Taking a closer look

Taking a closer look at IBD.

Healthcare professionals caring for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) in 2013 are equipped with significantly better knowledge about the disease, its variations, course and complications than in years gone by. Treatment options are improving, and perhaps more importantly, our knowledge of when and how to use existing treatments is becoming sharper. For these reasons, we have deci...

Revision vs. Update: Taking a Closer Look

Belief revision and belief update are two of the most important types of belief change. Although similar in some ways, these two processes are believed to be fundamentally different. In this paper we take a closer look at belief revision (as formalized by Alchourrón, Gärdenfors and Makinson [1]) and belief update (as modelled by Katsuno and Mendelzon [4]). The results we obtain herein show that...

Hari Shroff: Taking a closer look

JCB • VOLUME 214 • NUMBER 4 • 2016 360 Hari Shroff was born in India, but grew up in England and the US. He became interested in animals and plants at an early age—his parents would take Shroff and his brother out to local parks, fi elds, and woods—and he has vivid memories of trying to raise tadpoles in jars and being fascinated by reptiles and amphibians. In one of his earliest scientifi c ex...

Taking a Closer Look at a Simple Bipos Language Model

Chest pain and palpitations: taking a closer look.

This case highlights the importance of considering a wide differential diagnosis in a young patient with chest pain and an abnormal ECG. Rarer causes of myocarditis such as GCM should be sought in patients who develop ventricular arrhythmias or high-grade heart block because the treatment is different and dramatically influences outcome. Our patient is the first reported case of GCM and a concu...