Political scientists have access to a number of competing methodologies that marshal different forms of evidence for their arguments about political phenomena. Recently a new form of evidence has appeared in political science research and, more frequently, economics: spatially explicit and time-varying neurological activity of human subjects engaged in political or economic decision-making. As ...

GeoWorlds (http://www.isi.edu/geoworlds ) is a component-based information management system aimed at helping organizations to marshal, analyze, discuss, and act on all of the available information about a situation playing out over space and time. The system integrates digital library, geographic information systems (GIS), and remote sensor data management technologies, together with other inf...

The aim of this paper is the derivation of the maximum likelihood estimators of the Marshal-Olkin copula. This copula comes from the Marshall-Olkin Bivariate Exponential (MOBE) distribution, that has been proposed in reliability analysis to study complex systems in which the components are not independent and it is also used in the extreme value theory. We find the likelihood estimators conside...

Building on a detailed study of the Woburn, Massachusetts, childhood leukemia cluster, this paper examines lay and professional ways of knowing about environmental health risks. Of particular interest are differences between lay and professional groups' definitions of data quality, methods of analysis, traditionally accepted levels of measurement and statistical significance, and relations betw...

Advances in cellular and molecular immunology have provided enormous insights into the nature and consequences of interactions between tumors and immune cells. This knowledge continues to lead to strategies that marshal the immune system to treat established malignancies. The most heralded class of immunooncology drugs are the immune checkpoint inhibitors, which work by blocking the molecules t...

As the Soviet Union was collapsing, an American research team visited Moscow to interview military leaders as part of a study for the U.S. Department of Defense Office of Net Assessment. One of the interview subjects was Marshal Sergei Akhromeev, Chief of the General Staff and Personal Advisor to Gorbachev, who provided insights into Soviet nuclear planningthis included clarification on issues ...

In a ubiquitous computing environment augmented reality would be an ideal choice for a display for the user. An augmented reality display assists users by adding computer generated information to their perception of reality, thus making it ideal for ubiquitous computing. Unfortunately augmented reality is technically difficult and costly to implement even when the application is designed for it...

Processing high-density clinical signal data (data from biomedical sensors deployed in the clinical environment) is resource intensive and time consuming. We propose a novel approach to storing and processing clinical signal data based on the Apache HBase distributed column-store and the MapReduce programming paradigm with an integrated webbased data visualization layer. An integrated solution ...

Uncertainty in regression can be efficiently and effectively communicated using the visual properties of statistical objects in a regression display. Altering the “visual weight” of lines and shapes to depict the quality of information represented clearly communicates statistical confidence even when readers are unfamiliar with the formal and abstract definitions of statistical uncertainty. Her...

Abstract How do individuals guide their activities towards some goal? Harry Frankfurt once identified the task of explaining guidance as central problem in action theory. An explanation has proved to be elusive, however. In this paper, I show how we can marshal empirical research make explanatory progress. contend that human agents have a primitive capacity visual attention, and is actually con...