The term ACVS Diplomate refers to a veterinarian who has been board certified in veterinary surgery. Only veterinarians who have successfully completed the certification requirements of the ACVS are Diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and have earned the right to be called specialists in veterinary surgery.
A graph is an interval graph if it captures the intersection relation for some set of intervals on the real line. Formally, is an interval graph provided that one can assign to each an interval such that is nonempty precisely when . An interval graph on a list can be generated using IntervalGraph[l] in the Wolfram Language package Combinatorica` .
Star graphs are interval graphs, but cycle graphs (for ) are not (Skiena 1990, p. 164). Determining if a graph is an interval graph and realizing it can be done in time (Booth and Lueker 1976; Skiena 1990, p. 164).