Some theories suggest that spontaneously activated, drug-related associations in memory may have a "freer reign" in predicting drug use among individuals with lower working memory capacity. This study evaluated this hypothesis among 145 at-risk youth attending continuation high schools (CHS). This is the 1st study to evaluate this type of dual-process interaction in the prediction of drug use a...

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of nonpersonalized recommendations in the PATHS system. This system allows users to explore items from Europeana in new ways. Recommendations of the type “people who viewed this item also viewed this item” are powered by pairs of viewed items mined from Europeana. However, due to limited usage data only 10.3% of items in the PATHS dataset ...

UNLABELLED The program General Codon Usage Analysis (GCUA) has been developed for analysing codon and amino acid usage patterns. AVAILABILITY ftp://ftp.nhm.ac.uk/pub/gcua. Freely available for academic use, commercial users should contact the author. CONTACT [email protected]

Virtual teams are increasingly global, creating challenges for communication and coordination due to greater distances, multiple time zones, and cultural differences. A longitudinal research program investigating communication and collaboration in globally distributed engineering design teams is described. Preliminary results illustrate the value of combining quantitative and qualitative source...

BACKGROUND Supervised injection facilities (SIFs) are legally sanctioned environments for people to inject drugs under medical supervision. SIFs currently operate in ten countries, but to date, no SIF has been opened in the USA. In light of increasing overdose mortality in the USA, this study evaluated willingness to use a SIF among youth who report non-medical prescription opioid (NMPO) use. ...

Licit and illicit drug use in pregnant women constitutes a long lasting and serious problem worldwide. Information on long-term effects of maternal drug use on the child is limited. Nationwide registers provide a great potential to study short and long-term consequences for children exposed to licit and illicit drugs during pregnancy. We discuss this potential, with a special emphasis on exposu...

How to select interesting feature sets from data streams is a new and important research topic in which there are three major challenges. First of all, instead of discovering features individually and independently, we are interested in comprehensively selecting a subset of features whose joint importance or weight is the highest. Secondly, we are concerned with the problem of selecting feature...

Much of the text of pen resources such as Wikipedia is written at a college level of readability, thus posing an access barrier to the general public. Reading levels are important when considering wiki approaches for a K-12 OER community, and even more so when developing for minority language schools. In Canada, many students learning in a minority language setting lack the environmental influe...

ion and Refinement for Solving Continuous Markov Decision Processes Alberto Reyesand Pablo Ibargüengoytia Inst. de Inv. Eléctricas Av. Reforma 113, Palmira, Cuernavaca, Mor., México {areyes,pibar}@iie.org,mx L. Enrique Sucar and Eduardo Morales INAOE Luis Enrique Erro 1, Sta. Ma. Tonantzintla, Pue., México {esucar,emorales}@inaoep.mx