This paper introduces the outline of the first NTCIR Workshop, which is the first evaluation workshop designed to enhance research in Japanese text retrieval and cross-lingual information retrieval. The test collection used in the Workshop consists of more than 330,000 documents with more than half are EnglishJapanese paired. Twenty-three groups from four countries have conducted IR tasks and s...

background: clinical reasoning process leads clinician to get purposeful steps from signs and symptoms toward diagnosis and treatment. this research intends to investigate the effect of teaching clinical reasoning on problem-solving skills of medical students.   methods: this research is a semi-experimental study. nineteen medical student of the pediatric ward as case group participated in a tw...

Following last four years’ RAM-SE (Reflection, AOP and Meta-Data for Software Evolution) workshop at the ECOOP conference, the RAM-SE’08 workshop was a successful and popular event. As its name implies, the workshop’s focus was on the application of reflective, aspect-oriented and data-mining techniques to the broad field of software evolution. Topics and discussions at the workshop included me...

INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND The non-existence of a common terminology or standards in Integrated Care makes it difficult to compare experiences and results, whether on a national or international level, while the interdisciplinarity of the concept, both in theory and practice, proves to be a curse when it should be a blessing. Thus, we found it high time to bridge the gap, bring practice to the...

Understanding how murine models can elucidate the mechanisms underlying antitumor immune responses and advance immune-based drug development is essential to advancing the field of cancer immunotherapy. The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) convened a workshop titled, "Challenges, Insights, and Future Directions for Mouse and Humanized Models in Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy" as p...

This is the report on a workshop held at CMU on July 12–14, 2005. The workshop is part of the planning process initiated by NSF to explore potential architectures for a next generation secure network designed to meet the needs of the 21st century. In considering future architectures, we ignore issues of backward compatibility with the current Internet but seek to benefit from the experience gai...

This article is a product of a workshop on the Future of Visual Analytics, held in Washington, DC on 4 March, 2009. Workshop attendees included representatives from the visual analytics research community across government, industry and academia. The goal of the workshop, and the resulting papers, was to reflect on the first 5 years of the visual analytics enterprise and propose research challe...