Finding common threads

Finding Problem Solving Threads in Online Forum

Online forum is an important source that people use to find answers to questions. Most search engines simply retrieve “relevant” threads, but those are not necessarily good threads in terms of providing quality answers. In this paper we propose a two-step approach to classify online forum threads according to their informativeness in terms of question answering. We use statistical models to fir...

The Common Threads in Program Evaluation

Common threads in persistent viral infections.

Most viral infections are self-limiting, resulting in either clearance of the pathogen or death of the host. However, a subset of viruses can establish permanent infection and persist indefinitely within the host. Even though persisting viruses are derived from various viral families with distinct replication strategies, they all utilize common mechanisms for establishment of long-lasting infec...

Common threads amid diversity Editorial overview

Reserach in Murray Grant’s laboratory focuses predominately on three key themes of the interaction between Pseudomonas syringae and Arabidopsis thaliana: (i) how bacterial type III effectors suppress basal defense and promote nutrition, (ii) establishment of systemic immunity, and (iii) the mechanisms underlying function of the RPM1 disease resistance protein. Central to this research is the ne...

Finding Common Ground

For more than two decades, capacitive sensing has played a prominent role in human-computer interaction research. Capacitive sensing has become ubiquitous on mobile, wearable, and stationary devices—enabling fundamentally new interaction techniques on, above, and around them. The research community has also enabled human position estimation and whole-body gestural interaction in instrumented en...