“They never ask, I never ask”: Raising the topic of disease prevention

Phylogenetics for those who never had time to ask.

| Canadian Family Physician • Le Médecin de famille canadien 639 Case scenario Your spouse (also an FP) is ensconced in the living room doing some journal reading when you hear her say, “Wow. I have always wondered what that meant.” You ask her what she is talking about. “Phylogenetics. It is high-tech detective work. It is the analysis of the small genetic changes that viruses and bacteria und...

What you Always Wanted to Know About Datalog (And Never Dared to Ask)

Datalog is a database query language based on the logic programming paradigm; it has been designed and intensively studied over the last five years. W e present the syntax and semantics of Datalog and its use for querying a relational database. Then, we classify optimization methods for achieving efficient evaluations of Datalog queries, and present the most relevant methods. Finally, we discus...

All you always wanted to know about scarless surgery and never dare to ask.

Everything you never wanted to know about circular analysis, but were afraid to ask.

Over the past year, a heated discussion about 'circular' or 'nonindependent' analysis in brain imaging has emerged in the literature. An analysis is circular (or nonindependent) if it is based on data that were selected for showing the effect of interest or a related effect. The authors of this paper are researchers who have contributed to the discussion and span a range of viewpoints. To clari...

What customers really want to know from tourism information systems but never dared to ask

We have developed a natural language query interface for the largest Austrian web-based tourism platform, Tiscover. During a period of 10 days this interface was made publicly available by means of an advertisement on and a hyperlink from Tiscover’s homepage. In this paper, we will describe the results and our insights from analysing the natural language queries collected during this field tria...