The ICCA Must Live!

Icca 2014

In many emerging applications, the data to be monitored is of very high volume, dynamic, and distributed, making it infeasible to collect the distinct data streams to a central node and process them there. Often, the monitoring problem consists of determining whether the value of a global function, which depends on the union of all streams, crossed a certain threshold. A great deal of effort is...

Dismantling Face Validity - Why the Concept Must Live On, But the Term Must Finally Die

Playing God: Mary must die so Jodie may live longer.

In 2000, conjoined twins were born in England. What made this case unique was the fact that if the twins remained unseparated, medical opinion held they would die; if they were separated one twin would live, and one twin would die; the parents refused to consent to separation; and the hospital charged with their care brought the matter to court. The trial court and court of appeal approved of t...

Genetics of infantile seizures with paroxysmal dyskinesia: the infantile convulsions and choreoathetosis (ICCA) and ICCA-related syndromes.

The relationship between paroxysmal movement disorders (PD: paroxysmal dyskinesia) and epilepsy continues to present a challenging problem. Attacks of PD and epileptic seizures have several characteristics in common: both are paroxysmal in nature with a tendency to spontaneous remission, and a subset of PD responds well to anticonvulsants. In 1997, description of the ICCA (infantile convulsions...

Coming to Like Obnoxious People When We Must Live with Them

The pattern of individual affective accommodation to no-choice relationships with others was examined in two experimental studies on the effects of anticipated interaction. From Heider's concept of unit-sentiment balance it was predicted that the anticipation of no-choice interaction with other individuals would lead to increased liking for individuals who initially had ambiguous or dislikable ...