Dr. Lisa Drage, Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, discusses her article appearing in the January 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, which reveals a 3-fold increase in nontuberculous mycobacteria infections, verified by data collected from the Rochester Epidemiology Project. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/aaykljc

Dr. John Toussaint, Internist and CEO emeritus of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value in Appleton, WI, discusses his article co-authored with Leonard Berry and appearing in the January 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, where he introduces the “lean” methodology in healthcare and explains how to implement it.
Available at: http://tinyurl.com/ag2zoh6

Dr. Jennifer St. Sauver, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences Research at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, discusses her article appearing in the January 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings revealing surprising outcomes on the prevailing medical concerns of patients in Olmsted County, MN.
Available at: http://tinyurl.com/b9e86wd

Dr. Paul Loprinzi, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Exercise Science and at the Lansing School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY, shares the results of a study coauthored with Dr. Manish Kohli and appearing in the January 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings describing the effect of Dr. Paul Loprinzi describes the effect of physical activity and sedentary behavior on PSA levels. and sedentary behavior on PSA levels. Available at:...

Supporting IR Experimentation through Evaluation Infrastructures Dr. Nicola Ferro Department of Information Engineering University of Padua, Italy Abstract: The talk will discuss the need for proper infrastructures to manage the experimental evaluation of multilingual and multimedia information access systems and it will present the most recent achievements of the PROMISE network of excellence in this respect in terms of a modular, flexible, and extensible evaluation infrastructure...

This video is a surreal presentation of a Metabolic Melody by Kevin Ahern (www.davincipress.com/metabmelodies.html for more info). The tune is The Beatle's "Across the Universe." The lyrics and video are by Kevin Ahern and the recording is by David Simmons