“Smart” Search Service for Journal Articles

“Smart” Search Service for Journal Articles

The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has come up with a solution for managing information overload. Many such efforts have been around and more will happen. The AI2's solution is - "Semantic Scholar."  It is a free, nonprofit, academic search engine for research papers in computer science and biomedical fields. It utilizes AI (Artificial Intelligence) methods for data mining, natural-language processing, and computer vision to create the search and browsing experiences. When we do a search, we can first view some added terms that the engine suggests for our term. Next, we are provided with filters (very similar to PubMed)…
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Guest post: Dr Jessy Joseph, Program Specialist, IAVI

Guest post: Dr Jessy Joseph, Program Specialist, IAVI

It was in the year 2012, during my post-graduation at the University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi that I was introduced to QMed. I attended a workshop that QMed conducted in UCMS.  I had also heard about them from some of my colleagues. Earlier my professors had provided a brief introduction to literature search. However, I was extremely glad to have attended the QMed workshop following that. During the first workshop, I was introduced to the concepts of search words, boolean operators, Mendeley etc and this time it just made complete sense. This was especially because of the hands-on training the workshop…
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Short course in Biostatistics

Short course in Biostatistics

Thirty-Sixth Short Course in Biostatistics The Biostatistics Resource and Training Center, Department of Biostatistics at Christian Medical College, Vellore is organizing the thirty-sixth Short course in Biostatistics from November 20 – December 05, 2017 at CMC Vellore. The course is mainly designed to train researchers of varied professions and statisticians to competently handle health/medical data and be in a better position to function effectively in a research team. The three specific courses are: Sr. No. Course Date Last date for Registration 1 Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Principles of Epidemiology & SPSS Nov 20-24, 2017 Nov 13, 2017 2 Multiple Linear Regression, Logistic Regression…
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