Huckleberry Finn’s Conscience: Reckoning with the Evasion

Huckleberry Campground Visitor Survey

In order for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and better meet the needs of the public; a visitor satisfaction survey was conducted at 24 BLM recreation sites in 13 states during fiscal year 2012 (FY12). The survey was developed to measure each site's performance related to BLM GPRA Goal 3.1 Provide for a quality recreation exp...

Reckoning the moment of reckoning in spontaneous voluntary movement.

In everyday life, movements are sometimes triggered by external sensory stimuli, like when the traffic light ahead turns from green to red and you move your foot from the gas pedal to the brake pedal in response. But many of our voluntary movements are spontaneous, meaning that they are not tied to any recent stimulus in the current sensory environment. This capacity affords us what Gold and Sh...

The Guilty Conscience

Dead Reckoning from the Pocket

We present a novel approach to enable dead reckoning in a scenario with unconstrained placement of a device in the user’s trouser pockets. Utilizing the rotation of the device due to body motion, we estimate the user’s walking direction robustly to different placements in the pocket and without additional body-worn sensors.

Rationing conscience

Decisions about allocation of limited healthcare resources are frequently controversial. These decisions are usually based on careful analysis of medical, scientific and health economic evidence. Yet, decisions are also necessarily based on value judgements. There may be differing views among health professionals about how to allocate resources or how to evaluate existing evidence. In specific ...