But does it please the Prince?

But Does It Increase Survival Rate?

In the early 1960s, we used the few antiarrhythmic drugs available empirically, presuming that every premature ventricular contraction had to be suppressed. This presumption spurred ever greater effort, much of it going into antiarrhythmic drug development.' Throughout the 1980s, one new drug was being developed about every six months,2 and the number of antiarrhythmic prescriptions rose expone...

We Prefer Sons But Does It Matter

Highly imbalanced sex ratios suggest that Asian families prefer sons. This preference may be expressed as reduction in parental investment in daughters when a younger son is born. This study investigates the gender effect of a younger sibling on older daughter's schooling. We construct a unique dataset linking national administrative data on college entrance examinations (CET) to birth registry...

Opening the lungs: do it slowly, please.

Welcome Prince George, but if only...

To cite: Quilliam S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2013;39:295–296. BACKGROUND Welcoming the birth of new life is surely at the heart of every Journal reader’s professional role. So I hope I won’t be accused of being populist (or monarchist, or indeed anti-monarchist) as I devote this issue’s Consumer Correspondent column to the recent appearance of the British third-in-line to the throne. For...

Computer, Tell Me a Joke ... but Please Make it Funny: Computational Humor with Ontological Semantics

Computational humor is a subdiscipline of computational linguistics with applications in human computer interfaces, edutainment, affective computing, intelligent agents, and other areas. Based on ontological semantics, we develop the resources and algorithms the computer needs to understand and produce humor, in principle and on a detailed example. Our ultimate output will not be that of a toy ...