In the next five years, the number of processors in high-end systems for scientific computing is expected to rise to tens and even hundreds of thousands. For example, the IBM Blue Gene/L can have up to 128,000 processors and the delivery of the first system is scheduled for 2005. Existing deficiencies in scalability and fault-tolerance of scientific applications need to be addressed soon. If th...

We present the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), a new reading comprehension dataset consisting of 100,000+ questions posed by crowdworkers on a set of Wikipedia articles, where the answer to each question is a segment of text from the corresponding reading passage. We analyze the dataset to understand the types of reasoning required to answer the questions, leaning heavily on depend...

The science of happiness is an area of positive psychology concerned with understanding what behaviors make people happy in a sustainable fashion. Recently, there has been interest in developing technologies that help incorporate the findings of the science of happiness into users’ daily lives by steering them towards behaviors that increase happiness. With the goal of building technology that ...

The 100,000 Genomes Project is a unique, national programme combining research and transformation of clinical care, by undertaking Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) in patients with rare diseases and cancer. Made possible by technological advances in next generation sequencing1 and falling costs, this project aims to find the genes which cause a patient’s rare disease and identify genetic changes w...

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Abstract. With rapid population growth and socioeconomic development over the last century, a great number of dams/reservoirs have been constructed globally to meet various needs. China has strong economical societal demands for constructing dams reservoirs. The official statistics reported more than 98 000 in China, including nearly 40 % world's largest dams. Despite availability several globa...

Importance The true prevalence of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is unknown. Objective To establish standardized overall and group-specific prevalence estimates for HS in the United States. Design, Setting, and Participants This retrospective analysis included a demographically heterogeneous population-based sample of more than 48 million unique patients across all US census regions. As of O...