Article history: Received 5 May 2014 This study examines the motives mentors have for providing developmental support to their protégés. Based on qualitative interviewswith 20 informalmentors, we show five broad categories of mentor motives: self-focused motives (based on individual reasons), protégé-focused motives (directed at the protégé), relationship-focused motives (directed at the relati...

With practice, humans tend to improve their performance on most tasks. But do such improvements then generalize to new tasks? Although early work documented primarily task-specific learning outcomes in the domain of perceptual learning [1-3], an emerging body of research has shown that significant learning generalization is possible under some training conditions [4-9]. Interestingly, however, ...

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A novel class of HIFU and redox dual responsive polymer with a disulfide bond weak linkage is developed. The novel modality of HIFU and redox triggered release allows for the fine-tuning of the release kinetics of the encapsulants from the micelles in a remote and controlled way.

Magnetic resonance image-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) is an innovative technology in the new panorama of treatment using ultrasound. It combines two well-known and distinct methodologies: high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and a magnetic resonance imaging system (MRI). This review on MRgFUS is focused on the technical aspects and the current clinical applications in oncology...

Based on the focused microwave radiometry imaging method, a novel microwave radiometry imaging system (MiRaIS) has been developed in order to explore the possibility of non-invasively measuring variations of brain activation associated with specific psychophysiological tasks. The radiometric output voltage fluctuations could be attributed to electrical conductivity variations of excitable cell ...

A review of 4 x 4-matrix notation and of tensor formalism focused on crystallographic applications is presented. A discussion of examples shows how this notation simplifies tasks encountered in crystallographic computing.

This paper presents the DUTIR submission to TREC 2009 Chemical IR Track. This track included two tasks: Prior Art (PA) and Technical Survey (TS) tasks. We present a series of experiments on two text retrieval models, BM25 and Language Model for IR (LMIR). For Prior Art task, we focused on formulating the queries from the query patents and date filtering. Moreover, some traditional search techni...

Introduction During the past two decades, information visualization (InfoVis) research has created new techniques and methods to support data-intensive analyses in science, industry and government. These have enabled a wide range of analysis tasks to be executed, which vary in terms of the type, and volume of data involved. However, the majority of this research has focused on static datasets, ...