Sandra Thurman named as new 'AIDS Czar'

Named Entities as New Features for Czech Document Classification

This paper is focused on automatic document classification. The results will be used to develop a real application for the Czech News Agency. The main goal of this work is to propose new features based on the Named Entities (NEs) for this task. Five different approaches to employ NEs are suggested and evaluated on a Czech newspaper corpus. We show that these features do not improve significantl...

Sandra Schmid: Collaring endocytosis

T hroughout her career, Sandra Schmid has been at the leading edge of endocytosis research. It was her laboratory that fi rst identifi ed the GTPase dynamin as a central player in en-docytosis (1). Since then, she's devoted her research efforts to characterizing this critical cellular process (2) and dynamin's role therein, as the protein that collars and then pinches off forming endocytic vesi...

Do We Need a Software Czar?

software have utterly failed. Instead of developing a body of software that’s getting better and better, he says we’ve been creating programs that are brittle, incomprehensible, and nearly impossible to change. Our e orts to solve this problem with open standards and the free ow of information have been misguided. According to him, we need to ap point a software czar, someone vested with absolu...

Thurman • Institutional Responses to Medical Mistakes

Health care institutions must decide whether to inform the patient of a medical error. The barriers to disclosure are an aversion to admitting errors, a concern about implicating other practitioners, and a fear of lawsuits and liability. However, admission of medical errors is the ethical thing to do and may be required by law. When examined, the barriers to such disclosures have little merit, ...

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