World view: What can little Europe do?

World Stroke Day 2009: what can I do?

But What Can I Do? The predisposing factors for stroke are well known but poorly controlled. A commitment to find out one’s risk for stroke and to follow through on its management could cut the risk by one third for men, one half for women, and one half for ischemic stroke for both men and women.3 If I can identify and manage my stroke risk, it almost certainly will influence my family and frie...

tube thoracostomy (chest tube) removal in traumatic patients: what do we know? what can we do?

chest tube (ct) or tube thoracostomy placement is often indicated following traumatic injuries. premature movement of the chest tube leads to increased hospital complications and costs for patients. placement of a chest tube is indicated in drainage of blood, bile, pus, drain air, and other fluids. although there is a general agreement for the placement of a chest tube, there is little consensu...

World Glaucoma Day, March 6, 2008--what can you do?

What HMMs Can Do

Since their inception almost fifty years ago, hidden Markov models (HMMs) have have become the predominant methodology for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems — today, most state-of-the-art speech systems are HMM-based. There have been a number of ways to explain HMMs and to list their capabilities, each of these ways having both advantages and disadvantages. In an effort to better under...

A Shiite innatist conception of reason, and what it can do for religious education (RE)

In this study I have argued for a theoretical foundation of a coherent and defensible religious education (RE). It has been said that for RE to be accepted as a reasonable subject matter it should be researchable. But for a subject to be researchable, or research based, it needs to be supported by reason, a kind of reason that have a public and universal character. On the other hand we need a c...