As school food services outsource more and more of their food preparation, the processed products they offer to school children are increasingly branded. There is a legitimate concern that branding will make the more indulgent foods even more attractive. Conversely, a promising question is: could branding more dramatically improve the attractiveness of healthier foods? Brands, characters, and i...

Syllabification is sometimes influenced by morphological boundaries. We show that incorporating morphological information can improve the accuracy of orthographic syllabification in English and German. Surprisingly, unsupervised segmenters, such as Morfessor, can be more useful for this purpose than the supervised ones.

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a common, important disease associated with daytime sleepiness and a reduced quality of life. Moreover, untreated OSA is associated with increased healthcare utilisation and a significantly increased risk of motor vehicle crashes, hypertension, coronary artery disease and stroke. Treatment of patients with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) improves qua...

Students use both domain-dependent strategies (such as seeking specific domain help) and domain-independent strategies (such as relaxation exercises) to help regulate their affective states when learning. This paper reports a study that compared students’ performance in learning data-structures across two systems. While both systems supported domain-dependent strategies, one additionally suppor...

We report an experimental study on the effects of diagrams on deductive reasoning with double disjunctions,/i?/' example: Raphael is in Tacoma or Julia is in Atlanta, or both. Julia is in Atlanta or Paul is in Philadelphia, or both. What follows? We confirmed that subjects fmd it difficult to deduce a valid conclusion, such as Julia is in Atlanta, or both Raphael is in Tacoma and Paul is in Phi...

BACKGROUND Experience curve effects were first observed in the industrial arena as demonstrations of the relationship between experience and efficiency. These relationships were largely determined by improvements in management efficiency and quality of care. In the health care industry, volume-outcome relationships have been established with respect to quality of care improvement, but little is...