Scientific Discovery, Contextual Factors, and Cardiometabolic Health Research

Scientific Discovery and Women's Health

urrealism claims totally the work of the enchantress too soon gone, " said André Breton, when he heard that Remedios Varo had died, in 1963 (1). Surrealism, which sought to express " the actual functioning of thought, " was Varo's vehicle for understanding the universe, a vehicle that, like the fanciful locomotives in many of her paintings, went beyond established scientific principles. Bolster...

Computer science research on scientific discovery

Cardiometabolic risk factors and health behaviors in family caregivers

The purpose of this study was to compare components of cardiometabolic risk and health behaviors of 20 family caregivers of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients to those of age, gender, and race/ethnicity-matched controls. A prospective, repeated measures design was used to compare cardiometabolic risk and health behaviors in caregivers and controls at three time-points: pre-t...

Understanding Contextual Factors in Cost, Quality and Priority Setting Decisions in Health; Comment on “Contextual Factors Influencing Cost and Quality Decisions in Health and Care: A Structured Evidence Review and Narrative Synthesis”

There is growing recognition in the academic literature that critical decisions concerning resource allocation and resource management in health and care are influenced by a range of contextual factors. In their paper in this journal, Williams et al define these ‘decisions of value’ as being characterized by a significant and demonstrable impact on quality and resources in health and care. ‘Dec...

Automatic Discovery of Contextual Factors Describing Phonological Variation

In this paper we describe a method for automatically discovering subsets of contextual factors which, taken together, axe useful for predicting the realizations, or pronunciations, of English words for continuous speech recognition. A decision tree is used for organizing contextual descriptions of phonological variation. This representation enables us to categorize different realizations accord...