A Farm Kid Paradox

Give the kid a chance.

I kid you not.

Vivian Siegel is at the Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (e-mail: [email protected]) It is up to each of us to help all the Sarah Palins of this world, and all the Joe the Taxpayers behind them, understand and appreciate the value of all kinds of research, both within and beyond our borders As the Editor of a journal focused on t...

The Comeback Kid?

Balloon angioplasty revolutionized coronary revascularization; however, elastic recoil and restenosis caused by cellular proliferation are major drawbacks of angioplasty. Intracoronary stenting, which could tackle dissections and eliminate elastic recoil, became the next mode of intervention but was limited by stent thrombosis and increased neointimal hyperplasia, leading to in-stent restenosis...

Integration-Kid: A Learning Companion System

This paper describes a learning companion system called Integration-Kid in the domain of learning indefinite integration. A learning companion system is an intelligent tutoring system of a new breed. Apart from the teacher, a learning companion models after an additional agent, called the learning companion. The learning companion acts as a companion for the human student in learning. Thus the ...

A new kid on the block.

The adult heart enlarges and increases in weight in response to ischemic stress and hypertension, a process termed cardiac hypertrophy. However, the heart also increases in size after regular physiological exercise. Cardiac hypertrophy is recognized as an important process in the development of heart failure. Initial results pointed to a clear signaling pattern of physiological hypertrophy afte...