Can Gamification Contribute to Computer Modeling-Driven Biomedical Research?

Why and How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health? Proposals for Collaborative Research Avenues

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...

How Can Computer Science Contribute to Knowledge Discovery?

Knowledge discovery, that is, to analyze a given massive data set and derive or discover some knowledge from it, has been becoming a quite important subject in several fields including computer science. Good softwares have been demanded for various knowledge discovery tasks. For such softwares, we often need to develop efficient algorithms for handling huge data sets. Random sampling is one of ...

How Political Science Can Contribute to Public Health: A Response to Gagnon and Colleagues

System Modeling by Computer using Biomedical Texts

In the present paper we describe a new Artificial Intelligence method of system modeling that utilises causal knowledge extracted from different texts. The equations describing the system model are solved with a Prolog program which receives data such as values for its parameters from the text analysis subsystem. The knowledge extraction from the texts is based on the use of our knowledge repre...

How can research on plants contribute to promoting human health?

One of the most pressing challenges for the next 50 years is to reduce the impact of chronic disease. Unhealthy eating is an increasing problem and underlies much of the increase in mortality from chronic diseases that is occurring worldwide. Diets rich in plant-based foods are strongly associated with reduced risks of major chronic diseases, but the constituents in plants that promote health h...