In their recent publication, Frogley and colleagues have reviewed the evidence indicating that clozapine treatment reduces aggressive behaviour in patients with schizophrenia, and perhaps with other disorders as well (Frogley et al. 2012). Although randomized controlled trials testing this anti-aggressive effect are relatively scarce, the evidence based on many studies supports it. There is gen...

Språkbanken at the National Library of Norway is currently building up gold-standard Dependency Grammar treebanks for Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk. The treebanks are manually annotated for morphological features, syntactic functions and dependency relations. This paper explains the choice of texts and format of the treebanks, some key aspects of the morphological and syntactic annotation, and i...

We present a gold standard for evaluating scale membership and the order of scalar adjectives. In addition to evaluating existing methods of ordering adjectives, this knowledge will aid in studying the organization of adjectives in the lexicon. This resource is the result of two elicitation tasks conducted with informants from Amazon Mechanical Turk. The first task is notable for gathering open...

This paper presents a method of building a gold standard test set of Thai WordNet. The results of this research can be utilised for evaluating or comparing the results from different approaches of Thai WordNet construction. In this research, a part of Thai WordNet is carefully handcrafted from Common Base Concepts’ FirstOrderEntities with five translation resources. However, we found that to bu...

OBJECTIVES Open radical prostatectomy (RP) has been the standard and primary treatment for focal prostate cancer. However, in recent years this view has changed, as robot-assisted laparoscopic RP has gained acceptance among urologists. In this review we evaluate the importance and place of robotics in laparoscopic urological surgery, discussing several techniques that are currently being used a...

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BACKGROUND A comparison of safety, efficacy, and cost of laparoscopic splenectomy (LS) vs open splenectomy (OS) for idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) was performed. METHODS The records of 49 consecutive patients who underwent splenectomy for ITP (31 LS and 18 OS) at a large metropolitan teaching hospital between 3/91 and 8/95 were reviewed. Morbidity, mortality, hospital stay, operati...

Digital coronary angiography: the new gold standard? Few, if any, other areas of imaging require the high spatial, temporal, and contrast resolutions that are needed for coronary arteriography. For two decades 35 mm cine-angiography has fulfilled these requirements and has been regarded as the "gold standard" for the investigation of coronary artery disease; but despite its many advantages cine...

The indication of laparoscopic surgery during pregnancy is well established in the literature. Several articles defend and even recommend its use in any trimester of pregnancy with good results for both the mother and the fetus.1 We have read with great interest the article Acute appendicitis in pregnancy: literature review published in the Journal of the Brazilian Medical Association (Revista ...

We present a gold standard annotation of syntactic dependencies in the English Web Treebank corpus using the Stanford Dependencies standard. This resource addresses the lack of a gold standard dependency treebank for English, as well as the limited availability of gold standard syntactic annotations for informal genres of English text. We also present experiments on the use of this resource, bo...