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Sperm Biology: Size Indeed Matters

Although sperm are typically thought to be small, tadpole-like cells produced in vast quantities, sperm size, form and number all vary tremendously across species. Sperm form ranges from amoeboid or discoid to multiflagellate elongated structures [1]. Even within the more familiar uniflagellate spermatozoa, length varies by several orders of magnitude, from the tiny 28μm long porcupine sperm to...

Statins, news, and nuance

Did news coverage of questions about the risk:benefit balance of statins influence their use in the United Kingdom? In a linked paper, Matthews and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.i3283) assert that it did, describing “impact,” “the effect of negative media coverage,” and “a transient rise in the proportion of people who stopped taking statins.” They assumed causality but did not prove it, despite ...

Difficile indeed.

Nuance Reasoning Framework

In this paper, we report on an extensible reasoning framework developed at Nuance Communications that allows a variety of specialized reasoners to be used simultaneously. We report on the key design features of our reasoning framework, and provide a real world use case in the automotive domain.

Nuance Audio Input Specification_v11_ND