Two Multiâ Center Studies Evaluating Locally Delivered Doxycycline Hyclate, Placebo Control, Oral Hygiene, and Scaling and Root Planing in the Treatment of Periodontitis

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Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search

Document recommendation systems for locating relevant literature have mostly relied on methods developed a decade ago. This is largely due to the lack of a large offline gold-standard benchmark of relevant documents that cover a variety of research fields such that newly developed literature search techniques can be compared, improved and translated into practice. To overcome this bottleneck, we have established the RElevant LIterature SearcH consortium consisting of more than 1500 scientists from 84 countries, who have collectively annotated the relevance of over 180 000 PubMed-listed articles with regard to their respective seed (input) article/s. The majority of annotations were contributed by highly experienced, original authors of the seed articles. The collected data cover 76% of all unique PubMed Medical Subject Headings descriptors. No systematic biases were observed across different experience levels, research fields or time spent on annotations. More importantly, annotations of the same document pairs contributed by different scientists were highly concordant. We further show that the three representative baseline methods used to generate recommended articles for evaluation (Okapi Best Matching 25, Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency and PubMed Related Articles) had similar overall performances. Additionally, we found that these methods each tend to produce distinct collections of recommended articles, suggesting that a hybrid method may be required to completely capture all relevant articles. The established database server located at https://relishdb.ict.griffith.edu.au is freely available for the downloading of annotation data and the blind testing of new methods. We expect that this benchmark will be useful for stimulating the development of new powerful techniques for title and title/abstract-based search engines for relevant articles in biomedical research.Peer reviewe

Romans inachevés de l’Histoire et de la mémoire

En mars 1944, sous la rubrique « Choses vues », Les Lettres françaises clandestines décrivent la foule qui se presse autour d’une affiche « Des Libérateurs ? », « très haute, très dramatique avec ses dix médaillons sur un fond rouge-sang », annonçant l’exécution des résistants qui seront connus par la suite comme le « Groupe Manouchian » : « Dans les yeux, aucune réaction malsaine, mais de l’admiration, de la sympathie, comme s’ils étaient des nôtres. » Les Allemands avaient créé une mise en ..

FRAME website and database archive

FRAME is a major AHRC-funded research project into narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France since 1939. Based at the University of Leeds, it is a collaborative project involving the universities of Leeds and Durham. To date its main outputs, apart from the database, are linked below. This is an archive of the website and database which was decommissioned in 2017

French Feminisms 1975 and After

This volume explores contemporary French women’s writing through the prism of one of the defining moments of modern feminism: the writings of the 1970s that came to be known as «French feminism». With their exhilarating renewal of the rules of fiction, and a sophisticated theoretical approach to gender, representation and textuality, Hélène Cixous and others became internationally recognised for their work, at a time when the women’s movement was also a driving force for social change. Taking its cue from Les Femmes s’entêtent, a multi-authored analysis of the situation of women and a celebration of women’s creativity, this collection offers new readings of Monique Wittig, Emma Santos and Hélène Cixous, followed by essays on Nina Bouraoui, Michèle Perrein and Ying Chen, Marguerite Duras and Mireille Best, and Valentine Goby. A contextualising introduction establishes the theoretical and cultural framework of the volume with a critical re-evaluation of this key moment in the history of feminist thought and women’s writing, pursuing its various legacies and examining the ways theoretical and empirical developments in queer studies, postcolonial studies and postmodernist philosophies have extended, inflected and challenged feminist work

Performing the Nation in the Mode Rétro

The mode rétro has played a crucial role in the postwar historiography of the Occupation years in France. This article looks at three films of the 1970s, Lacombe Lucien, L’Affiche rouge, and Monsieur Klein, in order to consider the importance of performance and theatricality, and their interaction with the performatives of Frenchness and nationality. It identifies the fault-line of French and not-French as an important dimension of these texts, and suggests that their power to fascinate French audiences may stem from their mobilization of contemporary interests and anxieties