High immunization coverage rates are desirable in order to reduce total morbidity and mortality rates, but it may also provide an incentive for herd immunity free riding strategies. The aim of this paper was to investigate the link between cognitive ability and vaccination intention in a hypothetical scenario experiment about Avian Flu immunization. A between-subject scenario experiment was uti...

Epitope Binning # 6.140522 An important step in the engineering of biotherapeutics is to characterize and group a library of monoclonal antibod-ies by the epitope binding regions generated against a specific antigen. This “epitope binning” enables the maintenance of epitope diversity and provides important information to broaden intellectual property protection. IBIS Technologies and Wasatch Mi...

This paper describes a project with the long term goal of automated performance marionettes, accomplished by capturing human motion and automating the motion imitation synthesis for an experimental marionette system. The automation and performance goals required the development of hardware and software tools that enable motion imitation, leading to a series of results in numerical simulation, o...

Conventional computer systems implement a dichotomy of storage mechanisms: a file store which provides a durable repository allowing data to exist after the creating program has ceased execution (such data is termed long-term data), and virtual memory which provides a repository for data during program execution (such data is termed short-term data). In typical conventional systems it is the re...

Mate choice decisions are central in sexual selection theory aimed to understand how sexual traits evolve and their role in evolutionary diversification. We test the hypothesis that brain size and cognitive ability are important for accurate assessment of partner quality and that variation in brain size and cognitive ability underlies variation in mate choice. We compared sexual preference in g...