Mina Bissell: Context is everything

Mina Bissell: Context is everything

M ina Bissell has never been afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, whether on a woman's role in the laboratory or on how a cell's context determines its function. Bissell came to the US from Iran to study chemistry at Bryn Mawr and Radcliffe Colleges, before pursuing a PhD in bacteriology at Harvard Medical School. She moved to California for her postdoc in virol-ogy, before joining the Lawr...

Perspectives on context Context is everything

Context Is Everything : Measuring Institutional Change in Transition Economies

* This paper was prepared while the author was a World Bank's Robert S. McNamara Fellow. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed here are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the World Bank, to its affiliate organizations, or to members of its Board of Directors or the countries they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy...

Context is Everything: Finding Meaning Statistically in Semantic Spaces

This paper introduces Contextual Salience (CoSal), a simple and explicit measure of a word’s importance in context which is a more theoretically natural, practically simpler, and more accurate replacement to tf-idf. CoSal supports very small contexts (20 or more sentences), out-of context words, and is easy to calculate. A word vector space generated with both bigram phrases and unigram tokens ...

Context is everything for dependence receptors in colorectal cancer.

Cancer is a consequence of the accumulation of mutations and epigenetic alterations in oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes. Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing methods and methylation array technology has led to genome-wide analyses of gene alterations in a wide variety of cancers, including colorectal cancer (1). These studies have revealed that there are hundreds to thousands of DN...