Because I’m Worth It! (More than Others ...)

Elizabeth Blackburn: Because science is worth it

E lizabeth Blackburn is the leading lady of telomere biology. Her discovery of telomerase with her graduate student Carol Greider in 1985 revealed for the fi rst time how the complex, repetitive ends of chromosomes—regions that normal DNA replication machinery can't cope with—are maintained (1).< I D > J C B 1 8 0 6 p i 1. e p s < / I D > Without telomerase, our chromosomes would shorten increm...

Intensive Care: Because you’re worth it?

documentary called 23 Week Babies: the Price of Life. My thoughts and feelings as I watched this programme were not always straightforward. The documentary was moving, sometimes profoundly so. How could it avoid emotional impact when it dealt with life and death, compassion and vulnerability, hope and loss? There were other times when I found myself irritated and frustrated with the presenter a...

Some spikes are more informative than others.

Editor's Note: These short, critical reviews of recent papers in the Journal, written exclusively by graduate students or postdoctoral fellows, are intended to summarize the important findings of the paper and provide additional insight and commentary. For more information on the format and purpose of the Journal Club, please see What is the language of the brain when it links perception and be...

When some are more equal than others.

Some Terms are more Interchangeable than Others

This paper describes the work done by the Information Retrieval Research Group at Océ Technologies B.V., for the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2001. We have participated in the Dutch Monolingual task and submitted three runs. In this paper we introduce a new method for relevance computation using two new query operators. This method is meant to be applied to Multilingual Retrieval in t...