Germanic seeresses through Roman eyes

Through the artist's eyes.

TWENTY-FIVE years ago last month Mr Ernest Morrison FRCS kindly asked me to look after a man whose character and courage I came greatly to admire and whose close friendship I was privileged to enjoy during the remaining five years of his life. Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl was born in Hungary in 1894 and the family later moved to Vienna. Such was his love of paintings that by the age of 16 he had alre...

Looking Through the Patients’ Eyes

Objective: Patient satisfaction is a personal evaluation of health-care services that is often used as an indicator of quality of care. The aim of this study was to identify aspects of hospital care that affect patient satisfaction by examining the structural and convergent validity of an in-house questionnaire. Methods: The sample consisted of 3320 patients discharged from an Italian public ho...

Judge Posner through dissenting eyes.

Through the Eyes of VERTa

This paper describes a practical demo of VERTa for Spanish. VERTa is an MT evaluation metric that combines linguistic features at different levels. VERTa has been developed for English and Spanish but can be easily adapted to other languages. VERTa can be used to evaluate adequacy, fluency and ranking of sentences. In this paper, VERTa’s modules are described briefly, as well as its graphical i...

September 11th through Conspiracists’ Eyes

In an influential analysis of the Pearl Harbor attack, published 40 years ago, Roberta Wohlstetter made her well-known distinction between “signal” and “noise” in the evaluation of intelligence. The signal, which conveys information about an enemy action or intention, may be lost, obscured, or distorted by noise in the form of disinformation, rumors, hoaxes, and a variety of other useless or mi...