Engineering’s Academy Awards

Cell Culture: Academy Awards

OnFebruary 27, 2011, Hollywood’s royalty will gather in Kodak Theater to honor the best films of 2010. To add a scientific twist on this year’s Academy Awards, Cell Culture dives beneath the skin of the top films’ protagonists, identifying a brain structure that impacts our ‘‘friend count,’’ genes that make a king stammer, a cellular fragmentation process that saves a solo hiker, and stem cells...

Decision Rules for the Academy Awards Versus Those for Elections

Many researchers have evaluated various decision rules to determine how well they perform in selecting winners in elections. They have established criteria to measure how well these rules perform in selecting winners with the greatest mass appeal in general elections. We evaluate such decision rules on their performance in determining winners of awards for outstanding accomplishment. We examine...

Die psychologischen Grundlagen des Social-Engineerings

Social-Engineering ist eine Angriffsstrategie, die nicht die Technik als Opfer auserkoren hat. Stattdessen wird hier viel lieber – und vor allem effizienter – der Mensch, bzw. sein Verhalten angegriffen. Dieser Artikel zeigt, wie Social-Engineering funktioniert und erklärt die zugrundeliegenden Tricks anhand sozialpsychologischer Studien und Experimente. Außerdem werden Beispiele, Warnsignale u...

Konzept eines modulbasierten Engineerings in der Anlagenautomatisierung

Awards of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's 2013 Annual Conference.

Epidemiologic research shows a growing trend of yoga and meditation practice amongst children and adolescents. Furthermore, the use of yogic practice to treat mental health problems is common. While many are advised to pursue instruction in yoga by a physician or therapist there is little formal training about yoga or meditation for mental health professionals. In order to better understand the...