The abundance of knowledge-rich information on the World Wide Web makes compiling an online e-textbook both possible and necessary. In our previous work, we proposed an approach to automatically generate an e-textbook by mining the ranked lists of the search engine. However, the performance of the approach was degraded by Web pages that were relevant but not actually discussing the desired conc...

genetic relationship between predisposition to schizophrenia and heredito-constitutional resistance to tuberculous infection." Dr. Shuttleworth doubts that the author's figures warrant this claim as they show a decline of the death rate of tuberculosis at a rate to be expected in any population. To me, the author seems to make a very bold guess when he regards it probable that the common origin...

to detect the earliest disease in the maximum number of patients at least cost to the community. In conclusion, there is offered an ideal community program of eradication of tuberculosis-a disease which still claims 60,000 deaths annually in the United States. This small volume is very readable, authoritative, and well documented. It offers much of interest-and a challenge-to all charged with t...

I scarcely know how to begin this review. The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is no ordinary book. For a start it weighs about one and a quarter stone, and as I know to my cost it is not easy to carry home on foot. An African-style head cushion might help you here. Secondly, as a well meaning colleague said unexpectedly tartly well you've got a lot of reading to do before filing your review. True, ...