full wel...

Association rules identify associations among data items and were introduced in 1993 by Agarwal et al.. Most of the algorithms to find association rules deal with the static databases. There are very few algorithms that deal with dynamic databases. The most classical algorithm to find association rules in dynamic database is Borders algorithm. This paper presents two modified version of the Bor...

Political borders are controversial and contested spaces. In an attempt to better understand movement along and through political borders, we applied the metaphor of a membrane to look at how people, ideas, and things “move” through a border. More specifically, we employed this metaphor in a system dynamics framework to construct a computer model to assess legal and illegal migration on the US-...