Bold Suggestion by Smith

Bold Suggestion by Smith

Stacia Nordin I appreciate Zlotkin and colleagues’ years of work on the Sprinkle product, and it sounds like the product is much improved from the pill form of micronutrient treatments [1]. I’m not at all opposed to Sprinkle-type products or other nutrient pills for treatment (or in other special situations), but as ten years of international work experience on food and nutrition security issue...

A Suggestion on Suggestion

Query Suggestion by Concept Instantiation

A class of search queries which contain abstract concepts are studied in this paper. These queries cannot be correctly interpreted by traditional keyword-based search engines. This paper presents a simple framework that detects and instantiates the abstract concepts by their concrete entities or meanings to produce alternate queries that yield better search results. 3

By Julie Smith

The software industry and IT departments are facing extreme pressures to provide new applications that add value in today’s competitive environment. Whereas in the 1990s companies concentrated on implementing systems that reautomated functions to provide specific benefits, such as Y2K processing, today’s market demands new applications, and better integration within and between organizations. T...

Deepening sleep by hypnotic suggestion.

STUDY OBJECTIVES Slow wave sleep (SWS) plays a critical role in body restoration and promotes brain plasticity; however, it markedly declines across the lifespan. Despite its importance, effective tools to increase SWS are rare. Here we tested whether a hypnotic suggestion to "sleep deeper" extends the amount of SWS. DESIGN Within-subject, placebo-controlled crossover design. SETTING Sleep ...