My area of research is the relationship between a word’s semantics (or meaning) and its syntactic behaviour. The underlying idea is that if two words mean similar things then they will occur in documents in similar contexts. In other words, in a given sentence it is generally possible to substitute each word with a synonym (i.e. another word with the same meaning). For example, in the following...

Avoiding a hangover is a great goal to have! Many folks who participate in moderate or higherrisk drinking [2] experience a hangover at some point (though some people can experience a hangover with just one drink). A hangover isn't just one symptom; it's a set of possible symptoms a person may experience after consuming alcohol. With a bit of planning, symptoms of hangovers can be minimized whe...

The hangover effects of 768 mg chlormethiazole, an hypnotic with a half-life of approximately 4 hr, were compared with those of placebo in a double-blind cross-over study in 8 young subjects. Ten hours after dosing there were no differences between the preparations in the subjects' psychomotor performance, EEG sleep scores, or visual analogue ratings. Thus, an hypnotic which is rapidly removed ...

Avoiding a hangover is a great goal to have! Many folks who participate in moderate or higherrisk drinking [2] experience a hangover at some point (though some people can experience a hangover with just one drink). A hangover isn't just one symptom; it's a set of possible symptoms a person may experience after consuming alcohol. With a bit of planning, symptoms of hangovers can be minimized whe...

Most anaesthetists would agree that there is room for a more satisfactory intravenous anaesthetic than thiopentone. This drug is a powerful depressor both of blood pressure and of respiration. The compound G.29.505 was investigated in the laboratory by Thuillier and Domenjoz (1957), and appeared to offer some promise, particularly because of some tendency on its part to stimulate respiration. F...

Avoiding a hangover is a great goal to have! Many folks who participate in moderate or higherrisk drinking [2] experience a hangover at some point (though some people can experience a hangover with just one drink). A hangover isn't just one symptom; it's a set of possible symptoms a person may experience after consuming alcohol. With a bit of planning, symptoms of hangovers can be minimized whe...

The effects of a single 384 mg oral dose of chlormethiazole were compared with those of 20 mg of temazepam and placebo in healthy old and young women (mean ages 72.9 and 24.7 years respectively). Both drugs were effective hypnotics and had no detectable pharmacological action the next morning. Even four hours after administration performance of a simple psychomotor test was not impaired and swa...

The currently accepted explanation of the short action of barbiturate anesthetics is that the redistribution of drug within the body compartments and also some degree of metabolism being involved. It is, however manifestly evident that the barbiturates anesthetic are not rapidly metabolized. Thus it was assumed that molecular modifications could provide barbiturates which undergo rapid metaboli...

Social media, such as blogs, are often seen as democratic entities that allow more voices to be heard than the conventional mass or elite media. Some also feel that social media exhibits a balancing force against the arguably slanted elite media. A systematic comparison between social and mainstream media is necessary but challenging due to the scale and dynamic nature of modern communication. ...