“Who Killed Happy Valley?”

Who killed lab rounds?

Who Killed the English National Health Service?

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. This article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

Who Killed My Parked Car?

We find that the conventional belief of vehicle cyber attacks and their defenses—attacks are feasible and thus defenses are required only when the vehicle’s ignition is turned on—does not hold. We verify this fact by discovering and applying two new practical and important attacks: battery-drain and Denial-of-Body-control (DoB). The former can drain the vehicle battery while the latter can prev...

Who killed the English National Health Service?

The death of the English National Health Service (NHS) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. This article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

Perceptual discrimination difficulty and familiarity in the Uncanny Valley: more like a “Happy Valley”

The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis (UVH) predicts that greater difficulty perceptually discriminating between categorically ambiguous human and humanlike characters (e.g., highly realistic robot) evokes negatively valenced (i.e., uncanny) affect. An ABX perceptual discrimination task and signal detection analysis was used to examine the profile of perceptual discrimination (PD) difficulty along the ...