Successful Silences: A Practitioner’s Toolkit

Practitioners’ Toolkit for Agriculture Public Expenditure Analysis

The Evaluation of a Physiological Data Visualization Toolkit for UX Practitioners: Challenges and Opportunities

The objective of this paper is to outline the challenges we have encountered during the development and evaluation of our Physiological Data Visualization (UX Heatmap) toolkit and discuss the opportunities that emerged from our experience. The main goal of the Physiological Data Visualization toolkit is to allow simpler and richer interpretation of physiological signals for UI evaluation, in or...

Snail silences suppressor

2 JEM Vol. 206, No. 1, 2009 Learning to tolerate ourselves On age 139, Duty et al. find self-reactive B cells in healthy adults that might harm their own body if given the chance. Checkpoints during B cell development ensure that immune cells won’t confuse the self for an intruder. At birth, many B cells express self-reactive receptors. Most of the...

Experienced Practitioners’ Beliefs Utilized to Create a Successful Massage Therapist Conceptual Model: a Qualitative Investigation

BACKGROUND The massage therapy profession in the United States has grown exponentially, with 35% of the profession's practitioners in practice for three years or less. Investigating personal and social factors with regard to the massage therapy profession could help to identify constructs needed to be successful in the field. PURPOSE This data-gathering exercise explores massage therapists' p...

Motion Silences Awareness of Visual Change

Loud bangs, bright flashes, and intense shocks capture attention, but other changes--even those of similar magnitude--can go unnoticed. Demonstrations of change blindness have shown that observers fail to detect substantial alterations to a scene when distracted by an irrelevant flash, or when the alterations happen gradually [1-5]. Here, we show that objects changing in hue, luminance, size, o...