Carbohydrate quality and health: distilling simple truths from complexity

Simple truths from medical students: perspectives on the quality of clinical learning environments.

BACKGROUND The opportunity for students to learn whilst in a clinical placement is a central component of undergraduate medical education and an educationally conducive clinical environment is essential if the student is to optimise learning opportunities. AIM This study, which was conducted by medical students, and amongst medical students aims to investigate the key conditions that students...

A Simple Apparatus for Distilling Water

Distilling complexity to advance cardiac tissue engineering.

The promise of cardiac tissue engineering is in the ability to recapitulate in vitro the functional aspects of a healthy heart and disease pathology as well as to design replacement muscle for clinical therapy. Parts of this promise have been realized; others have not. In a meeting of scientists in this field, five central challenges or "big questions" were articulated that, if addressed, could...

Simple lessons from complexity

The complexity of the world is contrasted with the simplicity of the basic laws of physics. In recent years, considerable study has been devoted to systems that exhibit complex outcomes. This experience has not given us any new laws of physics, but has instead given us a set of lessons about appropriate ways of approaching complex systems.

Sifting Truths from Multiple Low-Quality Data Sources

In this paper, we study the problem of assessing the quality of co-reference tuples extracted from multiple low-quality data sources and finding true values from them. It is a critical part of an effective data integration solution. In order to solve this problem, we first propose a model to specify the tuple quality. Then we present a framework to infer the tuple quality based on the concept o...