AIM To determine the change in information relayed from histopathologists to clinicians by using templates for reporting specimens of uterine cervix sampled by loop excision of the transformation zone (LETZ). METHODS Minimum datasets for the information required from LETZ specimens received from the colposcopy clinic, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, were incorporated into templates on the clinica...

To verify whether the C825T polymorphism of the GNB3 influences the response to neuropsychological tests, mini-mental state examination, digit span (DS), immediate and delayed prose memory, memory with interference at 10 and 30 seconds (MI 10 and 30), trail making tests (TMTs) A and B, abstraction task, verbal fluency (VF) test, figure drawing and copying, overlapping figures test and clock tes...

Power management is an important problem in battery powered sensor networks as the sensors are required to operate for a long time (usually, several weeks to several months). One of the challenges in developing power management protocols for sensor networks is prototyping. Specifically, existing programming platforms for sensor networks (e.g., nesC/TinyOS) use an event-driven programming model ...

Power management is an important problem in battery-powered sensor networks as the sensors are required to operate for a long time (usually, several weeks to several months). One of the challenges in developing power management protocols for sensor networks is prototyping. Specifically, existing programming platforms for sensor networks (e.g., nesC/TinyOS) use an event-driven programming model ...

Conveying scientific content with accuracy and fluency takes practice and requires deep understanding of the concepts being conveyed. This depth of knowledge comes from internalizing information and constructing it into a form that is unique and coherent to the individual. Often in science classrooms there is little or no opportunity for students to practice this type of thinking, activities th...

An account of the slow emergence of scientific insight is not in any straightforward way a reliable reflection of a life course. I do not intend here to be explicitly autobiographical but want nevertheless to reflect on whether there is a pattern that has unconsciously guided my scientific work. I believe there is one, if I neglect some noisy interludes. Like Moliere’s Monsieur Jourdain who was...

The development of text mining techniques for biomedical research literature has received increased attention in recent times. However, most of these techniques focus on prose, while much important biomedical data reside in tables. In this paper, we present a corpus created to serve as a gold standard for the development and evaluation of techniques for the automatic extraction of information f...

A case based reasoning application that generates poetry versions of texts provided by the user is presented. Cases consist of a sentence of prose (used as retrieval key) associated with a corresponding poem fragment (used as starting point for the solution). Adaptation takes place by combining phonetic, metrical and lexical information about the words in the different sources the prose message...

Professors from the University of California at Berkeley were administered a 90-min test battery of cognitive performance that included measures of reaction time, pairedassociate learning, working memory, and prose recall Age effects among the professors were observed on tests of reaction time, paired-associate memory, and some aspects of working memory Age effects were not observed on measures...

The origins of the scientific method, epitomized by Sir Francis Bacon’s work in the early 1600s, amount to insistence on direct evidence. This is reflected in the motto of The Royal Society, founded in 1660: Nullius in verba, which roughly means “take nobody’s word for it.”1 Fellows of the Royal Society did not consider a claim to be scientifically established unless it had been demonstrated ex...