Death by Suggestion

Bold Suggestion by Smith

Stacia Nordin I appreciate Zlotkin and colleagues’ years of work on the Sprinkle product, and it sounds like the product is much improved from the pill form of micronutrient treatments [1]. I’m not at all opposed to Sprinkle-type products or other nutrient pills for treatment (or in other special situations), but as ten years of international work experience on food and nutrition security issue...

A Suggestion on Suggestion

Query Suggestion by Concept Instantiation

A class of search queries which contain abstract concepts are studied in this paper. These queries cannot be correctly interpreted by traditional keyword-based search engines. This paper presents a simple framework that detects and instantiates the abstract concepts by their concrete entities or meanings to produce alternate queries that yield better search results. 3

Deepening sleep by hypnotic suggestion.

STUDY OBJECTIVES Slow wave sleep (SWS) plays a critical role in body restoration and promotes brain plasticity; however, it markedly declines across the lifespan. Despite its importance, effective tools to increase SWS are rare. Here we tested whether a hypnotic suggestion to "sleep deeper" extends the amount of SWS. DESIGN Within-subject, placebo-controlled crossover design. SETTING Sleep ...

Improved Query Suggestion by Query Search

At the Web Intelligence conference in 2009, Jiang, Zilles, and Holte introduced a novel approach to query suggestion based on query search (QSQS), as well as a system-centered evaluation method. For each potentially relevant document, QSQS creates a complex query—called a lexical alias for the document— that ranks the document in its top 20. A technique called Query Search then builds query sug...