Medical practice is rooted in our dependence on the best available evidence from incremental scientific experimentation and rigorous clinical trials. Progress toward determining the true worth of ongoing practice or suggested innovations can be glacially slow when we insist on following the stepwise scientific pathway, and a prevailing but imperfect paradigm often proves difficult to challenge....

A nationwide and demographically representative sample of 1,166 people responded to a survey exploring choices for a favorite movie monster and reasons underlying the choice. Results of the study indicated that, irrespective of demographics, the vampire is the king of monsters. With a few exceptions (e.g., Chucky, Dracula and sexiness), males and females were generally attracted to the same mon...

A controlled use of omnipresent data can leverage a potential of services never reached before. In this paper, we propose a user driven approach to take advantage of massive data streams. Our solution, named Stream2Text, relies on a personalized and continuous refinement of data to generate texts (in natural language) that provide a tailored synthesis of relevant data. It enables monitoring by ...

Bradford’s law of scattering is said to be about subject scattering in information sources. However, in spite of a corpus of writings about the meaning of the word "subject" and equivalent terms such as "aboutness" or "topicality", the meaning of "subject" has never been explicitly addressed in relation to Bradford's law. This paper introduces a distinction between Lexical scattering, Semantic ...

Reconfiguring graphs via small local changes was one of Ferran Hurtado’s favorite research topics. In fact, he had a web page dedicated to his results in the area which he called ”The flips corner”. In this talk, we will give an overview of the results in the area and highlight some of the impact Ferran has had. Along the way, we will also point out some of the techniques used to prove the main...

I dare say that a total of 72 graduate school and medical school classes over the past 31/2 years, since beginning the M.D.-Ph.D., Program has rendered me qualified to comment on upper-level science education. During that time I have been taught by every technique ever invented, and my performance has been evaluated in every way imaginable. The good news is that, for the most part, my teachers ...

In this paper we consider the most visited site, Xt, of a Poisson process up to time t. Our point of departure from the literature on maximal spacings is our asymptotic analysis of where the maximal spacing occurs (i.e., the size of Xt) and not the size of the spacings.