What they generally don't know, however, is that a part of Costa Rica tourists rarely visit (the rural Nicoya Peninsula towns of Nicoya, Santa Cruz and environs) contains the largest cluster of the world's oldest people.
Clustering eight of the world's most prestigious institutions together in one city makes a huge impact on the future prospects of the local people.
The SBC not only serves as a technology connector for one of the largest biomedical clusters in the world, but also works with biotechnology leaders in expanding its historical archive.
The flexibility in the distance measure can be judiciously used in the clustering of the real-world data sets.
Such strong local clustering of the small-world model is consistent with the modularity observed in naturally occurring networks, where modules (i.e. communities of strongly interconnected vertices) are often observed (Ravasz and Barabasi, 2003).
It's not surprising that you see hunger and poverty together in- clustered in certain parts of the world, and the climate does tell part of the story.
Another irony, in fact, is that Gaddafi is reportedly using horrible weapons, including landmines and cluster bombs, that much of the world has renounced – but that the United States has refused to.
HIV occurs in multiple forms, distinguished by small differences in the virus's genetic sequence and designated by letters A through K. Certain subtypes appear to cluster in particular areas of the world, and others have been associated with different rates of progression to full-blown AIDS.
You don't read about the failures of tech clusters all over the world, in countries like Japan, Egypt, Malaysia, and in many regions of the United States.
Important in this context is H. pylori's great genetic diversity: any two independent clinical isolates are usually readily distinguished by DNA fingerprinting or sequencing of one or two housekeeping genes; strains also differ in types of virulence genes that they carry; and different genotype clusters predominate in different parts of the world (e.g., East Asia vs. Western Europe) [13] [15].
