“BUT THEN, WHAT WOULD CRITICISM BE?” BALZAC READS STENDHAL, MACHADO READS EÇA

What definition of information would be emancipatory one?

Background and Aim: Human-information interaction, either in every day life or in research approaches, depends on pre-assumptions about “what information is”. Sometimes this pre-assumptions become axiomtic in a way that we must return to primary concerns about them to explore new social phenomenas. Information as an object is one of pre-assumptions. In this paper, the mentioned pre-assumptions ...

CoLoRMap: Correcting Long Reads by Mapping short reads

MOTIVATION Second generation sequencing technologies paved the way to an exceptional increase in the number of sequenced genomes, both prokaryotic and eukaryotic. However, short reads are difficult to assemble and often lead to highly fragmented assemblies. The recent developments in long reads sequencing methods offer a promising way to address this issue. However, so far long reads are charac...

[Who reads (but does not quote) Brazilian science].

A Mathematician Reads

New York University mathematical physicist Alan Sokal published in the postmodern humanities journal Social Text a parody entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” [1]. His point in doing so was to test whether the field of “cultural studies of science” was seriously lacking in “intellectual standards”. His article is nonsense from start to...

Radiology double reads.

To cite: Sahni VA, Khorasani R. BMJ Qual Saf 2016;25:569–571. Diagnostic errors in radiology reports can result in patient harm, lead to unnecessary additional testing or interventions, or otherwise diminish the quality of care delivery. 2 In this issue, Lauritzen et al retrospectively evaluated the impact of a quality assurance process using double reads on changes made to abdominal CT reports...