Translational tidbits

In a Fashion Brand – Postmodern Tidbits

Originally, “brand” meant only a mark of identification. Brick makers in ancient Egypt marked their bricks to avoid blame for the collapse of a building [1]. In ancient times, potters would also put marks on their work for identification [2]. Today, the word “brand” has taken on a new meaning. Blackett has even argued that “...brands have come to symbolize the convergence of the world’s economi...

A Rule-Based Approach to Extracting Relations from Music Tidbits

This paper presents a rule based approach to extracting relations from unstructured music text sources. The proposed approach identifies and disambiguates musical entities in text, such as songs, bands, persons, albums and music genres. Candidate relations are then obtained by traversing the dependency parsing tree of each sentence in the text with at least two identified entities. A set of syn...

translational nanomedicine

Translational Insights on Lung Transplantation: Learning from Immunology

The introduction of ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) in the practice of lung transplantation has allowed the reconditioning of the marginal grafts and their conversion into transplantable grafts. In addition, EVLP can provide a platform for the application of various preventive measures to decrease the incidence of post-transplant complications. While the Toronto team targets the attenuation of th...

A Topological Hierarchy of Molecular Chirality and other Tidbits in Topological Stereochemistry

Chemists have long been intrigued by the molecular basis of isomerism. Indeed, much of the powerful paradigm of structure based upon the molecular graph was first invented to explain isomerism, including the classifications used in modern stereochemistry. Thus, constitutional isomers describe pairs of isomeric molecular structures possessing non-homeomorphic molecular graphs, while the classica...