In this paper we study interactive data compression and present experimental results on the interactive compression of textual data (books or electronic newspapers) in Italian or English language. The main intuition is that when we have already compressed a large number of similar texts in the past, then we can use this previous knowledge of the emitting source to increase the compression of th...

Analogues of luteinising hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) are very much in fashion. Their design is clever and they offer an effective medical alternative to surgical castra-tion in the treatment of breast and prostatic cancer. In breast cancer their use in metastatic disease is increasing steadily, and current enthusiasm is such that multicentre adjuvant therapy trials in early disease are alr...

A book of size b in a graph is an edge that lies in b triangles. Consider a graph G with n vertices and ⌊n/4⌋+1 edges. Rademacher proved that G contains at least ⌊n/2⌋ triangles, and several authors proved that G contains a book of size at least n/6. We prove the following “linear combination” of these two results. Suppose that α ∈ (1/2, 1) and the maximum size of a book in G is less than αn/2....

Cognition and Persortal Structure is not a book that the typical niarketing research professional would be likely to read on the basis of its title. It is a book that should be of interest to a very broad cross-section of the marketing research community, however. Certainly marketing professionals interested in computer-assisted data collection, expert systems, cognitive structure, and behavior...

Sandra Cavallo, Artisans of the body in early modern Italy: identities, families and masculinities, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2007, pp. xii, 281, £60.00 (hardback 978-0-7190-7662-6). David PCline,Creating choice: a community responds to the need for abortion and birth control, 1961–1973, Palgrave Studies in Oral History, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xiv...