Selective attention to a spatial location has shown enhanced perception and facilitate behavior for events at attended locations. However, selection relies not only on where but also when an event occurs. Recently, interest has turned to how intrinsic neural oscillations in the brain entrain to rhythms in our environment, and, stimuli appearing in or out of sync with a rhythm have shown to modu...

The detection of community structure is a widely accepted means of investigating the principles governing biological systems. Recent efforts are exploring ways in which multiple data sources can be integrated to generate a more comprehensive model of cellular interactions, leading to the detection of more biologically relevant communities. In this work, we propose a mathematical programming mod...

Simon Hay and colleagues discuss the potential and challenges of producing continually updated infectious disease risk maps using diverse and large volume data sources such as social media.

In recent years, in many parts of England and France a mismatch between housing supply and demand has resulted in an increasing number of neighbourhoods experiencing problems of empty properties, depressed house-prices and high stock turnover. This paper looks at the response of policy makers and social housing landlords in the two countries to this phenomenon, which in England has been referre...

BACKGROUND Twenty-five cross-sector, multidisciplinary community partnerships received funding through the Active Living by Design (ALbD) national program to design, plan, and implement innovative initiatives to support active living. PURPOSE This paper examines implementation patterns across ALbD community partnerships related to community characteristics; preparation efforts; and policy, en...

This paper analyses polytechnic graduate placement in Finnish manufacturing. The paper uses a register-based data source covering white-collar manufacturing workers over the period 1995–2004. Taken together, the results show that wages and job classification are higher for polytechnic graduates, once other covariates are controlled for. Despite this, almost 20% of graduates from polytechnics ha...

Perhaps the most important goal of any engineering program that seeks to gather employer and alumni feedback is to get a clear picture of the work performance strengths and weaknesses of an institution's graduates. A basic problem in such assessment concerns the variety of data sources and types of feedback used. Different data sources have different bias characteristics, so that depending on o...

A fairly clear distinction can be drawn between mining goals that fall under the ‘search’ category, and those that fall under ‘discover.’ Search can be described as a goal-oriented approach: you have an idea of what you are looking for -perhaps all genes related to a particular function – and wish to mine the available data sources for relevant information (the actual methods of mining will be ...

Approximately 50% of rare diseases are evident in children. Fatal disease prognosis and lack of treatments causes 30% of affected children to not live past their fifth birthday. This clear sense of urgency demands innovation and acceleration in drug development. A case study is discussed highlighting the need for data-rich phase I study design, extensive use of modeling and simulation, use of d...

BACKGROUND Clinical judgment encompasses how nurses use their knowledge of the patient to generate, assess, and prioritize patient care alternatives. Previous research has identified debriefing as critical to developing clinical judgment. Best practice for debriefing has yet to be identified. The purpose of this research was to investigate whether a standard debriefing script, based on Tanner's...