Many Questions: Grid Architecture Provides Answers [From the Editor]

Natural Language Processing: many questions, no answers

Computational Linguistics, as a subfield of Linguistics, or Natural Language Processing (NLP), as a subfield of Artificial Intelligence (two research areas that nowadays can be safely considered as merged) concentrate on the “study of computer systems for understanding and generating natural language” [10], in order to develop “a computational theory of language, using the notions of algorithms...

Personalized psychiatry: many questions, fewer answers.

Clinical practice in many areas of medicine is shifting toward personalized treatment. In other words, clinicians aim to treat patients based on their individual characteristics, including clinical presentation and/or biological markers. Biomarkers can help clinicians select the most effective treatments or reduce the risk of side effects by avoiding certain treatments in susceptible patients. ...

Pulmonary Cryptococcosis in the Immunocompetent Patient—Many Questions, Some Answers

Background.  There are no prospective data regarding the management of pulmonary cryptococcosis in the immunocompetent patient. Clinical guidelines recommend oral fluconazole for patients with mild to moderate symptoms and amphotericin B plus flucytosine followed by fluconazole for severe disease. It is unclear whether patients who have histological evidence of Cryptococcus neoformans but negat...

Democratic consolidation in the Third World : Many questions , any answers ?

The paper is concerned with democratisation in the Third World since the 1980s, a period when dozens of Third World countries underwent at least some measure of democratic change. The paper, both general and comparative, rather than specific and focused on one or several countries, aims to try to help locate discussions in the workshopÕs analytical framework: to assess the extent of democratic ...

Language and hybrids: too many answers for too few questions.