Judgements and decisions in many political, economic or medical contexts are often made while sleep deprived. Furthermore, in such contexts individuals are required to integrate information provided by - more or less qualified - advisors. We asked if sleep deprivation affects advice taking. We conducted a 2 (sleep deprivation: yes vs. no) ×2 (competency of advisor: medium vs. high) experimental...

We identified graduates’ views on their thesis supervision process as led by advisors. A qualitative study of graduates the School Dentistry Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru) included semi-structured interviews. The categories were planning activities with advisor, advisor’s decisions, and general advisor. Of 20 interviewees, 12 (60%) women. Planning was insufficiently discu...

Abstract Background New tools capable of dynamic assessment the varying burden Clostridioides difficile infections are required to mitigate increased patient morbidity, mortality, and health costs. Wastewater (WW)-based epidemiology (WBE) is an emerging science, enabling comprehensive, inclusive, unbiased populations, spatially temporally. We sought detect, quantify track C. across a range scal...

Potential conflicts of interest: Dr Tu: Advisor and speaker: Allergan, Astellas, Pfizer, Medtronic, Coloplast, Researcher: Astellas, Pfizer, Allergan, Coloplast, Gynecare, Cook Myosite, Mednotric; Dr Carlson: Advisor and speaker: Allergan, AMS, Astellas, Pfizer, Researcher: Astellas, Cook Myosite, Pfizer; Dr Gajewski: Medtronic, Pfizer, Lilly, Astellas, Watson, Allergan; Dr Jolivet: Advisor and...

We present the concept of an efficiency and coordination advisor for autonomic computing approaches for dynamic optimization problems. The problem scenarios targeted contain recurring tasks that our advisor identifies over several runs of the autonomous system thus giving it some limited way to “look into the future”. If the solutions created by the autonomous agents are much worse than the opt...

The Photolithography Advisor is a program for the diagnosis and correction of negative resist photolithography defects occurring during integrated circuit fabrication. Given a set of observed symptoms on a wafer, the Advisor diagnoses defects due to these symptoms and recommends corrective action for each. An early prototype of the program was tested in a research lab, where experimental ICs we...