Complex Earthquake Raises Complex Questions

A complex web of questions.

This CQ special section on consent and organ donation is both timely and policy relevant. Organ donation policy continues to generate considerable interest not only within the academic community but also among healthcare professionals and the wider public. There are at least three main reasons for this. First, the very nature of transplantation makes it an unusual and interesting area of health...

Finding Answers to Complex Questions

Statistical Learning of Complex Questions

The problem of auxiliary fronting in complex polar questions occupies a prominent position within the nature versus nurture controversy in language acquisition. We employ a model of statistical learning which uses sequential and semantic information to produce utterances from a bag of words. This linear learner is capable of generating grammatical questions without exposure to these structures ...

Suspension recalls past cases , raises questions

When the University sent sopho­ more guard Kyle McAlarney home last Monday, it wasn’t just the bas­ ketball p lay e r’s nam e th a t got splashed across national h ead ­ lines. The d ec ision to su sp en d McAlarney — who was arrested Dec. 29 on charges of marijuana possession — im m ediately p ro ­ je c te d N otre Dam e in to the debate. “T he bad new s is everyone always looks at cases that ...

Population aging raises questions for policymakers.

This issue of Asia-Pacific Population and Policy examines the size of the elderly population in Asia and projections for the next 50 years. It discusses some of the characteristics of Asia's elderly population. Information is based on a study of population momentum and population aging at the East-West Center prepared by the UN for the 32 countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia with popu...