It has often been claimed that the proposed Earth artificial satellite LARES/WEBER-SAT−whose primary goal is, in fact, the measurement of the general relativistic Lense-Thirring effect at a some percent level−would allow to greatly improve, among (many) other things, the present−day (10) level of accuracy in testing the equivalence principle as well. Recent claims point towards even two orders ...

In the rendezvous problem, two parties with different labelings of the vertices of a complete graph are trying to meet at some vertex at the same time. It is well-known that if the parties have predetermined roles, then the strategy where one of them waits at one vertex, while the other visits all n vertices in random order is optimal, taking at most n steps and averaging about n/2. Anderson an...

Although The Interpretation of Dreams was published over a century ago, the integration of psychoanalysis into the broad matrix of modern social and cultural history has barely begun. During his lifetime, Freud’s charisma was so powerful that the historical landscape surrounding him remained in shadows. Only decades after his death did light begin to dawn. The earliest significant attempt to hi...

Sepsis is an important clinical problem with a mortality rate of 20% to 30%. Lymphocyte apoptosis has been recognized as an important step in the pathogenesis of experimental sepsis, by inducing a state of 'immune paralysis' that renders the host vulnerable to invading pathogens. The importance of lymphocyte apoptosis in human disease is now confirmed by Weber and colleagues, who demonstrate ex...

Good heuristic solutions for large Multisource Weber problems can be obtained by solving related p median problems in which potential locations of the facilities are users locations and then solving Weber problems for the sets of users of each facility