If You Were Wondering

Mining Social Deliberation in Online Communication - If You Were Me and I Were You

Social deliberative skills are collaborative life-skills. These skills are crucial for communicating in any collaborative processes where participants have heterogeneous opinions and perspectives driven by different assumptions, beliefs, and goals. In this paper, we describe models using lexical, discourse, and gender demographic features to identify whether or not participants demonstrate soci...

If DSME Were a Pill, Would You Prescribe It?

EDITOR'S NOTE: This address was delivered by Margaret A. Powers, PhD, RD, CDE, President, Health Care & Education, of the American Diabetes Association (ADA), at the ADA's 76th Scientific Sessions in New Orleans, La., on 11 June 2016. Dr. Powers conducts research and has a clinical practice as a registered dietitian and diabetes educator at the International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet in ...

To an intern: what if you were the patient?

Congratulations, student doctor. You studied hard and scored well on your examinations—not only on your Medical College Admissions Test but in your organic chemistry tests as well. You mastered anatomy as well as pharmacology, neurology, and more “-ologies” than you care to remember. Now it is time to get hands-on learning experience, without being able to hide in the library, while preparing f...

What would you do if it were your kid?

If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping

The concept of an individual swapping his or her body with that of another person has captured the imagination of writers and artists for decades. Although this topic has not been the subject of investigation in science, it exemplifies the fundamental question of why we have an ongoing experience of being located inside our bodies. Here we report a perceptual illusion of body-swapping that addr...