Mark My Words

Mark My Words

I have previously espoused this view, but it seems to your editor that medical specialties can be viewed using the lexicon of Physics. At one end of the spectrum we find Relativity (The world of the very large like my own specialty, Radiology) and at the other end, the world of the very small: Quantum Mechanics. In this edition, we consider as our review article, another of the ‘quantum’ subjec...

Mark My Words: Tone of Voice Changes Affective Word Representations in Memory

The present study explored the effect of speaker prosody on the representation of words in memory. To this end, participants were presented with a series of words and asked to remember the words for a subsequent recognition test. During study, words were presented auditorily with an emotional or neutral prosody, whereas during test, words were presented visually. Recognition performance was com...

In My Own Words: A Final Portfolio

Per-click, under arrangement, mark-up, and other dirty words.

So, the winners under these CMS proposals are OBs in rural areas and people who make minor mistakes when trying to meet a Stark exception. The losers are diagnostic test purchasers, per-click lease participants (at least when the lessor is a physician), and hospitals and physicians who are involved in UA arrangements. Those left in limbo (since they were not addressed) are block lease participa...

Last Words Mark-up Barking Up the Wrong Tree

The interest in machine-learning methods to solve natural-language-understanding problems has led to the use of textual annotation as an important auxiliary technique. Grammar induction based on annotation has been very successful for the Penn Treebank, where a corpus of English text was annotated with syntactic information. This shining example has inspired a plethora of annotation efforts: co...