Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his colleagues make a strong argument for the need to expand policy capacity among healthcare actors. In this commentary, I develop an additional argument in support of Forest et al view. Forest et al rightly point to the need to have embedded policy experts to successfully translate healthcare reform policy into healthcare change. Translation of externally generated i...

The local-spin-density approximation and the generalized-gradient approximation ~GGA! are used to perform density-functional total-energy calculations at zero temperature for Fe3Al in the ordered D03 and L12 structures. Our calculations show that commonly used GGA functionals fail to predict the experimentally stable D03 structure as the one with the lower total energy. This qualitative discrep...

As this book demonstrates, the development of efficient probabilistic inference techniques has made considerable progress in recent years, in particular with respect to exploiting the structure (e.g., factored, hierarchical or relational) of discrete and continuous problem domains. In this chapter we show that these techniques can be used also for solving Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) or par...

There are two general views regarding the organization of object knowledge. The feature-based view assumes that object knowledge is grounded in a widely distributed neural network in terms of sensory/function features (e.g., Warrington & Shallice, 1984), while the category-based view assumes in addition that object knowledge is organized by taxonomic and thematic categories (e.g., Schwartz et a...

BACKGROUND High-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation has been reported to provide higher response rates and better overall survival than standard chemotherapy in immunoglobulin-light-chain (AL) amyloidosis, but these two strategies have not been compared in a randomized study. METHODS We conducted a randomized trial comparing high-dose intravenous m...