1. Grace of the Virtues Eleanor, the matriarch of her family, is dying and unable to stand. Grace manages to lift her to her feet. She tries to get Eleanor to walk, pushing her gently along. But Eleanor falls again. Grace appears very distressed, and shrieks loudly. She persists in trying to get Eleanor to stand, unsuccessfully. Grace stays by the fallen figure of Eleanor for another hour, whil...

Is it possible to achieve a safer software in C by limiting its use? As the C programming language still is very much alive, especially within the embedded and real-time community much effort has been put into the development of such standards. There are many well known problems in the ANSI/ISO C language specification with or without measurements of fault statistics. And there also exists seve...

Prologue Can Humanities Be Taught? This special issue of The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine is a happy occasion for its editors. The Program for Humanities in Medicine was established in 1983 to remind medical care personnel, nurses and physicians, students and faculty, of the unmeasurable aspects of medicine. A major aim, as yet unfulfilled, was to encourage faculty in the clinical disci...

Objective: To determine whether strict glycemic control during pregnancy combined with elective early induction of labor reduces the rate of macrosomia, birth trauma, and it’s influences on the C/S rate. Materials and Methods: Data were collected on the outcome of gestational diabetes (GDM) from 1/1980 to 12/1998. We investigated the relationship between mode of delivery, macrosomia (>4000 g), ...

The richness of the (Semantic) Web lies in its ability to link related resources as well as data across the Web. However, while relations within particular datasets are often well defined, links between disparate datasets and corpora of Web resources are rare. The increasingly widespread use of cross-domain reference datasets, such as Freebase and DBpedia for annotating and enriching datasets a...

A growing number of social scientists fear that marriage may be on the rocks and few doubt that matrimony, as we have known it, has undergone a wrenching period of change in the past several decades. Andrew Cherlin, a leading sociologist of the family, speaks of "the de-institutionalization of marriage," conceding a point to conservative commentators who have argued that marriage and the family...

that make these explorations more efficient. One possible solution is building social information-seeking systems utilizing social cues provided by a large number of users. Information retrieval researchers typically depict information seeking as a solitary activity of a single person using a Web browser. This view is slowly changing. Other articles in this theme issue point to recent interest ...