L K E T H E PRECEDING ARTICLES in this ' semi-annual series 1 this survey is based on notes written by members of the Re fer ence Staff of the Columbia University L i braries. A n innovation in this issue is the inclusion of a f e w titles in the sciences, annotations for which were written by assistants in the Columbia science libraries. Notes written by assistants and used unchanged are signe...

De-identification of personal health information is essential in order not to require written patient informed consent. Previous de-identification methods were proposed using natural language processing technology in order to remove the identifiers in clinical narrative text, although these methods only focused on narrative text written in English. In this study, we propose a regular expression...

The present study examined the process and product effects of note-taking strategy training on Iranian EFL learners’ comprehension and retention of written material, with gender as a moderating variable. Intermediate undergraduate EFL learners (N = 108) were assigned to experimental and control groups. The Experimental (intervention) Group received training on how to take notes, using graphic o...

PURPOSE We performed a two-and-a-half year follow-up study of strategy factors in successful learning to predict academic achievements in medical education. METHODS Strategy factors in successful learning were identified using a content analysis of open-ended responses from 30 medical students who were ranked in the top 10 of their class. Core words were selected among their responses in each...

These are the notes for the 2011 Summer Tutorial on Coding Theory. I have not gone through and given citations or references for all of the results given here, but the presentation relies heavily on two sources, van Lint’s Introduction to Coding Theory and the book of Huffman and Pless Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes. I also used course notes written by Sebastian Pancratz from a Part II ...

Extracting information from unstructured clinical narratives is valuable for many clinical applications. Although natural Language Processing (NLP) methods have been profoundly studied in electronic medical records (EMR), few studies have explored NLP in extracting information from Chinese clinical narratives. In this study, we report the development and evaluation of extracting tumor-related i...

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INTRODUCTION Paper has been the dominating means for capturing and storing written language for several centuries. Recently, computers have been established in this domain at the same time offering a far wider range of features. This has led many to believe that the use of paper might be completely replaced by computers in the near future. Yet there is no empirical data supporting such a hypoth...