Who's on first? what's on second?

Investigating the process of problem posing

Abstract: In the first part of this study, first a brief introduction of problem posing was present and then, some frameworks and classifications of problem posing were reviewed. In the second part of the study the research that has been conducted in Iran was introduced. This quasi-experimental study was conducted with experimental and control groups which aimed to investigate the impact of fos...

Who's to say what's funny? A computer using Language Models and Deep Learning, That's Who!

Humor is a defining characteristic of human beings. Our goal is to develop methods that automatically detect humorous statements and rank them on a continuous scale. In this paper we report on results using a Language Model approach, and outline our plans for using methods from Deep Learning.

Conceptual and institutional gaps: understanding how the WHO can become a more effective cross-sectoral collaborator

BACKGROUND Two themes consistently emerge from the broad range of academics, policymakers and opinion leaders who have proposed changes to the World Health Organization (WHO): that reform efforts are too slow, and that they do too little to strengthen WHO's capacity to facilitate cross-sectoral collaboration. This study seeks to identify possible explanations for the challenges WHO faces in add...

Methanogenesis: genes, genomes, and who's on first?

Smoking causes cancer!

What is it famous for? HighWire has created web sites for accessing the full text of top biomedical journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PNAS. How did a little company get started so fast? Amazingly, HighWire isn't even incorporated yet. It's a staff project of the Stanford University Library, with all expenses being run out of the library budget. Many of the employees ...