Evaluating suicide prevention activities is a complex task, and in a prison environment, the complexity increases when an effort is made to determine who is responsible for the suicide the individual or the prison system. This is assuming that the prison system, in itself generates suicide and is primarily responsible.(1) Although the system is not blameless, it is not necessarily a causal fact...

When philosophers look to the history of biology, they most often ask about what happened, and how best to describe it. They ask, for instance, whether molecular genetics subsumed the Mendelian genetics preceding it, or whether these two sciences have maintained rather messier relations. Here I wish to pose a question as much about what did not happen as what did. My concern is with the strengt...

The Outstanding Contributions to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Award was launched in 2015 to recognize individuals who have made lasting and valuable contributions to the Society through their leadership, service, and educational work, or a combination of these areas. Fran Lewitter is the 2017 winner of the Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award and will be recogni...

In [13, 14, 15, 16], Bernd Siebert and myself have been working on a program designed to understand mirror symmetry via an algebro-geometric analogue to the Strominger-YauZaslow program [29]. The basic idea is that the controlling objects in mirror symmetry are integral affine manifolds with singularities. One can view an integral affine manifold as producing a mirror pair of manifolds, one a s...

We present an improved comparison of the strong coupling of the gluon to light (ql = u+d+s), c, and b quarks, determined from multijet rates in avor-tagged samples of hadronic Z decays recorded with the SLC Large Detector at the SLAC Linear Collider between 1993 and 1995. Flavor separation among primary qlql, c c, and b b nal states was made on the basis of the reconstructed mass of long-lived ...