Review: Attic Oratory and Performance, by Andreas Serafim

Clinical Results of Atticoantrotomy with Attic Reconstruction or Attic Obliteration for Patients with an Attic Cholesteatoma

OBJECTIVES We aimed to investigate the clinical results of atticoantrotomy in patients with an attic cholesteatoma. METHODS Ninety-eight ears in 98 patients were operated on using atticoantrotomy between October 2002 and December 2006. A retrospective review of the otology database (operative findings and methods, postoperative physical examination and pre- and postoperative audiometry) was p...

Literature Review of the Impact and Need for Attic Ventilation in Florida Homes

Discussion Andreas

Gelman’s article is a thought-provoking mix of opinions and creative methodology. I agree with Gelman that the disjunction of models and exploratory data analysis (EDA) in mainstream statistics is unsound. The assumption that models belong exclusively to confirmatory data analysis (CDA) is easily shown to be wrong in practice. Many uses of models, in particular model selection, are exploratory,...

2016 ISCB Innovator Award: Serafim Batzoglou

2016 marks the awarding of the inaugural ISCB Innovator Award, which honors an ISCB scientist who is within two decades of receiving a graduate degree, has consistently made outstanding contributions to the field, and continues to forge new directions. The inaugural winner is Dr. Serafim Batzoglou (Fig 1), Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Batzoglou will re...

Andreas Kemmerling

Assuming that there are correct basic norms, is there a way to explain their correctness? Paul does not think so, and he argues that a certain family of strategies for explaining the correctness of one particular class of basic epistemic norms does not work. The norms in question are those which concern the acceptance of ID-sentences, i.e. sentences which are, or seem to be, the implicit defini...