Penn’s Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT) is the world’s first academic structure devoted to translational science. With programmatic, infrastructural, and educational components, it has more than 2,000 members drawn from all the schools of Penn, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the Wistar and Monell Institutes, and the University of the Sciences. The c...

The DARPA Autonomous Land Vehicle (ALV) was a 12-foot tall, eight-wheeled robot with multiple sensors, tasked to go from point A to point B without human intervention in the hills outside of Denver in about 1985. This was a large applied research effort that presented many opportunities for unusual experiences. In one such experience, I was called in, at the last minute, to help improve our ALV...

PURPOSE To verify the use of conjunctions in narratives, and to investigate the influence of stimuli's complexity over the type of conjunctions used by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and children with typical language development. METHODS Participants were 40 children (20 with typical language development and 20 with SLI) with ages between 7 and 10 years, paired by age range...

Whether non-human animals can have episodic memories remains the subject of extensive debate. A number of prominent memory researchers defend the view that animals do not have the same kind of episodic memory as humans do, whereas others argue that some animals have episodic-like memory—i.e., they can remember what, where and when an event happened. Defining what constitutes episodic memory has...

The data describing resolutions to telephone network local loop \troubles," from which we wish to learn rules for dispatching technicians , are notoriously unreliable. Anecdotes abound detailing reasons why a resolution entered by a technician would not be valid, ranging from sympathy to fear to ignorance to negligence to management pressure. In this paper, we describe four different approaches...

one of the special ways of god's cognition is intuition. in this article after offering the definition of this notion and explaining the difference between intuition and munificence, and also divine and devils intuition, we will imply the necessity of existence a criteria for truth and believe to these intuitions. theosophies maintain that these criteria are reason, scripture, i.e. quran, ...

intertextuality is one of the most important theories in comparative literature, because it deals with effectiveness of literature, just like comparative literature. the theorists believe that any text is the result of absorption and transformation of another text. the maqama technique has had a great impact on european literature in terms of fiction writing and has technically inspired picares...