John Riley Holt. 15 February 1918 — 6 January 2009

Washington University Record, January 15, 2009

Affects, trauma, and mechanisms of symptom formation: a tribute to John C. Nemiah, MD (1918-2009).

John Nemiah was interested in the impact of emotionally traumatic events on mental and bodily processes and in conceptualizing the psychological defenses and deficits that contribute to the development of psychological and somatic symptoms. He viewed dissociation as the central psychological mechanism in the formation of a spectrum of symptoms, and conceptualized alexithymia as a deficit in the...

Gary Riley ORF 2009 White Paper

Recent changes to the pattern matching algorithm used by CLIPS have dramatically improved performance on the classic waltz and manners benchmarks, which are frequently cited as measures of performance for rule-based systems. While the usefulness of these benchmarks is disputed, particularly for product comparisons, many believe that waltz and manners exhibit characteristics of some ‘real world’...

Dr. Nasser Maleki (January 25, 1953 – January 6, 2012)

NCBI News, February 2009

In an effort to make the full potential of the NCBI Web services and underlying databases more available to users, the NCBI has begun a long-term project to improve the relevance and usefulness of search results. This effort is called the Discovery Initiative. A primary goal of the Discovery Initiative is to promote the discovery of previously hidden relationships in the large amount of pre-cal...