The Right Answer

Finding the Right Plugin: Mosquitoes Have the Answer

The chemical complexity of the male ejaculate is truly extraordinary and every bit as remarkable as the most extravagant male plumage and courtship displays. This protein-rich seminal fluid delivers chemical messages that can enter the female brain and modify behaviour, stimulate muscle contractions in, and change the appearance of the female reproductive tract, and cause females to release rep...

Incentivising sustainable living: the wrong answer to the right question?

Is It the Right Answer? Exploiting Web Redundancy for Answer Validation

Answer Validation is an emerging topic in Question Answering, where open domain systems are often required to rank huge amounts of candidate answers. We present a novel approach to answer validation based on the intuition that the amount of implicit knowledge which connects an answer to a question can be quantitatively estimated by exploiting the redundancy of Web information. Experiments carri...

Is Direct Instruction an Answer to the Right Question?

Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006) make a general case for the effectiveness of a teaching method—direct instruction—without reference to any context of what it is that is being taught by whom and to whom. In so doing, they bypass what is arguably the most pressing concern facing educators—not how to teach students but what to teach them. An argument is made for the need to contemplate instru...

Painful purple nodule on the right thigh—Answer

Glomus tumors are neoplasms of the normal glomus body. This structure is a neuromyoarterial body composed of an afferent arteriole and an efferent venule with multiple interconnections. Contractility of glomus cells occurs after temperature changes are sensed by nerves within the glomus body, hence its importance in local blood flow regulation [1,2]. Glomus tumors are rare corresponding to 1,6%...