The Capricorn Contract

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research in Practice: The CAPriCORN Infrastructure

CAPriCORN, the Chicago Area Patient Centered Outcomes Research Network, is one of the eleven PCORI-funded Clinical Data Research Networks. A collaboration of six academic medical centers, a Chicago public hospital, two VA hospitals and a network of federally qualified health centers, CAPriCORN addresses the needs of a diverse community and overlapping populations. To capture complete medical re...

Capricorn: An Algorithm for Subtropical Matrix Factorization

Max-times algebra, sometimes known as subtropical algebra, is a semi-ring over the nonnegative real numbers where the addition operation is the max function and the multiplication is the standard one. Factorizing a nonnegative matrix over the maxtimes algebra, instead of the standard (nonnegative) one, allows us to find structures and regularities that cannot be easily expressed in the standard...

Glimpses of yesterday North of Capricorn.

CAPriCORN: Chicago Area Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network

The Chicago Area Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network (CAPriCORN) represents an unprecedented collaboration across diverse healthcare institutions including private, county, and state hospitals and health systems, a consortium of Federally Qualified Health Centers, and two Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals. CAPriCORN builds on the strengths of our institutions to develop a cross-cu...

Contract Texts, Contract Teaching, Contract Law: Comment on Lawrence Cunningham, Contracts in the Real World

Lawrence Cunningham’s Contracts in the Real World offers a good starting place for necessary conversations about how contract law should be taught, and, more generally, for when and how cases—in summary form or in longer excerpts—are useful in teaching the law. This Article tries to offer some reasons for thinking that their prevalence may reflect important truths about contract law in particul...