Shipwrecked to plain sailing

It's not all plain sailing.

Well. I'm well and truly settled into the job now. I've been here six months and things are developing nicely. I say nicely, but what I mean is rather quickly. I am now doing drug rounds unsupervised. I give IV drugs and am competent in phlebotomy.

Multiword expressions: hard going or plain sailing?

Over the past two decades or so, Multi-Word Expressions (MWEs; also called Multi-word Units) have been an increasingly important concern for Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The term MWE has been used to refer to various types of linguistic units and expressions, including idioms, noun compounds, phrasal verbs, light verbs and other habitual collocations. However...

Apery's Double Sum is Plain Sailing Indeed

We demonstrate that also the second sum involved in Apéry’s proof of the irrationality of ζ(3) becomes trivial by symbolic summation. In his beautiful survey [4], van der Poorten explained that Apéry’s proof [1] of the irrationality of ζ(3) relies on the following fact: If a(n) = n

(Sailing to) Byzantium: the Kantian Sublime

COAST-ing Toward Covered Stents for Aortic Coarctation: Not All Plain Sailing!

I t is fundamental to the human psyche to strive for the things we don’t have. This need has driven innovation and technological advancement for millennia. Occasionally, however, this has come at a cost, especially when the pursuit to replicate technology available to others has led to impatience. The saga of large-diameter, balloon-expandable covered stent availability in the United States is ...