Hard Questions, Hard Solutions: Proceduralisation through Impact Assessment in the EU

Answering the Hard Questions

We present an end-to-end system for open-domain non-factoid question-answering. To accomplish this we leverage the information on the ever-growing World Wide Web, and the capabilities of commercial search engines to find the relevant information. Our QA system is composed of three components: (i) query formulation module (QFM) (ii) candidate answer generation module (CAGM) and (iii) answer sele...

Answering the hard questions about thrombosis.

Angiomyoma of the Hard Palate

Leiomyoma is a rare benign neoplasm deriving from smooth muscle. Vascular leiomyoma is its most common subtype in the oral cavity. It may appear at any age with the greatest incidence in the 4th and 5th decade of life. The common manifestation is a slow-growing, asymptomatic, submucousal mass. The diagnosis is only through microscopic examination requiring special staining...

Quilt Judges and Juries: Hard Questions

Delirium in the ICU: time to probe the hard questions

Prevalent in critically ill patients, delirium remains poorly understood and difficult to treat. In a cross-sectional study conducted in 12 countries, delirium was identified in close to one third of patients and was independently associated with increased mortality. While such epidemiological accounts represent an important cornerstone for research, scientific efforts are needed to elucidate t...