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I t is now 16 years since Nowikoff (1908) accelerated the division rate of Paramecium by adding thyroid gland to his cultures. Later , Shumway (1914) reached the same conclusion after a series of more critical and painstaking experiments, and in the following year Budington and Harvey (1915) showed tha t thyroids from various vertebrates would produce similar results. Still later, Shumway (1917...

Should routine platelet testing be done on all patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention? The Evidence Base for Platelet Function Testing in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association. From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Scripps Clinic, La Jolla, Calif. This article is Part I of a 2-part series. Part II appears on page 284. Correspondence to Matthew J. Price, MD, 10666 N Torrey Pines Rd, Maildrop S1056, La Jolla, CA 92037. E-mail price.matthew@scripp...

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Teaching on a budget: agents advising agents in reinforcement learning

This paper introduces a teacher-student framework for reinforcement learning. In this framework, a teacher agent instructs a student agent by suggesting actions the student should take as it learns. However, the teacher may only give such advice a limited number of times. We present several novel algorithms that teachers can use to budget their advice effectively, and we evaluate them in two ex...

GPCR Network: a large-scale collaboration on GPCR structure and function

Raymond C. Stevens1,*, Vadim Cherezov1, Vsevolod Katritch1, Ruben Abagyan6,7, Peter Kuhn2, Hugh Rosen3,4, and Kurt Wüthrich1,5 1Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 2Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA 3Department of Chemical Physiolog...