No results found” is a misleading phrase because it masquerades as a definitive answer; in reality, the library being searched may contain content that matches a user’s query. This research seeks to understand the effect of null result sets on search behavior and on the perception of contents in digital libraries. Concepts utilized by social computing frameworks and current-generation eCommerce...

This paper outlines an implemented system named PROVERB that transforms and abstracts machine-found proofs to natural deduction style proofs at an adequate level of abstraction and then verbalizes them in natural language. The abstracted proofs, originally employed only as an intermediate representation, also prove to be useful for proof planning and proving by analogy.

Most cancer researchers take care when making media statements about progress in their field. Most science journalists, too, deal with the subject cautiously. Both understand the dangers of raising false hopes. Yet a recent episode in the UK shows how the well-intentioned handling of a story, from laboratory bench to the popular media, can still have unfortunate consequences. The chain began wi...

EVERY YEAR, THE 12 SCIENTIFIC SECTIONS of the American Physiological Society each select a physiologist prominent in its scientific domain to deliver a distinguished, named lecture at the Society’s annual meeting (Experimental Biology). In 2011, the Environmental and Exercise Physiology section chose Michael Joyner, MD, from the Mayo Clinic for this honor, named the Edward Adolph Lecture. Joyne...

As human languages are increasingly dying out, the discovery of a new one is striking. Nigel Williams reports. The UN's atlas of endangered languages lists around 230 that have become extinct during the past 60 years. And it is now widely agreed that around 3,000 languages worldwide are endangered and 200 are critically endangered with fewer than 10 speakers. Even in Europe, Karaim, in western ...

We highlight the value of carefully designed observational epidemiologic analyses in translating basic science discoveries to clinical application and in providing the impetus for exploring underlying mechanisms for observed associations. Coupling epidemiologic data with an in vitro screen of commonly used therapeutic agents may identify novel applications for further clinical testing.

principles about what science is, what it tries to accomplish, and how its results should

We present our work with augmented everyday objects transformed into sound sources for music generation. The idea is to give voice to objects through technology. More specifically, the paradigm of the birth of musical instruments as a sonification of objects used in domestic or work everyday environments is here considered and transposed into the technologically augmented scenarios of our conte...

The quest for the function of BPAG1, a major hemidesmosomal protein of skin keratinocytes, has led to the discovery of a group of protein isoforms derived from the same genomic locus that are involved in organizing and integrating cytoskeletal networks in sensory neurons.

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