Christmas wishes from Benin.

Farewell and Best Wishes

permanent editor-in-chief is selected. With publication of this issue, I have reached a long-planned retirement from the NIEHS and Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP ). The mission of EHP is to serve as a forum for the discussion of the interrelationships between the environment and human health by publishing in a balanced and objective manner the best peer-reviewed research and most curren...

Christmas Days

Some of the achievements at festivities and exhibitions are greeted with surprise. It is not always possible to have the privilege of personal inspection, though those in charge of defectives are usually most ready to give of their precious leisure in showingvisitors what is being done.. The following notes giving different accounts of Christmas activities have been kindly sent to us. They may ...

Christmas disease.

Wishful Thinking - Finding suggestions and ’buy’ wishes from product reviews

This paper describes methods aimed at solving the novel problem of automatically discovering ‘wishes’ from (English) documents such as reviews or customer surveys. These wishes are sentences in which authors make suggestions (especially for improvements) about a product or service or show intentions to purchase a product or service. Such ‘wishes’ are of great use to product managers and sales p...

Wishes for object-oriented languages

For a long time, I have liked to compare the parameter-passing modes of Algol 60 (some of you are probably old enough to remember) with speakers at scientific conferences. Namely, call by value vs. call by name in Algol, and authors of regular papers vs. invited speakers at conferences. This time I am lucky enough to be in the latter category; I also used to say that these are sometimes people ...