A scientific framework is described in which scientists are cast as problem-solvers, and problems as solved when data are mapped to models. This endeavor is limited by finite attentional capacity which keeps depth of understanding complementary to breadth of vision; and which distinguishes the process of science from its products, scientists from scholars. All four aspects of explanation descri...

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Anniversary This year marks a milestone for Clinical Cancer Research (CCR)—we are celebrating our 20 th anniversary. CCR was launched in January 1995 by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and at the time it was the third journal to join AACR's family of publications (following Cancer Research and Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention). The journal was launched to report...

While the practice of Western medicine is known today to doctors of all ethnic and religious groups, its standards are subject to the availability of resources. The medical ethics guiding each doctor is influenced by his/her religious or cultural background or affiliation, and that is where diversity exists. Much has been written about Jewish and Christian medical ethics. Islamic medical ethics...

This year the Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) celebrates its 20th anniversary. Over the last two decades the Symposium has established itself as the most recognized international forum for research in combinatorial pattern matching and related applications. Contributions to the conference typically address issues of searching and matching strings and more complex patter...