Precision (Mis)Education

The Miseducation of the Filipino

In recent years, in various sectors of our society, there have been nationalist stirrings which were crystallized and articulated by the late Claro M. Recto, There were jealous demands for the recognition of Philippine sovereignty on the Bases question. There were appeals for the correction of the iniquitous economic relations between the Philippines and the United States. For a time, Filipino ...

Precision medicine, technologies, and molecular diagnostics

Introduction: Genetics, cellular and molecular medicines are cutting-edge sciences and technologies that play an important role in improving human health and quality of life. In addition, medical and biological sciences have clearly shown that the onset of diseases differs from person to person due to their different genetic profiles and variations in molecular basis. Therefore, it is feasible ...

Precision Chemistry for Precision Medicine

During the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama unveiled plans for a $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative. The details of this plan were laid out by past and present directors of the National Institutes of Health, Harold Varmus and Francis Collins, in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine. While the announcement stood as a public statement of support for funding,...

AccucheckInform II: About Its Accuracy and Precision

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As one of the key methods to extract content semantics and structure from audio, automatic audio classification, especially for a speech and a music, is valuable for content-based audio retrieval, video summary and retrieval, and spoken document retrieval, etc. Because hidden Markov model (HMM) can well model audio signal’s time statistical properties, a left-right discrete HMM is proposed to c...