KNIME (Konstanz Information Miner, [1]) is a userfriendly and comprehensive open-source data integration, processing, analysis, and exploration platform. From day one, KNIME has been developed using rigorous software engineering practices and is used by professionals in both industry and academia in over 60 countries. In the presentation we will show some of the new features in KNIME 2.6 and gi...

From the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Disclosures: Author has nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication March 27, 2017; accepted for publication March 28, 2017. Address for reprints: Thomas A. D’Amico, MD, Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, DUMC Box 3496, D...

872 CMAJ, April 19, 2011, 183(7) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors The most commonly performed surgical procedure in the world — male circumcision — is done for therapeutic, prophylactic, religious, cultural and social reasons. Discussions of male infant circumcision for health reasons are always split. Proponents suggest there are significant potential health benefits includ...

Jokes classification is an intrinsically subjective and complex task, mainly due to the difficulties related to cope with contextual constraints on classifying each joke. Nowadays people have less time to devote to search and enjoy humour and, as a consequence, people are usually interested on having a set of interesting filtered jokes that could be worth reading, that is with a high probabilit...

The resurging interest in diagnostic laparoscopy has witnessed its increasing application in trauma surgery. Such unbridled enthusiasm has at times overlooked its shortcoming in the diagnosis and management of certain in abdominal injuries. We report and discuss one such conspicuous limitation and advocate that the use laparoscopy in abdominal trauma should be tempered with caution.