“It felt better to stay quiet”

Is it better to combine predictions?

We have compared the accuracy of the individual protein secondary structure prediction methods: PHD, DSC, NNSSP and Predator against the accuracy obtained by combing the predictions of the methods. A range of ways of combing predictions were tested: voting, biased voting, linear discrimination, neural networks and decision trees. The combined methods that involve 'learning' (the non-voting meth...

Near patient testing: is it here to stay?

Electronic Music Is Here to Stay – or Is It ?

Musical composers frequently make use of new technologies in instrumentation. Whilst orchestral traditions remain strong and the instruments viable, what of the works of composers of electronic music where the sound sources have fallen into disrepair, obsolescence, or modern technology has changed the sound so that it bears no relation to the original? Beyond collections of manuscripts and reco...

I felt like it happened to me: Television audience perceptions of televised conflict

An increasing number of studies have linked presence to other media effects, typically as a mediating variable. Scholars have also examined individual differences in the experience of presence. For this study, the authors tested whether real world experiences would impact presence sensations when similar scenarios were acted on in television programming. A random sample telephone survey was uti...

Felt Emotions

What does it mean “feeling” something? How body activation and its perception is crucial in emotional experience? How it impact on the cognitive components of human emotions and their “appraisal” function, or is affected by them? Which are the different mental paths of emotional experiences?