We All Own This!

We are all in this together.

Many of us are feeling isolated as travel and education budgets are restricted while patient flow demands, H1N1 and the pressures of work increase. This is a time for us, the chief executive nurses, to take a leadership position in our organizations. Two years ago we reviewed the strategic plan of the Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses (ACEN). The primary foci for ACEN are to network and set ...

Do we own our bodies?

Is this all?

We all attend professional meetings, conferences, assemblies, conference, and/or congresses, and pay money and often travel long distances to do so. We are not forced to go; we willingly attend. We find the necessary resources and leave our jobs to attend these gatherings of our peers and super-peers. We travel, register, attend some of the sessions (we can't get to all of them), possibly prese...

Are We All Disfluent in Our Own Special Way and Should Dialogue Systems Also Be?

This study explores interand intra-speaker variation in use of timemanagement strategies. How do speakers differ in their use of pauses, fillers and other resources aimed at managing time while they plan their next contribution? Taking a rather qualitative approach, we describe individual speakers’ production, using a small limited-domain corpus of task-oriented German speech. It is assumed tha...

How we perceive our own retina

Ever since the days of René Descartes, in the seventeenth century, the search for the relationship between subjective perception and neural activity has been an ongoing challenge. In neuroscience, an approach to the problem via the visual system has produced a paradigm using perceptual suppression, changing with time. Cortical areas in which the neural activity was modulated in temporal correla...