Recognizing Unrecognized Risk

Recognizing unrecognized risk: the evolving role of ventricular functional assessment in population-based studies.

The rapid evolution of advanced cardiac imaging technologies has resulted in enhanced detection of subclinical disease with the potential for early implementation of therapeutic strategies and reduction in subsequent morbidity and mortality. Noninvasive assessment of ventricular function can provide evidence of prevalent coronary artery disease and cardiomyopathy and could supplant electrocardi...

Nocturnal Wakefulness as a Previously Unrecognized Risk Factor for Suicide.

OBJECTIVE Suicide is a major public health problem and the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. The identification of modifiable risk factors is essential for reducing the prevalence of suicide. Recently, it has been shown that insomnia and nightmares significantly increase the risk for suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, and death by suicide. While both forms of sleep disturbanc...

Superficial venous thrombosis: recognizing the risk.

In this issue of Blood, Roach and colleagues show that individuals with prior superficial venous thrombosis are at increased risk of developing venous thromboembolism when exposed to acquired clinical risk factors.

Unrecognized hyponatremia and hypochloremia.

Recognizing Humor Without Recognizing Meaning

We present a machine learning approach for classifying sentences as one-liner jokes or normal sentences. We use no deep analysis of the meaning to try to see if it is humorous, instead we rely on a combination of simple features to see if these are enough to detect humor. Features such as word overlap with other jokes, presence of words common in jokes, ambiguity and word overlap with common id...