Look, Ma! No Pneumococcus!

Look, Ma! No pneumococcus!

Pneumococcal diseases, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, include pneumonia and otitis media, which accounts for some 12 million doctor visits per year in the United States alone. Each year around the world, pneumococcus causes 1.2 million deaths due to pneumonia, 39% of which are in children under the age of five. In a three-year Phase III clinical trial involving 38,000 childre...

Look Ma--no cancer.

'ICRF Human Tumour Innunology Group, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, 91 Riding House Street, London WIP 8BT; 2Department of Oncology and Pathology, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Department of Medical Oncology, Western General Infirmary, Edinburgh EH4 2XU; 'Department of Oncology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, 91 ...

Look Ma , No Hands ! Aspects of Autonomous Vehicle Control

Lively Linear Lisp — ' Look Ma , No Garbage ! ' 1

Linear logic has been proposed as one solution to the problem of garbage collection and providing efficient "updatein-place" capabilities within a more functional language. Linear logic conserves accessibility, and hence provides a mechanical metaphor which is more appropriate for a distributed-memory parallel processor in which copying is explicit. However, linear logic's lack of sharing may i...

"Look Ma, No Hands!" A Parameter-Free Topic Model

It has always been a burden to the users of statistical topic models to predetermine the right number of topics, which is a key parameter of most topic models. Conventionally, automatic selection of this parameter is done through either statistical model selection (e.g., cross-validation, AIC, or BIC) or Bayesian nonparametric models (e.g., hierarchical Dirichlet process). These methods either ...