If current trends continue, an excess of weight will surpass smoking as the primary cause of preventable deaths in the U.S. Health experts, however, often overlook the best near-term strategy for stopping the obesity epidemic: behavior modification methods that have been shown to change people's eating and exercise habits. Illustration by Bryan Christie. Although science has revealed a lot abou...

1 Remote Sensing Division, Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20375, USA 2 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA; E-Mail: [email protected] 3 College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, 104 CEOAS Admin. Bldg., Corvallis, OR 97331, USA; E-Mails: [email protected] (C.O.D.); n...

There are many choices to make when evaluating the performance of a complex system. In the context of parallel job scheduling, one must decide what workload to use and what measurements to take. These decisions sometimes have subtle implications that are easy to overlook. In this paper we document numerous pitfalls one may fall into, with the hope of providing at least some help in avoiding the...

This chapter presents methodologies and techniques for performing accessibility evaluations on web applications. These methodologies are discussed in the context of performing them within a web engineering process, be it a traditional, unified or agile process. In this chapter the case is made that website commissioners and web engineers cannot afford to overlook accessible practices as they ri...

Modestly laboring behind the scenes, ligaments are often overlooked or disdained while attention focuses on muscles, vessels, and nerves, the dynamic actors on center stage. Yet this attitude held by surgeons and anatomists alike is both naive and wrong. Ligaments are often more important than muscles, and in some places where muscles are given the credit, unassuming ligaments carry the entire ...

Research shows that many organizations overlook needs and opportunities to strengthen ethics. Barriers can make it hard to see the need for stronger ethics and even harder to take effective action. These barriers include the organization's misleading use of language, misuse of an ethics code, culture of silence, strategies of justification, institutional betrayal, and ethical fallacies. Ethics ...

1The school of ITEF, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia 2Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Via G. Caruso 16, 56122 Pisa, Italy 3 School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia 4Radar Modelling & Analysis Group, Electronic Warfare & Radar Division, Defence Science & Technology Organisation...

Rett syndrome is an X-linked neurodevelopmental disorder resulting in profound psychomotor retardation. It is usually diagnosed by a pediatrician or pediatric neurologist. Adult neurologists may, therefore, overlook the possibility of Rett syndrome in women with psychomotor retardation of unknown etiology. We report the case of a woman diagnosed with Rett syndrome at age 49 years. This report e...

The Musical Instrument Digital Interface protocol can provide Music IR researchers with a stable, robust and widely available standard that will allow the creation of testbeds appropriate for precision and recall evaluation in relevance based MIR experiments. MIDI presents many inherent advantages to researchers that our community must not overlook. In addition it presents an opportunity to sol...

Agent-based modeling is showing great promise in the social sciences. However, two misconceptions about the relation between social macroproperties and microproperties afflict agent-based models. These lead current models to systematically ignore factors relevant to the properties they intend to model, and to overlook a wide range of model designs. Correcting for these brings painful trade-offs...