This paper reports the results of two independent studies dealing with saliency effects within the domain of folkbiological knowledge. In Study 1 we present data from a free listing task that explored tree name generation among Tzotzil Maya of Zinacantán (Chiapas). Study 2 compares Menominee Native Americans with Majority Culture (nonprofessional) fish experts in central Wisconsin. Both studies...

Big data bioinformatics aims at drawing biological conclusions from huge and complex biological datasets. Added value from the analysis of big data, however, is only possible if the data is accompanied by accurate metadata annotation. Particularly in high-throughput experiments intelligent approaches are needed to keep track of the experimental design, including the conditions that are studied ...

A fundamental question within the field of program evaluation is “Do social programs work?” Although experiments allow us to answer this question with certainty, they have some limitations. Experiments generate mean program impacts and even mean impacts by subgroup, but they often leave unexplored the impacts on subgroups determined by treatment use. This work proposes a methodology for analyzi...

1 German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany [email protected] 2 Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering Fraunhofer-Platz 1, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany [email protected] 3 National College of Ireland, Mayor Street, Dublin 1, Ireland [email protected] 4 Open University of the Neth...

ingle-case research designs are a diverse and powerful set of procedures useful for demonstrating causal relations among clinical phenomena. Although such designs are flexible, efficient, and have been used to make key advances since the earliest days of psychological science, they are currently extremely underused by psychological scientists and clinicians. We review the historical and theoret...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) recognized reverse engineering as an essential competence and thus has been active in the field since 1996, which is right from its beginning. The role of reverse engineering, however, within the institute changed over time. Since Fraunhofer IESE is an applied research institute its competencies are tailored to the market to ...

Though hundreds of journal pages have been packed with studies describing, analyzing, and synthesizing the benefits of Problem-based Learning (PBL) over conventional curricula, we still don't really know why. Currently it is impossible to say which of the various elements contributes to any incremental student learning. We need to apply the scientific method to studies of curriculum delivery. A...

Within-participant research designs are frequently used within the field of behavior analysis to document changes in behavior before, during, and after treatment. The purpose of the present article is to show the utility of within-participant research designs when working with older adults with neurocognitive disorders. The reason for advocating for these types of experimental designs is that t...