Scarborough touches on these and on many other matters but too often does not press the enquiry home. This may be due partly to limited space allowed for a various and complicated subject, for which the quantity and the quality of the evidence are alike uneven. There are appendices on medical biographies, on sources and problems, on the vexed question ofhuman dissection in Roman times, and on R...

This problem is concerned with efficiently determining constrained positions of objects while minimizing a measure of interconnect between the objects, as in physical layout of integrated circuits, commonly done in 2-dimensions. While most formulations are NP-hard, modern circuits are so large that practical algorithms for placement must have near-linear runtime and memory requirements, but not...

Professor Guy Caldwell is a University Distinguished Research Professor at The University of Alabama. He also holds joint appointments at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham (UAB) as an Adjunct Research Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology. Prof. Caldwell received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Washington & Lee University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Cell, Molecu...