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Antacids During Pregnancy Tied to Asthma in Children

Antacids During Pregnancy Tied to Asthma in Children

Taking popular drugs for heartburn, a common complication of pregnancy, raised the risk of asthma in offspring. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/well/family/antacids-during-pregnancy-tied-to-asthma-in-children.html?partner=rss

Parole Condition Barring Church Attendance Is Enjoined

In Manning v. Powers, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 213749 (CD CA, Dec. 13, 2017), a California federal district court granted a preliminary injunction banning the government from enforcing two parole conditions imposed on Sherman Manning, a Baptist minister who had served 25 years in prison for sexual...

Minimalist Kit for the Beginner Cook

Minimalist Kit for the Beginner Cook

Buy Clotilde's latest book, The French Market Cookbook! The fall is near, students are going off to college, and young adults are moving into their first apartment. Outfitting a kitchen for the first time can be daunting: there’s so much stuff available in cookware stores, what does one really...

Learning End-to-End Goal-Oriented Dialog

End-to-end dialog systems, in which all components are learnt simultaneously, have recently obtained encouraging successes. However these were mostly on conversations related to chit-chat with no clear objective and for which evaluation is difficult. This paper proposes a set of tasks to test the...