Building Bridges III-Personal Narratives, Incoherent Paradigms, and Plural Citizens

Incoherent tunneling and heat dissipation in molecular bridges

Identifying Personal Narratives in Chinese Weblog PostsTitleIdentifying Personal Narratives in Chinese Weblog Posts

Automated text classification technologies have enabled researchers to amass enormous collections of personal narratives posted to English-language weblogs. In this paper, we explore analogous approaches to identify personal narratives in Chinese weblog posts as a precursor to the future empirical studies of cross-cultural differences in narrative structure. We describe the collection of over h...

Building Bridges Between Convex Regions

In the Euclidean traveling salesman and buyers problem (TSBP), we are given a set of convex regions in d-dimensional space, and we wish to nd a minimum-cost tour that visits all the regions. The cost of a tour depends on the length of the tour itself and on the distance that buyers within each region need to travel to meet the salesman. We show that constantfactor approximations to the TSBP and...

Building Bridges through Scientific Conferences

Getting together to exchange ideas, forge collaborations, and disseminate knowledge is a long-standing tradition of scientific communities. How conferences are serving the community, what their current challenges are, and what is in store for the future of conferences are the topics covered in this Commentary.

Building Bridges for Collective Wisdom

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE Corresponding author: Peter P. Yu, MD, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, 795 El Camino Real, SV 301, Palo Alto, CA 94301; e-mail: [email protected] Welcome to the inaugural issue of Journal of Global Oncology (JGO), ASCO’s new online-only, open-access journal dedicated to publishing the highest quality information concerning oncology research and care de...