Editorial: What Can We Expect from Data Scientists

Coronary angioplasty--what can we reasonably expect?

What can we expect from omega-3 fatty acids?

Omega-3 fatty acids are abundant in fish oil. A high dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids has been strongly linked to lower rates of cardiovascular disease in epidemiologic studies. Fish oil supplements lower triglyceride levels and may have other benefits such as preventing arrhythmias, reducing inflammation (although they have minimal impact on C-reactive protein), inhibiting platelet aggreg...

What we Expect from Digital Libraries

Digital Libraries have been the subject of more than a decade of attention by researchers and developers, and yet in all this time the implementations have not matched the promises. By far the majority of systems have concentrated on content and provided limited or basic functions for users. In this article we offer a new look at what can be expected from a digital library system based on conte...

What Do We Expect from Our Friends?∗

We conduct a field experiment in a large real-world social network to examine how subjects expect to be treated by their friends and by strangers who make allocation decisions in modified dictator games. While recipients’ beliefs accurately account for the extent to which friends will choose more generous allocations than strangers (i.e. directed altruism), recipients are not able to anticipate...

Editorial What Can We Infer from Double Dissociations?

The joint aim of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuropsychology is to describe the functional architecture of the human mind. That is, to identify, characterize, and enumerate the fundamental mental processes underlying human behaviour. In both of these fields, behaviour is measured in terms of performance on a wide range of tasks that are presumed to involve different combinations of menta...