Quiz Page February 2016

Lecture 5 – February 17 , 2016

This lecture is on dimensionality reduction, which aims at ‘squashing’ down the dimensionality while still preserving some geometric properties. The motivation behind this technique is that many types of data are high-dimensional, and it will be operationally much easier to manipulate these data in a lower dimension. For instance, the bag-of-words representation of documents, which treats every...

Cover vol. 13, no. 1, February 2016

Quiz page: an unusual cause of nephrotic syndrome.

CLINICAL PRESENTATION A 53-year-old man presented with pedal edema and facial puffiness of 6 months’ duration. Nephroticrange proteinuria was diagnosed 3 months earlier and empirically treated with prednisolone, 50 mg/d, without a response. Physical examination was notable for blood pressure of 140/86 mm Hg while on treatment with losartan, 25 mg/d, and pitting pedal edema (21) up to the knees....

Recovery in Mental Health: February 2016

Persian-translation vol. 13, no. 1, February 2016