In three experiments, we examined the meremeasurement effect, wherein simply asking people about their intent to engage in a certain behavior increases the probability of their subsequently engaging in that behavior. The experiments demonstrate that manipulations that should affect the ease of mentally representing or simulating the behavior in question influence the extent of the mere-measurem...

The ability to detect biomarkers with ultrahigh sensitivity radically transformed biology and disease diagnosis. However, owing to incompatibilities with infrastructure in current biological and medical laboratories, recent innovations in analytical technology have not received broad adoption. Here, we report a simple, universal 'add-on' technology (dubbed EASE) that can be directly plugged int...

For the PAT application of microbial monitoring instruments in pharmaceutical field, certain performance features of a detector technology are highly desirable, among them are: (1) real time microbial detection; (2) capability of continuous monitoring of microbial level in the environment; (3) broad detection range of microbes; (4) freedom from sample preparation and (5) ease of operation. To p...

AT THE END OF EVERY semester, student grades are due 72 hours after the final exam. When grading is done, teaching assistants put together the final spreadsheet with cumulative scores, computed as weighted averages of scores for homework, course projects, and exams. My task is to assign letter grades to individual students an attempt at fairness while keeping the course attractive to future gen...

This paper describes our experience in using Aspect Oriented Programming to greatly ease maintenance and evolution tasks in industrial software evolution. We have discovered that AOP can be effectively used to add unpluggable features to an existing code base. AOP has allowed us to place code related to certain features into separate modules, which eases evolution when requirements change. Furt...

HYPOTHESIS In this study, we aimed to investigate whether the use of a sodium hyaluronate and carboxy-methylcellulose-based antiadhesive membrane (Seprafilm, Adhesion Barrier; Genzyme Corp, Cambridge, Mass) is associated with fewer adhesions around the pelvis and rectal pouch. DESIGN, INTERVENTIONS, AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Forty Wistar albino female rats were divided into 4 equal groups. Ea...

In response to the need of a rights expression language (REL), we have proposed LicenseScript, an REL based on multiset rewriting and Prolog. LicenseScript has advantage over existing RELs, in the sense that it has a well-defined semantics. In fact besides semantics, LicenseScript has a lot of other advantages over other RELs. The mission of this paper is twofold: (1) to put a spotlight on thes...