Upscaling without innovation: taking the edge off grassroot initiatives with scaling-up in Amsterdam’s Anthropocene forest

alzheimer’s disease; taking the edge off with cannabinoids

Alzheimer's disease; taking the edge off with cannabinoids?

Alzheimer's disease is an age-related neurodegenerative condition associated with cognitive decline. The pathological hallmarks of the disease are the deposition of beta-amyloid protein and hyperphosphorylation of tau, which evoke neuronal cell death and impair inter-neuronal communication. The disease is also associated with neuroinflammation, excitotoxicity and oxidative stress. In recent yea...

Taking the Edge off Cardinality Estimation Errors using Incremental Execution

Query optimization is an essential ingredient for efficient query processing, as semantically equivalent execution alternatives can have vastly different runtime behavior. The query optimizer is largely driven by cardinality estimates when selecting execution alternatives. Unfortunately these estimates are largely inaccurate, in particular for complex predicates or skewed data. We present an in...

Mitigating Information Trust: Taking the Edge off Health Websites

Trusting any information on web is psychosomatic and subliminal by nature. The decision is left on the requestor to assess, judge and corroborate the contents contained in the websites before perceiving it. This is of acute concern when websites deal with sensitive issues like health. There is no standard mechanism that embodies or characterizes how to make these ‘trust’ decisions. Although all...

Learning for Semantic Interpretation : Scaling Up Without

Most recent research in learning approaches to natural language have studied fairly "low-level" tasks such as morphology, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. However, I believe that logical approaches may have the most relevance and impact at the level of semantic interpretation, where a logical representation of sentence meaning is important and useful. We have explored the use of i...