Background: A precision health care approach is needed in the context of the healthcare system, especially as an effort to improve the self-management activities of diabetes patients. Thus, the purpose of this study was to explore the perception of the possibility of implementing a precision health care program in hospitals through interviews with policymakers and health professionals. Methods...

While there has been much work on computational models to predict readability based on the lexical, syntactic and discourse properties of a text, there are also interesting open questions about how computer generated text should be evaluated with target populations. In this paper, we compare two offline methods for evaluating sentence quality, magnitude estimation of acceptability judgements an...

In this paper, a two-stage partial parser for untagged German sentences is presented. In the first stage, the sentence is segmented into better parsable units according to the Topological Field Model. In the second stage, minimal phrases of NPs, DPs and PPs as well as nominal multiword units are identified in each of the recognized fields. In this paper, we discuss the results of the second sta...

This work addresses the classification of word pairs as instances of lexical-semantic relations. The classification is approached by leveraging patterns of co-occurrence contexts from corpus data. The significance of using dependency information, of augmenting the set of dependency paths provided to the system, and of generalizing patterns using part-of-speech information for the classification...

The current and future food insecurity situation of many nations has been effected by factors like global warming, population growth, bio-energy, low technology acceptance, unfavourable policies, sustainability criteria, changing natural risk-management and subsidies. Food availability is a basic human need and, if left unattended undermines any other development effort. Sustainability-, agricu...

The current article outlines the main issues presented during the 4th Up Close and Personalized (UPCP), International Congress on Personalized Medicine, which took place in Tel Aviv (Israel) on 17–20 June 2015. The main topics presented included: phenotypic and ‘omics’ data in the personalized medicine of diabetes, obesity and oncology; updated reports on large-scale human genetics applied to d...