Making sense of the mind is the human odys sey. Today, the cog ni tive sci ences pro vide the vehi cles and équipage. As do all cul tur ally shaped activ i ties, they man i fest crys tal lized gen er al iza tions and ideo log i cal leg a cies, many of which go unques tioned for cen tu ries. From time to time, these ide ol o gies are suc cess fully chal lenged, gen er at ing revi sions and new f...

I n 1994, 38% of hospi ta l s su rveyed ind ica t ed plans for future workforce cuts. Twenty-seven percen t of these hospi ta l s i nd ica t ed they are t a rge t ing nurses, compared wi th only 19% in 1993.1 Professional nurs ing staff cuts are not just a resul t of dec reased need or inc reased efficiency: 50% of the nurses whose jobs are e l imina ted are be ing rep laced wi th un l i censed...

Understanding and measuring end to end service performance perceived by the clients is a chal lenging task Client perceived web site responses are downloaded web pages Typically a web page is composed from multiple objects a main HTML le and several embedded objects such as images However HTTP does not provide any means to delimit the beginning or the end of a web page to e ectively measure the...

Date of publication: 8 October 2012 The Fastest Mobile Microrobots in the World R ecent advances in micro/nanotechnologies and microelectromechanical systems have enabled micromachined mobile agents. Highly dynamic mobile microrobots are believed to open the gate for various future applications. However, at the submillimeter scale, the adhesion effects dominate physics, especially in the air en...

This empirical study examines ChatGPT as an educational and learning tool. It investigates the opportunities chal-lenges that provides to students instruc-tors of communication, business writing, composition courses. also strives provide recommendations. After conducting 30 theory-based application-based tests, it is found has potential replacing search engines accurate relia-ble input students...

Development of an accurate forecasting model for effective prediction Quality Service (QoS) parameters inter-net things (IoT) based web services is highly desired, such that it improves service management and user experience. Mostly, QoS are volatile in nature which make the IoT recommendation process chal-lenging. Artificial neural network (ANN) models found to be worthy modeling nonlinear par...

We introduce honey encryption (HE), a simple, general approach to encrypting messages using low min-entropykeys such as passwords. HE is designed to produce a ciphertext which, when decrypted with any of a number ofincorrect keys, yields plausible-looking but bogus plaintexts called honey messages. A key benefit of HE is that itprovides security in cases where too little entropy...

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF) kills some types of tumor cells in vitro and participates in tumor elimination in vivo. TNF has been shown to kill cells by altering their mitochondria structurally and functionally. The oncogene l<( I -2 codes for a protein located in the inner membrane of mitochondria which is able to inhibit the commitment to cell death in various cell types. We have therefore inv...

The notion that dreaming is isolated from sensory activity is chal/~ng~d by demonstrations that somatosensory stimuli are frequently incorporated illlo dreiUlI colllent. To further study such effects, four volunteers were administered pressure stimulation to either the left or the right leg during REM sleep and awakened to report tlu:ir dreams. These dreams were rated and compared to non-stimul...