Are MPAs effective?

In Situ MPAS-Ocean Image-based Visualization

Due to power and I/O constraints associated with extreme scale scientific simulations, in situ visualization and analysis to will become a critical component to scientific discovery. The options for extreme scale visualization and analysis are often presented as a stark contrast: write files to disk for interactive, exploratory analysis, or perform in situ analysis to save data products about p...

Are Homeopathic Remedies Effective?

Having considered the limitations and the challenges of homeopathic treatments one would wonder if this modality is just another manifestation of the placebo response. Thus, subjecting homeopathic remedies to the same rigors of testing as those of pharmaceuticals through placebo-controlled clinical trials (RCT) would imply testing a placebo form against another. The responses observed from home...

Are Effective Leaders Creative?

This paper explains in layperson’s terms how an agent-based model was used to investigate the widely held belief that creativity is an important component of effective leadership. Creative leadership was found to increase the mean fitness of cultural outputs across an artificial society, but the more creative the followers were, the greater the extent to which the beneficial effect of creative ...

Structured Grammars are Effective

Top-down parsing has received much attention recently. Parsing expression grammars (PEG) allows construction of linear time parsers using packrat algorithm. These techniques however suffer from problem of prefix hiding. We use alternative formalism of relativized regular expressions REG REG for which top-down backtracking parser runs in linear time. This formalism allows to construct fast parse...

Pelagic MPAs: the devil is in the details.