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Epilepsy: A Call for Help

Epilepsy is a considerable individual and social economic burden. In properly selected patients, epilepsy surgery can provide significant relief from disease, including remission. However, the surgical treatment of epilepsy lags in terms of knowledge and technology. The problem arises due to its slow adaptation and dissemination. This article explores this issue of a wide treatment gap and its ...

Help is just a phone call away.

On Tuesday, November 24 and Wednesday, November 25, a $15 donation will buy a turkey for a local family and Rexnord will match it as part of the Rexnord Turkey Ticker Challenge! WISN 12 talent will also help out including Melinda Davenport, Toni Valliere, Toya Washington, Patrick Paolantonio, Kathy Mykleby and Joyce Garbaciak. Phone bank hours each day will be 6:00 – 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 – 7:00 p.m.

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Life or Death Decisions: Framing the Call for Help

BACKGROUND Chronic blood shortages in the U.S. would be alleviated by small increases, in percentage terms, of people donating blood. The current research investigated the effects of subtle changes in charity-seeking messages on the likelihood of people responses to a call for help. We predicted that "avoid losses" messages would lead to more helping behavior than "promote gains" messages would...

Paladin: Helping Programs Help Themselves with Internal System Call Interposition

In large software systems some code may not be under the direct control of security conscious developers. This situation arises when dealing with third party libraries, plugins added by users, or code written by a large team’s novice programmer. Securing the whole system is difficult as an error in a library or a malicious plugin can compromise the entire program. To mitigate this, it is desira...