Microarray foray

Private telehealth foray into public system.

The launch of an app offering Ontario patients access to family doctors via telephone, text messaging and videolink for $10 a month is fuelling debate over the place of privately delivered virtual health care. The Akira app allows Ontario patients to consult with physicians and grant permission to access app-generated health records, including clinical notes, prescriptions and test results, sai...

Encouraging Behavior: A Foray into Persuasive Computing

Whereas longer queries have been shown to produce better results for information seeking tasks, people tend to type short queries. We created an interface designed to encourage people to construct longer queries, and evaluated it via an exploratory Mechanical Turk experiment. Results suggest that our interface manipulation may be effective for eliciting longer queries, but the effect is comprom...

cDNA Microarray Data Normalization

A Machine Learning Researcher's Foray into Recidivism Prediction

We discuss an application of machine learning to recidivism prediction. Our initial results motivate the need for a methodology for technique selection for applications that involve unequal but unknown error costs, a skewed data set, or both. Evaluation methodologies traditionally used in machine learning are inadequate for analyzing performance in these situations, although they arise frequent...

Foray search: an effective systematic dispersal strategy in fragmented landscapes.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, population models generally assume that the dispersal trajectories of animals are random, but systematic dispersal could be more efficient at detecting new habitat and may therefore constitute a more realistic assumption. Here, we investigate, by means of simulations, the properties of a potentially widespread systematic dispersal strategy termed "for...