“I didn’t really think about it ” (M. Planck and the Quantum Revolution)

What I think when I think about treebanks

In this opinion piece, I present four somewhat controversial suggestions for the design of future treebanks: a) Treebanks should be based on adversarial samples, rather than pseudorepresentative samples. b) Treebanks should include multiple splits of the data, rather than just a single split, as in most treebanks today. c) They should include multiple annotations of each sentence, whenever poss...

How Do Economists Really Think About the Environment?

On a topic like the environment, communication among scholars from different disciplines in the natural and social sciences is both important and difficult, but such communication has been far from perfect. Economists themselves may have contributed to some rather fundamental misunderstandings about how economists think about the environment, perhaps through our enthusiasm for market solutions,...

What do faculty and students really think about e-books?

This article reports on a large-scale survey of nearly two thousand faculty and students at one institution, University College London, and profiles their use and perceptions of ebooks. The context for the study is an action research project, CIBER’s SuperBook, that will further investigate the issues raised in this initial benchmarking survey using deep log analysis and qualitative methods. Th...

Cartels, Corporate Compliance, and What Practitioners Really Think About Enforcement

I-18: Techniques and Technologies for Embryo Transfer: Does It Really Matter.

The learning objectives of this presentation are to understand the dynamics involved in the process of ET, evaluate the evidence for/against common practices and techniques and develop a standardized ET process in view of supporting evidence. Gametes and embryos are handled with extreme care at every step of the Laboratory process. ET is the least sophisticated step of the in vitro Fertilizatio...