When I first developed an Addiction course for the Honors College at UMass-Boston in 2006, it focused exclusively on the acute and long-term effects of psychoactive substances on the brain. However, I soon realized that a strictly biological perspective failed to capture how this complex disorder affected the whole person. Students had no insight into addicts' thoughts, feelings, behaviors or h...

We address Question Answering (QA) for biographical questions, i.e., questions asking for biographical facts about persons. The domain of biographical documents differs from other restricted domains in that the available collections of biographies are inherently incomplete: a major challenge is to answer questions about persons for whom biographical information is not present in biography colle...

special attention to it. As soon as Major Rost laid claim to the cultivation of the bacillus, Surgeon-General Lukis took the opportunity of visiting Burma and seeing the work for himself. He was soon convinced of the importance of the work, and Colonel Bannerman of the Bombay Laboratory was called in to examine and report upon this work. The Rost cultures were examined by him and the work of Wi...

RICHARD L. GOLDEN and CHARLES G. ROLAND (eds.), Sir William Osler, an annotated bibliography with illustrations, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1988, 4to, pp. xv, 214, $100.00. Sir William Osler's personality and writings exert a continuing fascination. Minnie Wright Blogg's bibliography of 1919 was quickly superseded by Maude E. Abbott's Classified and annotated bibliography of 1926 (second...