…But It Can Also Provoke Antibody Response

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Microbes Can Damage but Also Help Restore Artifacts

F rom the prefabricated wooden huts of Antarctic explorers in the early 20th century to the enduring limestone ruins of the Mayan city Ek’ Balam (Black Jaguar) built more than 1,200 years ago (Fig. 1), conservators, archaeologists, and other specialists are striving to understand and combat the physical, chemical, and biological processes responsible for the deterioration of these historic stru...

Statistics can lie but can also correct for lies: Reducing response bias in NLAAS via Bayesian imputation

The National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS) is a large scale survey of psychiatric epidemiology, the most comprehensive survey of this kind. A unique feature of NLAAS is its embedded experiment for estimating the effect of alternative orderings of interview questions. The findings from the experiment are not completely unexpected, but nevertheless alarming. Compared to the survey resul...

'Team working can enhance employees' job satisfaction and commitment. It can also be a nightmare'.

Is there a nurse alive whose attention would not be grabbed by a report on team working and the stress it can cause? Probably not. Well, take a look at the Health and Safety Executive website at http://www.hse.gov.uk and there it is in a list of new publications, sandwiched between a statistical report on offshore injuries and one on reducing at-work road traffic accidents. The HSE has produced...

You Can Wear It, But Do They Want to Share It or Stare at It?

Wearable technologies are often used for supporting our daily lives instead of aiming to be entertaining. Yet it is in our daily lives that clothing is used to highlight our personas and engage others. In this paper, we describe what type of social acceptance issues might be worth to consider when it comes to entertaining and engaging wearable technology. Our user study with 10 participants was...