If robots are people, can they be made for profit? Commercial implications of robot personhood

How Can People Be so Good at Intercepting Accelerating Objects if They Are so Poor at Visually Judging Acceleration?

People are known to be very poor at visually judging acceleration. Yet, they are extremely proficient at intercepting balls that fall under gravitational acceleration. How is this possible? We previously found that people make systematic errors when trying to tap on targets that move with different constant accelerations or decelerations on interleaved trials. Here, we show that providing conte...

Cardiac report cards: how can they be made better?

When hospitaland surgeon-specific coronary artery bypass graft surgery death rates were first publicly released in 1991 in New York State, many clinicians reacted with anger and outright hostility.1 Over time, as more jurisdictions adopted the concept of public reporting of outcomes in the form of report cards, the view has shifted to gradual recognition and acceptance that cardiac report cards...

Introduction: What Are Early Successional Habitats, Why Are They Important, and How Can They Be Sustained?

C.H. Greenberg et al. (eds.), Sustaining Young Forest Communities, Managing Forest Ecosystems 21, DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1620-9_1, © US Government 2011 Abstract There is a rising concern among natural resource scientists and managers about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early successional habitats. There is no concise definition of early successional habitats. Howe...

Lungs of the first amniotes: why simple if they can be complex?

We show-in contrast to the traditional textbook contention-that the first amniote lungs were complex, multichambered organs and that the single-chambered lungs of lizards and snakes represent a secondarily simplified rather than the plesiomorphic condition. We combine comparative anatomical and embryological data and show that shared structural principles of multichamberedness are recognizable ...

Federal Sentencing Can Be Made More Just, If the Sentencing Commission Wants to Make It So