Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a highly aggressive cancer, with a median patient survival of less than one year. Clinically useful biomarkers capable of accurately assessing prognosis, as well as response to therapy, are urgently needed. At the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting, Maus et al. (Abstract #e15199) and Neuzillet et al. (Abstract #e15200) present data on use of c-met as a prognostic biomarker, a...

From February to April CRL carried out investigations into the modification of our l~n~Hsh name recognition software developed for MUC-6 [1] to Chinese and Spanish. In addition a Japanese system, developed under Tipster Phase I [2], was modified to comply with the MET task. Finally learning methods developed for MUC-6 were adapted to handle Chinese. All systems performed with good levels of acc...

Abstractions and landmarks are two powerful mechanisms for devising admissible heuristics forions and landmarks are two powerful mechanisms for devising admissible heuristics for classical planning. Here we aim at putting them together by integrating landmark information into abstractions, and propose a concrete realization ofions, and propose a concrete realization of this direction suitable f...

A popular Facebook meme asks a user’s friends to recall how they met that user and then to paste the same query in their own status. We study the spread of this particular meme, which engaged millions of Facebook users, and the insights into relationship formation that the resulting compilation of answers provides. We describe the locations, relationships, and circumstances that contribute to f...

We introduce a greedy local search procedure called GSAT for solving propositional satisfiability problems. Our experiments show that this procedure can be used to solve hard, randomly generated problems that are an order of magnitude larger than those that can be handled by more traditional approaches such as the Davis-Putnam procedure or resolution. We also show that GSAT can solve structured...

A meta-answer is a set of statements that assert various properties of an answer to a database uery. These statements may qualify the validity or the completeness o 1 the answer, or they may characterize the answer abstractly. Meta-answers add meaning and insight to standard database answers. We describe an extension to the relational database model for representing properties of the stored dat...