Book Are Us

Towards Multi-granularity Multi-facet E-Book Retrieval in China-US Million Book Digital Library

There are more than one million digitalized books (i.e. e-books) so far in China-US Million Book Digital Library Project (MBP for short). It is thus important to design effective and powerful tools that enable users to easily search the required information and appropriately access knowledge in the digital library. Towards this end, currently most digital libraries simply use the traditional me...

Are aliens among us?

Book Reviews TELLING US WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT WATCH

“They are Us—We are Them”

Stigmatization towards persons with mental illnesses is a major quality of care concern. Unfortunately, nurses are no less implicated than other health professions. This article reports the results of an evaluation of a learning intervention for psychiatric nursing students in partnership between Brandon University and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. We describe this intervention as an ...

Second cancers are killing us!

As a Clinical Associate in the Pharmacology Section in the National Cancer Institute in 1967, virtually all of the patients referred to me had far-advanced, metastatic cancers, whether of the breast, colon, prostate, or lung. Treatment choices for disseminated disease were limited to a half dozen Food and Drug Administration–approved cytotoxic agents and another half dozen experimental drugs. F...