Very Large Research Infrastructures (VLRIs) are unique, complex undertakings with a strong international dimension that play critical role in frontier research most scientific domains. VLRIs require considerable care their construction and operation, as well very substantial investments technological innovations. Recent evolutions the political, socio-economic context challenging established pl...

We were very interested to read the article entitled ’The clinical utility of early use of tolvaptan in very elderly patients with acute decompensated heart failure’ by Niikura et al. (1) recently published in the Anatol J Cardiol 2017; 18: 206-12 and the editorial comment entitled 'Tolvaptan in the very elderly with acute decompensated heart failurea therapeutic option worth of consideration' ...

When I began to think about my perspective as a very very old person, I found that I was writing both from my perspective as a gerontologist and from my perspective as an individual grown old. The reason for my dual perspective is that I was born in 1922, at a time when the aging population was growing rapidly, and I lived through several ensuing macroprocesses that would have major effects on ...

Millions of users are exposed to password-strength meters/checkers at highly popular web services that use userchosen passwords for authentication. Recent studies have found evidence that some meters actually guide users to choose better passwords—which is a rare bit of good news in password research. However, these meters are mostly based on ad-hoc design. At least, as we found, most vendors d...

Banko and Brill (2001) suggested that the development of very large training corpora may be more effective for progress in empirical Natural Language Processing than improving methods that use existing smaller training corpora. This work tests their claim by exploring whether a very large corpus can eliminate the sparseness problems associated with estimating unigram probabilities. We do this b...