Lament for Syria

An AIer's Lament

It, is interesting t,o note that there is no agreed upon definition of artificial intrlligence. Why is this interesting? Because government agencies ask for it, software shops claim to provide it, popular magazines and newspapers publish articles about, it, dreamers base their fant,asies on it, and pragmatists criticize and denounce it. Such a stat,c of affairs has persisted since Newell, Simon...

Radiologists' lament.

TO THE EDITOR: This letter of lament was prompted by a recently overheard complaint by a first-year intern to her colleagues that radiologists were not “obeying” her! Her comment led us to review her last five imaging requests (“orders”). After discussion with other radiologists, three of these requests were considered inappropriate. Major reasons for inappropriate imaging investigations are la...

Anesthesiologist's Lament.

A fter a day of keeping up the shtick, As a colleague calls it, all the backslapping And one-liners that put the staff at ease, Dodging comebacks of passing gas and napping, The old clichés of caring for the sick While saving lives and stamping out disease, I settle in for an all-night case on call And let myself consider the surreal: Some sorry bastard known as Stat Unknown Who passed out, I a...

The spectroscopist's lament.

lament network by dynamic cotranslation

Intermediate fi lament (IF) proteins are assembled into either homopolymer or heteropolymer 10-nm-diam cytoskeletal fi laments in a complex multistep process (Strelkov et al., 2003). Pairs of protein chains interact in parallel and in register to form an α-helical coiled–coil dimer, which is the basic building block of IF. Little is known about the mechanisms responsible for dimer formation. Ho...