Her father, Spyros (Vangelis Mourikis), an architect, is dying of an unspecified disease, and their conversations reveal an exquisitely gloomy sensibility, aspects of which he has passed on to his daughter.
In our work, we focused on evaluating the effectiveness of a large set of features for detecting Alzheimer's disease in unstructured conversations.
Al Zelicoff, a physician and expert on biological weapons at the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, who is developing a computerized system to allow epidemiologists to track suspicious disease outbreaks, said his conversations with federal investigators had alarmed him.
Older respondents were more likely to have experienced conversations regarding "disease" (p = 0.041) and "nursing care of family" (p = 0.017).
Computers, without guidance, will be able to spot disease, engage humans in conversation and creatively outsmart world champions in competition.
Ever since Rock Hudson gave a face to AIDS and softened the position of Ronald Reagan, we have known it is possible for Hollywood stars to ameliorate the stigma of disease and spark recognition, conversation and inspiration.
John Osborn, the president and chief executive of BBDO New York, said the effort was intended to increase the sense of urgency about the diseases and encourage conversation.
A woman has conversations with her disease, pleading with it to go easy on her, then whispering a promise to develop her creative side.
The RareConnect platform partners with over 600 rare disease patient organizations to stimulate conversations across 82 disease-specific communities and over 100 discussion groups.
The women explained that the word cancer by itself is a source of fear that is overstated by the society, which leads to it being referred to in people's conversations as "that disease".
