ATG Interviews Sean Pidgeon

Oral health-systemic health: what is the true connection? Interviews by Sean McNamara.

Dr. Howard Tenenbaum (HT): Certainly there are the articles in the scientific literature to consider, those that highlight the potential links between overall health and oral conditions in general and with periodontal disease in particular. While this focus on disease is important, I believe we must also look at the fact that there is evidence to show that the tissues of the oral cavity can act...

Plagiarism Sean

Students are often confused by what constitutes plagiarism in academia and the seriousness with which the offense is treated. The objective of this essay is to explain the issue and provide examples to explain what is plagiarism, and hopefully act as a useful guide.1 Plagiarism is the second worst thing you can do in academic research (the worst thing is to fake your experiments). It is so bad ...

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Hidden Markov models Sean

I n t r o d u c t i o n Computational analysis is increasingly important for inferring the functions and structures of proteins [1] because the speed of D N A sequencing has long since surpassed the rate at which the biological function of sequences can be elucidated experimentally. Established sequence comparison algorithms detect significant similarities between known database sequences and 3...

Interview with Sean Spence

The purpose of using the term the ‘actor’s brain’ was to identify what I hoped would be captured and characterized over the course of the text: namely, those conditions (anatomical, physiological, psychological, etc.) which must pertain within the nervous system of a human being in order for them to be seen to be performing, what appear to be, ‘purposeful’ acts in the world. In other words: Wha...