President's Column: Well Ended and Well Begun

Well begun, half done.

The phone call comes one evening as you are reviewing an interesting article in the latest issue of the Journal. It's your neighbor, who tells you that his wife Susan is now in braces. You swallow once, wondering why Susan didn't seek your opinion. Evidently, Susan had responded to a mailed advertisement from an orthodontist who practices in a nearby dental group. After a brief examination, Sus...

Well begun is half done

Chest pain and palpitations caused a 57-year-old female with Hashimoto disease to visit our outpatient clinic. Physical examination, laboratory testing and ECG showed no abnormalities. Given the 13-beat non-sustained ventricu-lar tachycardia on Holter monitoring and persistent chest pain, cardiac catheterisation was performed. This showed the origin of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) ...

Well, well, well water.

Although the multiplication of bacteriophages (phages) has a substantial impact on the biosphere, comparatively little is known about how the external environment affects phage production. Here we report that sub-lethal concentrations of certain antibiotics can substantially stimulate the host bacterial cell’s production of some virulent phage. For example, a low dosage of cefotaxime, a cephalo...

Well Begun Is Half Done: Generating High-Quality Seeds for Automatic Image Dataset Construction from Web

We present a fully automatic approach to construct a large-scale, highprecision dataset from noisy web images. Within the entire pipeline, we focus on generating high quality seed images for subsequent dataset growing. High quality seeds are essential as we revealed, but they have received relatively less attention in previous works with respect to how to automatically generate them. In this wo...

Leading Well: Transformational Leadership and Well-Being