OBJECTIVE Sophisticated signal processing has opened the doors to more research with human subjects than ever before. The increase in the use of human subjects in research comes with a need for increased human subjects protections. APPROACH We quantified the presence or absence of ethics language in published reports of brain-computer interface (BCI) studies that involved human subjects and q...

We report an experiment in which a change in the context of a stock-flow reasoning problem leads to a 44% reduction in the use of an erroneous ‘correlation heuristic’ response. In its original context – a global warming scenario – the majority of participants pattern-match the output of a system to its inputs (i.e., use a correlation heuristic). In the changed context – financial debt managemen...

The gap between the world's rich and poor countries largely comes down to the financial and physical assets that create wealth. Developed economies possess more of this capital than developing ones, and what they have usually incorporates more advanced technologies. The implication is clear: A key aspect of economic advancement lies in poorer nations' capacity to acquire more capital and scale ...

with regard to the importance of technological developments, senior enterprise managers should be aware of their organization's technological capabilities, changes and developments in the world, and also have information from their rivals' efforts in achieving new technologies, to be in line of their organization's technology developments. therefore a technological needs assessment model, is de...