Assignment on Matlab

Considers sampling, quantisation, filters and lines of best fit

Health Worker Shortages & the Potential of Immigration Policy

Foreign-born and foreign-trained professionals play an important role in the delivery of health care in the United States. This report examines the important role of immigrant doctors and nurses -- many of whom have receivedtheir training abroad -- in the U.S. health industry, using new Census Bureau data as well as information from numerous interviews with health industry experts

Potential Maximal Clique Algorithms for Perfect Phylogeny Problems

Kloks, Kratsch, and Spinrad showed how treewidth and minimum-fill, NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems related to minimal triangulations, are broken into subproblems by block subgraphs defined by minimal separators. These ideas were expanded on by Bouchitt\'e and Todinca, who used potential maximal cliques to solve these problems using a dynamic programming approach in time polynomial in the number of minimal separators of a graph. It is known that solutions to the perfect phylogeny problem, maximum compatibility problem, and unique perfect phylogeny problem are characterized by minimal triangulations of the partition intersection graph. In this paper, we show that techniques similar to those proposed by Bouchitt\'e and Todinca can be used to solve the perfect phylogeny problem with missing data, the two- state maximum compatibility problem with missing data, and the unique perfect phylogeny problem with missing data in time polynomial in the number of minimal separators of the partition intersection graph

A Defense of Abortion

This is a review of David Boonin's A Defense of Abortion (Cambridge University Press, 2002)