Daniel Kersten is professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota and a member of the graduate faculties in Neuroscience, and Computer Science and Engineering. He did his undergraduate training in mathematics at MIT, followed by an M.S. in mathematics at the University of Minnesota. In 1983 he completed a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Minnesota under Gordon Legge. After a post...

Endogenous pyrogen (EP) 1 was first described by Beeson (1) in saline extracts of rabbit peritoneal exudate cells. These cells were >95% neutrophils, and it was assumed that neutrophils were the source of the pyrogen (1). A series of studies over the last 30 yr has established that EP is the common mediator of almost all febrile states that are not attributable to disorders of the thermoregulat...

Purpose Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s work on modes of “thinking” provides a comprehensive text which is little explored in respect with people who have an intellectual or developmental disability. This paper aims to explore the potential this change staff development and practice. Design/methodology/approach Key themes from Thinking Fast, Slow (Kahneman, 2011) are described applied curr...

MOON. Y. Ishihara 1 , N. Namiki 2 , S. Sugita 3 , K. Matsumoto 1 , S. Goossens 1 , H. Araki 1 , H. Noda 1 , S. Sasaki 1 , T. Iwata 4 and H. Hanada 1 , 1 RISE Project Office, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (2-12 Hoshigaoka, Mizusawa-ku, Oshu, Iwate 023-0861, Japan; [email protected]), 2 Kyushu Univ. (6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan), 3 Univ. of Tokyo (5-1-5 ...

NEW GRAVITY FIELD MODEL OF SELENE (KAGUYA). N. Namiki, S. Sugita, K. Matsumoto, S. Goossens, Y. Ishihara, H. Noda, S. Sasaki, T. Iwata, H. Hanada, H. Araki, K. Kurosawa, M. Matsumura, M. Yokoyama, S. Kamata, N. Kubo, A. Mori, and M. Sato, Kyushu University (6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan; [email protected]), 2 The University of Tokyo (5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kasiwa, Chiba...

Hot toPICS In numbers, ISWC was a tremendous success. We received 101 submissions— the largest number in the last eight years—making for a selective 23 percent acceptance rate for oral presentations. Furthermore, ISWC was colocated with the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, which merged the UbiComp and Pervasive conferences. (See this issue’s Conferences ...

Successful performance of a cognitive task depends upon both the quality of the sensory information and the processing resources available to perform that task. Thus, task performance can either be data-limited or process-limited (D. A. Norman and D. G. Bobrow, 1975). Using fMRI, we show that these conceptual distinctions are neurally dissociable: A parieto-frontal network involved in conscious...