NIH opens top level biosafety facility

ABSL-4 Aerobiology Biosafety and Technology at the NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick

The overall threat of a viral pathogen to human populations is largely determined by the modus operandi and velocity of the pathogen that is transmitted among humans. Microorganisms that can spread by aerosol are considered a more challenging enemy than those that require direct body-to-body contact for transmission, due to the potential for infection of numerous people rather than a single ind...

NIH opens first trial of HIV vaccines in children.

vaccination of high-risk patients reduced winter hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and tests for respiratory ailments by 10% to 20%. As part of a three-year randomized trial, physicians of patients at high risk for serious illness from influenza infection in the study group received computer reminders to take preventive-care actions, while physicians of high-risk patients in the control ...

Top-k Retrieval Using Facility Location Analysis

The top-k retrieval problem aims to find the optimal set of k documents from a number of relevant documents given the user’s query. The key issue is to balance the relevance and diversity of the top-k search results. In this paper, we address this problem using Facility Location Analysis taken from Operations Research, where the locations of facilities are optimally chosen according to some cri...

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Top-level rejection

The most senior cleric in the Anglican church has provided an unexpected boost to Britain's growing concern about the influence of anti-evolutionary beliefs by saying that he does not believe that creationism should be taught in schools. Giving his first, wide-ranging, interview to The Guardian newspaper, the archbishop, Rowan Williams, was emphatic in his criticism of creationism being taught ...