While traditional research has focused on the computer as a tool, more recent research has begun to explore the myriad of social responses that people make toward computing technology. This paper describes an ongoing research project that focuses on social attributions toward computing technology. Marakas, Johnson, & Palmer (2000) have suggested that individual psychological responses play an i...

This paper proposes a clinical method for general practice which is patient-centred and which ensures that the doctor's agenda is supported to secure 'best practice'. It encompasses self-learning for GPs which is patient-focused and describes the encouragement and support of patient self-care. The method attempts to be pragmatic and usable within GPs' available time. The method, however, is not...

Recurrent connectivity, balanced between excitation and inhibition, is a general principle of cortical connectivity. We propose that balanced recurrence can be achieved by tuning networks near their critical branching (CB) points when spike propagation is formalized as a branching process. We consider critical branching networks as foundations for artificial general intelligence when they are a...

In this paper, we apply morphogenetic processes, namely selfassembly processes, to compute automatically various abstract spaces that can be used to represent and analyze several wellknown musical objects (sequence of chords, interval series, etc.). These constructions have been implemented in MGS, an unconventional programming language belonging to the family of spatial computing languages.

This essay provides an analytic synthesis of the contribution by economists to the study of crime and the criminal justice system. We begin by summarizing the distinctive features of the economic approach, namely a focus on rational self-seeking behavior and analysis of the consequences of interactions among groups of actors that create equilibria in a system. We then use a taxonomy suggested b...

Aim: Programmatic assessment for learning (PAL) is becoming more and more popular as a concept but its implementation is not without problems. In this paper we describe the design principles behind a PAL program in a general practice training context. Design principles: The PAL program was designed to optimise the meaningfulness of assessment information for the registrar and to make him/her us...

INTRODUCTION Many people who die by suicide have been in contact with health services prior to their death. This study examined service contacts in people in urban and rural areas of the Scottish Highlands. METHODS Highland residents dying by suicide or undetermined intent in 2001-2004 were identified using routine death records. Health service databases were searched to identify general hosp...

3. A 23 year old soldier attends your surgery with a colleague. That morning he had been watching television when he had suffered an episode of collapse with loss of consciousness and he is unable to recall anything else until he remembers coming around lying on the floor. His colleague, who witnessed the episode, describes what sounds like a generalised tonic-clonic convulsion. There was no pr...