Slow euthanasia-or "she will be better off in hospital".

Slow euthanasia-or "she will be better off in hospital".

PROFESSOR MITCHELL: Dr Emerson clearly identified the site of the process correctly, but this is a different sort of process from the ordinary dissection that he was talking about. Did he have aortic medionecrosis ? DR SMITH: He did not have dissection, with blood tracking through the media. PROFESSOR MITCHELL: Would Dr Emerson like to put it all together with investigations and management ? DR...

Which method of teaching would be better cooperative or lecture?

Introduction: Most of the knowledge acquired through lecturing is forgotten rapidly. As dentistry is becoming a more complicated field of study and as new techniques are introduced, the use of modern educational approaches to promote lifelong learning becomes necessary. This study is to compare cooperative teaching method and lecture method in terms of their impact on students' learning and the...

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Will my Spoken Dialogue System be a Slow Learner ?

This paper presents a practical methodology for the integration of reinforcement learning during the design of a Spoken Dialogue System (SDS). It proposes a method that enables SDS designers to know, in advance, the number of dialogues that their system will need in order to learn the value of each state-action couple. We ask the designer to provide a user model in a simple way. Then, we run si...

Turn off the IDO: will clinical trials be successful?

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) is overexpressed in many human cancers and is believed to play a role in tumor immune evasion, but a requirement for IDO in tumor progression has not been formally shown. The study by Smith and colleagues in this issue of Cancer Discovery provides genetic evidence for the importance of IDO in tumorigenesis, which supports the use of IDO inhibitors in clinical t...