N ovember seems like a particularly appropriate time to thank the many individuals who contribute to FPM ’s peer review process, but they really deserve our gratitude year round for the important role they play in ensuring the quality of the articles we publish. Those who have reviewed at least one FPM article since January 2011 are listed on our website at http://www.aafp.org/fpm/reviewers. If...

BACKGROUND The wide offer of information on pharmaceuticals does not often fulfill physicians' needs: problems of relevance, access, quality and applicability are widely recognized, and doctors often rely on their own experience and expert opinions rather than on available evidence. A quali-quantitative research was carried out in Italy to provide an overview on information seeking behavior and...

volume contains the manuscripts given at those meetings, although in a few instances only an abstract of the originally presented paper is given. The value of the volume is also enhanced by the printing of the discussion which occurred after various speakers had concluded their remarks. The volume is divided into two parts, one entitled "Contributions from the Fundamental Sciences," and the oth...

comparing the islamic logic and jurisprudential principles, and basedon the separation between minor and major authorities (hujjiyyatsughrawi wa kubrawi), it can be proved that (1) minor authority ofsuitable verbal text per nexum (al-mantuq al-muwafiq al-iltizami),minor authority of suitable concept per nexum (al-mafhum al-muwafiqal-iltizami), and minor authority of contrary concept (al-mafhum ...

Background: Social media are becoming mainstream in the health domain. Despite the large volume of accurate and trustworthy health information available on social media platforms, finding good-quality health information can be difficult. Misleading health information can often be popular (eg, antivaccination videos) and therefore highly rated by general search engines. We believe that community...

Dr. Irwin Perr has used a specific case to draw a generalization and make a recommendation about the forensic psychiatrist's tactical response to a particular aspect of the legal adversary process; that is, he addresses the question of how the psychiatric expert witness should respond to cross-examination by use of publications that attack his credibility as a witness. In his article he makes a...

ion." In The Tempting of America, the formulation is the same but the content has changed: questions of value must be left to the majority unless the original understanding produces a principle that trumps them. Mr. Bork now has the form of his basic argument, a form that can be filled using his method of the moment. So far, we have seen Mr. Bork hold most of the available conservative legal th...

Influence maximization is the key algorithmic problem behind viral marketing: it requires to identify a set of influential users in a social network, who, when convinced to adopt a product, shall influence other users in the network, leading to a large number of adoptions. Although real world users evidently have di↵erent degrees of interest and authoritativeness on di↵erent topics, the bulk of...

Search engines have become a crucial tool for finding information in repositories containing large amounts of textual data in unstructured form (e.g., the Web). However, the task of ad hoc information retrieval, that is, finding documents within a corpus that are relevant to an information need specified using a query, remains a hard challenge. The language modeling approach to information retr...

While a veritable flood of general books on creativity have been released in the past few years (e., it's rare that a text is released that focuses in depth on one particular manifestation of creativity. The Psychology of Humor by Rod A. Martin is such a book, focusing (obviously) on humor. Although not a particularly funny read—though it has its moments—it is a very well-written, well-organize...