Do Urgent Cardiac Cases Utilise More Resources than Elective? A Single Unit Audit

Do Characters Abuse More Than Words?

Although word and character n-grams have been used as features in different NLP applications, no systematic comparison or analysis has shown the power of character-based features for detecting abusive language. In this study, we investigate the effectiveness of such features for abusive language detection in user-generated online comments, and show that such methods outperform previous state-of...

What do ye more than others?

Do juveniles bully more than young offenders?

This study compares bullying behaviour among juvenile and young offenders and incorporates two different methods to measure bullying. Ninety-five male juvenile and 196 male young offenders completed two questionnaires, one that measured bullying directly and one that measured behaviours indicative of "being bullied" or of "bullying others". Juveniles perceived a higher extent of bullying than y...

Does language do more than communicate emotion?

Language can certainly communicate emotions, but growing research suggests that language also helps constitute emotion by cohering sensations into specific perceptions of "anger," "disgust," "fear," etc. The powerful role of language in emotion is predicted by a constructionist approach, which suggests that emotions occur when sensations are categorized using emotion category knowledge supporte...

Do GPs know more than other doctors?

In this issue of the European Journal of General Practice, Barais et al., present their glossary of diagnostic reasoning terms [1]. COGITA is a European group of general practitioners (GPs) reflecting on diagnostic reasoning and decision making, perhaps more widely known under their popular name ‘The Gut Feeling Group’. References of their publications can be found on http://www.gutfeelings.eu....