Caribou Co-Management Needs From Research: Simple questions - Tricky answers

Answers to complex questions cannot be derived from " simple " trials

As we progress in the exciting area of treatment of acute myocardial infarction, two clinical trial methodologies coming from different philosophies and traditions must be considered. Smaller (200-3000 patient), detailed trials focusing on pathophysiology will be referred to as "mini-trials", while mammoth studies (10 000-50 000 patients) designed to measure mortality rates will be referred to ...

Answers to complex questions cannot be derived from 'simple' trials.

As we progress in the exciting area of treatment of acute myocardial infarction, two clinical trial methodologies coming from different philosophies and traditions must be considered. Smaller (200-3000 patient), detailed trials focusing on pathophysiology will be referred to as "mini-trials", while mammoth studies (10 000-50 000 patients) designed to measure mortality rates will be referred to ...

Complex Questions Rarely Have Simple Answers.

The subject of this monograph—sex differences in science and mathematics—is controversial. Although a topic of discussion for years, this issue was brought to public attention again in 2005 by the much-quoted comments of Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, suggesting that at least part of the reason for the dearth of women at the top in math and science professions is a lack...

Automatic Detection of Answers to Research Questions from Medline Abstracts

Given a set of abstracts retrieved from a search engine such as Pubmed, we aim to automatically identify the claim zone in each abstract and then select the best sentence(s) from that zone that can serve as an answer to a given query. The system can provide a fast access mechanism to the most informative sentence(s) in abstracts with respect to the given query.

From Raising Questions to Providing Answers: Reviewing Organizational Learning Research