Disruptive Physicians: Sound more Familiar than you Thought?

Pancreatic Cancer – More Familial than You Thought

Although pancreatic cancer accounts for only 2% of new cancer cases, it is the fifth leading cause of cancerrelated death in Western countries. The high mortality rate is mainly caused by the fact that most cases are detected at a stage when curable resection is not an option anymore and prognosis is poor [45,55]. The etiology of pancreatic cancer is poorly understood. Several putative risk fac...

More ties than we thought

We extend the existing enumeration of neck tie knots to include tie knots with a textured front, tied with the narrow end of a tie. These tie knots have gained popularity in recent years, based on reconstructions of a costume detail from The Matrix Reloaded, and are explicitly ruled out in the enumeration by Fink and Mao (2000). We show that the relaxed tie knot description language that compre...

Is Belief Revision Harder Than You Thought?

Suppose one wishes to construct, use, and maintain a knowledge base (KB) of beliefs about the real world, even though the facts about that world are only partially known. In the AI domain, this problem arises when an agent has a base set of beliefs that reflect partial knowledge about the world, and then tries to incorporate new, possibly contradictory knowledge into this set of beliefs. We cho...

Data Integration Is Harder than You Thought

You have more capital than you think.

Senior executives typically delegate the responsibility for managing a firm's derivatives portfolio to in-house financial experts and the company's financial advisers. That's a strategic blunder, argues this Nobel laureate, because the inventiveness of modern financial markets makes it possible for companies to double or even triple their capacity to invest in their strategic assets and compete...