THE AUTHORS' ANSWER TO DISCUSSION BY DR. TOSHIKATSU ICHINOSE

Authors reply to Dr. Kawada's comments.

We thank Dr. Kawada for his insightful comments [1] on our study [2], which highlights the importance of the C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration as a significant risk marker for metabolic syndrome (MetS). Dr. Kawada argued that stratified analyses by gender for the association between CRP concentrations and MetS should be performed in our study, given that there were gender differences in th...

Authors' Reply to Comments from Dr. Guan

To the Editor. We thank Dr. Guan for his interest in our recent article [1]. He has raised some comments regarding possible potential of MT and zinc as therapeutic tools for inflammatory diseases. As he mentions, simply inducing and/or enhancing metallothionein (MT) is harmful, particularly in physiological condition. We want to emphasize that for severe (lethal) inflammatory conditions such as...

A Question and Answer Session on the Meaning of Being Human , with Dr. Gholamreza Aavani

Semi-Supervised Answer Extraction from Discussion Forums

Mining online discussions to extract answers is an important research problem. Methods proposed in the past used supervised classifiers trained on labeled data. But, collecting training data for each target forum is labor intensive and time consuming, thus limiting their deployment. A recent approach had proposed to extract answers in an unsupervised manner, by taking cues from their repetition...

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