Predicting human behavior: The next frontiers

The Next Frontiers

This issue of the IJTMB includes articles that represent the scope of therapeutic massage and bodywork (TMB) practice and education. The two research articles represent the testing of deductive hypotheses not commonly seen in the TMB literature: the change in tactile abnormalities of young children with autism using qigong massage, and changes in postural balance from massage to the muscles ass...

Current frontiers in reproducing human driver behavior

Most traffic simulation frameworks use sophisticated models to conceptualize human factors in traffic environments. In this work we want to find out in how far these approaches comply with models from human factor psychology—clearly the most advanced discipline, when it comes to the conceptualization of human behavior. Thus, we analyze common psychological models for human driver behavior and c...

Frontiers inEcology and the Environment Human behavior and sustainability

Predicting the Next Pitch

If a batter can correctly anticipate the next pitch type, he is in a better position to attack it. That is why batteries worry about having signs stolen or becoming too predictable in their pitch selection. In this paper, we present a machine-learning based predictor of the next pitch type. This predictor incorporates information that is available to a batter such as the count, the current game...

Next frontiers in CAR T-cell therapy

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is entering a new era, transitioning from an experimental approach being tested in a handful of centers to a more mainstream and broadly investigated therapeutic platform with significant efforts directed towards commercial translation. CARs are synthetic receptors engineered and transduced into T cells to redirect T-cell cytotoxicity by recognitio...