Chad Mirkin to Headline LabAutomation 2011

461-464 Insight Mirkin NS.indd

The promise of point-of-care medical diagnostics — tests that can be carried out at the site of patient care — is enormous, bringing the benefits of fast and reliable testing and allowing rapid decisions on the course of treatment to be made. To this end, much innovation is occurring in technologies for use in biodiagnostic tests. Assays based on nanomaterials, for example, are now beginning to...

Chad Outline

The model not only underpredicts civil war onsets, but it also had inconsistent success in its point predictions. It points to 1960-61 as the years Chad was most vulnerable to a civil war (over six percent probability for each of these years). Yet the first civil was onset was not until 1965 when the odds were a bit over one percent, about two-thirds the world average. Although the model does n...

Headline matters

when asked about US politics. " But I think that this country is so powerful and what goes on politically here is so enormously influential, the rest of the world is entitled to have a say. " Although religious groups denounce him on websites and radio talk shows, he has not received abuse at public meetings; religious people tended not to turn up — " which in a way is a shame " , he said. Whil...

Comparing Topiary-Style Approaches to Headline Generation

In this paper we compare a number of Topiary-style headline generation systems. The Topiary system, developed at the University of Maryland with BBN, was the top performing headline generation system at DUC 2004. Topiary-style headlines consist of a number of general topic labels followed by a compressed version of the lead sentence of a news story. The Topiary system uses a statistical learnin...

Hominid revelations from Chad.