Jimminy is a wearable personal note-taking and note-archival application that automatically displays notes that might be relevant to the wearer in his current environment. The system selects old notes to show on a head-up display based on the wearer’s current location, people in the immediate area, and the subject-line and contents of any current notes being written. This paper describes an exp...

Medical entity recognition, a basic task in the language processing of clinical data, has been extensively studied in analyzing admission notes in alphabetic languages such as English. However, much less work has been done on nonstructural texts that are written in Chinese, or in the setting of differentiation of Chinese drug names between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Here...

These notes were prepared for International Workshop on Harmonic and Quasiconformal Mappings in Chennai, August 2010. They are based on several papers written jointly with Tadeusz Iwaniec, Jani Onninen, and Ngin-Tee Koh. The source papers are available from www.arxiv.org

These are lecture notes for the course: written in LaTeX2ε since I need much mathematics, and in English since Hebrew is still more difficult to write mathematics in (yet).

These notes are written to accompany my class Political Science W4210 in the political science program at Columbia University. They are in progress. Please send comments and corrections to me at: [email protected] This is page iii Printer: Opaque this

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Written and verbal communication skills are important skills for all physicians. While verbal skills are taught and assessed in medical school, medical students report limited instruction in written communication skills. This study examined the impact of a curriculum delivered during a 6-week clinical rotation in Internal Medicine on the objective assessment of medical...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the local use of written "Do not resuscitate" orders to designate inpatients unsuitable for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac arrest. DESIGN Point prevalence questionnaire survey of inpatients' medical and nursing records. SETTING 10 acute medical and six acute surgical wards of a district general hospital. PARTICIPANTS Questionnaires were filled ...

These notes survey some basic results in toric varieties over a field F , with examples and applications. A computer algebra package (written by the author) is described which deals with both affine and projective toric varieties in any number of dimensions (written in both MAGMA [MAGMA] and GAP [GAP]). Among other things, the package implements the desingularization procedure, constructs some ...

BACKGROUND When promoting active travel to school, it is important to consider school and district policies as well as attitudes of school and district administrators. METHODS School principals and district officials in South Carolina participated in the School Travel Survey. Frequency distributions and Chi-squared tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Three hundred fourteen persons ...

As an example of “categorification”, I presented Atiyah’s axioms [1] for a topological quantum field theory (TQFT) to undergraduates in the University of Chicago’s summer 2002 REU. These notes are written for the use of the participants and to test my own understanding.The aim is just to make very categorically precise what the basic definitions are. Also, there are some details in Atiyah’s ori...