An Empire Gone Bad: Agatha Christie, Anglocentrism and Decolonization

Old cells gone bad

he rising incidence of senescent cells during aging may promote cancer development, according to Judith Campisi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA) and colleagues. They propose that evolution may have selected a useful function for cellular senescence early in life—the switching-off of cells that are prone to becoming cancerous— without any consideration of how these cells mig...

Has Goodwill Accounting Gone Bad?

Shifting the Focus of Attention: The Way Agatha Christie Leads You On

The paper i n v e s t i g a t e s the i n t e r es t ingness of cr ime s t o r i e s by Agatha C h r i s t i e . The r u l e s govern ing the p l o t and the s t o r y suggest t h a t the i n t e r es t ingness of these books is based not on the elements of the p l o t or the s t o r y themselves but on the r eade rs ' need of c r e a t i n g and updat ing t h e i r b e l i e f s t r u c t u r ...

Cholesterol and mortality in heart failure: the bad gone good?

Hypercholesterolemia is a well-established risk factor for the development of coronary artery disease (CAD) and for CAD mortality (1). Elevated serum cholesterol levels were also a risk factor for the development of heart failure (HF) in the Framingham study (2). Reduction in serum total cholesterol levels with 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins) in p...

Treebanks Gone Bad: Generating a Treebank of Ungrammatical English

This paper describes how a treebank of ungrammatical sentences can be created from a treebank of well-formed sentences. The treebank creation procedure involves the automatic introduction of frequently occurring grammatical errors into the sentences in an existing treebank, and the minimal transformation of the analyses in the treebank so that they describe the newly created ill-formed sentence...