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Happiness: enough already.

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...

Vitamin D: enough already?

Q&A: Already A Success?

When Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (the organizer of this COLING-86 panel on "Natural Language Interfaces: Ready for Commercial Success?") sent out invitations to panelists, he stated that his goals were "to evaluate three natural language interfaces which were introduced to the commercial market in 1985 and to relate them to current research in computational linguistics." For comparison, he has aske...

The heart is already working.

Understanding the logic of living systems requires knowledge of the mechanisms involved at the levels at which functionality is expressed. This information resides neither in the genome, nor even in the individual proteins that genes code for. No functionality is expressed at these levels. It emerges as the result of interactions between many proteins relating to each other in multiple cascades...

The diaspora has already begun

Purpose – In MIP, Vol. 25 No. 1, Mike Saren argued that academic marketers need to move beyond our “traditional managerial and business confines”. This paper aims to suggest that the discipline is already on the move in that direction, and that social marketing is in the vanguard. Design/methodology/approach – Commissioned as a viewpoint, with permission to “think aloud”. Findings – The paper s...