In this paper, we revisit author identification research by conducting a new kind of large-scale reproducibility study: we select 15 of the most influential papers for author identification and recruit a group of students to reimplement them from scratch. Since no open source implementations have been released for the selected papers to date, our public release will have a significant impact on...

We present a system to support human recollection with tag clouds, which are created from keywords generated by our algorithms from the use information of Google Calendar and Twitter. The main feature of our research is to weight words using the number of photos taken by users to recall impressive events. We evaluated tag clouds by comparing our approach and a comparative approach, and our expe...

This review describes methods used in comparative effectiveness research (CER). The aim of CER is to improve decisions that affect medical care at the levels of both policy and the individual. The key elements of CER are (a) head-to-head comparisons of active treatments, (b) study populations typical of day-to-day clinical practice, and (c) a focus on evidence to inform care tailored to the cha...

Nematodes are very common animals and they have repeatedly evolved parasitic lifestyles during their evolutionary history. Recently, the genomes of many nematodes, especially parasitic species, have been determined, potentially giving an insight into the genetic and genomic basis of nematodes' parasitism. But, to achieve this, phylogenetically appropriate comparisons of genomes of free-living a...

Comparative effectiveness research includes cohort studies and registries of interventions. When investigators design such studies, how important is it to follow patients from the day they initiated treatment with the study interventions? Our article considers this question and related issues to start a dialogue on the value of the incident user design in comparative effectiveness research. By ...

Bhaskar's Views on Transcendental-Critical Research in Education M. Poorkarimi, Ph.D. A.R. Saadeghzaadeh, Ph.D. K. Baagheri, Ph.D. M. Mehrmohammadi, Ph.D. To explain Bhaskar's views on the very essence of transcendental-critical research and the way it can be conducted in the field of education a deductive approach is taken. This type of research assumes a structured uni...