UK research: Call for more open councils

Call for more rigorous research on savant syndrome

Research on savant syndrome is fascinating. Some otherwise retarded individuals, often autistic people, show extraordinary feats; e.g., music, calculation, and drawing. Unfortunately, many reports on savant syndrome lack rigor, and some were even questioned about their credibility. I have pointed out such flaws before [1-3], thus there is no need to repeat them here. Pointing out flaws in other...

Physicians, CIHR call for more H1N1 research funds.

CALL for Open Experiments

In this paper, we briefly describe the limitations of present CALL systems, caused both by technological factors and by the limited agenda of CALL developers, whose design goals tend not to result in software tools for practical everyday language learning activities. We also note the lack of creative new ways of using computers in language education and a gradual shift towards traditional teach...

The No-Destination Ship of Priority-Setting in Healthcare: A Call for More Democracy

In dealing with scarcity of resources within healthcare systems, decision-makers inevitably have to make choices about which services to fund. Setting priorities represents a challenging task that requires systematic, explicit and transparent methodologies with focus on economic efficiency. In addition, the engagement of the general public in the process of decision-making has been regarded as ...

Making GIScience research more open access

This special issue is special not just because of the emerging theme of data-intensive geospatial computing, and but also in the sense that all the data and source codes used in the papers are made freely available. In the initial call for papers (http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/ijgis/), authors were encouraged to consider the option of support materials for archiving data and video clips. With the e...