FORAGERS GET THE MESSAGE

How to get your message across.

Science reporting to the public: does the message get twisted?

© 2004 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Lay people get a substantial amount of information about health and related topics from the media. Communicating with the public through the media can be vexing for medical professionals because they lack direct control over the final reporting. It is the reporter’s framing of the information and his or her words that reach the public, rather...

Renal-dose dopamine: will the message now get through?

Quality-of-life policing Do offenders get the message?

In the 1990s, the New York City Police Department expanded its focus on reducing behaviors that detract from the overall quality of life (QOL) in the city. Many have credited this effort for the decline in the city's overall crime rate. They often cite the fixing broken windows argument, which maintains that reducing disorder sets off a chain of events leading to less crime. However, systematic...

Using Context to Get Novel Recommendation in Internet Message Streams

Novelty detection algorithms usually employ similarity measures with the previous seen and relevant documents to decide if a document is of user’s interest. The problem that arises by using this approach is that the system might recommend redundant documents. Thus, it has become extremely important to be able to distinguish between“redundant”and “novel” information. To address this limitation, ...