user: Given a reference text about the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), what research does the society support?

assistant: The ASCI supports research into basic mechanisms and treatment of human diseases and to the education of the future generations of physician-scientists.

user: Do I need Hadoop to run Spark?

assistant: No, but if you run on a cluster, you will need some form of shared file system (for example, NFS mounted at the same path on each node). If you have this type of filesystem, you can just deploy Spark in standalone mode.

user: Who owns ITV?

assistant: ITV plc owns all 13 ITV regions in England and Wales as well as UTV in Northern Ireland. STV Group owns the STV region in Scotland.