Validity in work-based assessment: expanding our horizons

Preface: Expanding Our Mental Horizons

Cognitive science aims to understand the nature of the mind. Yet the mind has many facets, and this fact has led to the evolution of different disciplines that study if from distinct perspectives. The challenge of cognitive science is to bring together the theories, phenomena, and techniques of its component areas, including artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, education, linguistics,...

Expanding horizons

Colchicine--expanding horizons.

To say that the once very limited indications for colchicine have undergone a subtle but definite and dramatic change in recent years would not be an overstatement. This old drug, which has been known for centuries, was used for relieving and preventing acute attacks of gouty arthritis for over 200 years, but until recently, no other clinical uses had been established. The 1985 edition of Good-...

Expanding Horizons in Cancer Imaging

I would first like to take this opportunity to thank Editors Yeon Hyeon Choe, MD, PhD and Seong Ho Park, MD, PhD for taking me on as guest editor for this special cancer imaging issue. Although it would be nearly impossible to cover the entire spectrum of cancer imaging in just one issue, it is a credit to the KJR that they recognize the growing need to highlight the changes in such a rapidly e...

Expanding horizons in ergonomics research

Ergonomics, the use of scientific thinking in the design of products and of working environments, has undergone three major waves of research innovations and applications. The first owed a great deal to Paul Fitts, who was a member of the generation of scientists coming to maturity during World War II. Below I have labeled it with the name Human Performance, which he gave to the basic science t...