Field Notes and Reading Notes

Reading Balbi: theoretical notes

In the clear and exhaustive paper of Juan Balbi (Balbi, 2008) the development of the post rationalistic model of psychotherapy is well synthesized, starting from its origins in behaviour therapy and cognitivism. From an epistemological point of view, Balbi emphasizes both the steady reference to the development of neurosciences deeply influencing the elaboration of this new theoretical framewor...

Field Notes on Field Notes: Informing Technology Support for Biologists

Biology fieldwork generates a wealth of qualitative and quantitative information, an unstructured “bag of data,” requiring substantial labor to coordinate and distill. In the interest of furthering research, we present findings from interviews with 15 biologists and analyses of 13 notebooks. We learned that biologists rely on their notebooks as the primary record of observations, plans, measure...

Notes for Probability Reading Seminar

Autobiographical notes

I was born in Zagreb (Croatia) on October 26, 1936. My parents were Regina (née Pavić) (April17, 1916, Zagreb–March 9, 1992, Zagreb) and Cvjetko Trinajstić (September 9, 1913, Volosko–October 29, 1998, Richmond, Australia).

Automated Proof Reading of Clinical Notes

Misspellings, abbreviations and acronyms are very popular in clinical notes and can be an obstacle to high quality information extraction and classification. In addition, another important part of narrative reports is clinical scores and measurements as doctors infer a patient‟s status by analyzing them. We introduce a knowledge discovery process to resolve unknown tokens and convert scores and...