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Misalignment of educational and career goals (i.e., educational aspirations expressed are inadequate for attaining one's desired occupation) is associated with lower educational attainment and a lack of college readiness, and may contribute to persistent educational and employment disparities. Drawing on data from 249 sixth graders in low-income schools, this research examines misalignment betw...

This talk centers around some audacious conjectures that attempt to forge firm links between computational complexity classes and the study of Kolmogorov complexity. More specifically, let R denote the set of Kolmogorov-random strings. Let BPP denote the class of problems that can be solved with negligible error by probabilistic polynomial-time computations, and let NEXP denote the class of pro...

The main goal of this work is to propose a method to evaluate user interfaces using task models and logs generated from a user test of an application. The method can be incorporated into an automatic tool which gives the designer information useful to evaluate and improve the user interface. These results include an analysis of the tasks which have been accomplished, those which failed and thos...

The amateurish psychological analyses our mothers make and the study of social psychology must each be abandoned by those interested in developing a truly scientific study of cognition. Similarly, any school of psychology which refers to the referents or semantic elements of mentalistic terms must be dismissed as unlikely to contribute to the science of cognition. This would include such additi...

To be audacious and take significant steps toward achieving the Quadruple Aim (improving the patient experience of care; improving the health of populations; reducing the per capita cost of health care; and improving the work life of clinicians and staff), we patients and caregivers need to better understand key features of our health journeys. When on that health journey, we are patients inter...

Although much is known about the regenerative capacity of retinal ganglion cells, very significant barriers remain in our ability to restore visual function following traumatic injury or disease-induced degeneration. Here we summarize our current understanding of the factors regulating axon guidance and target engagement in regenerating axons, and review the state of the field of neural regener...

where aij , bi, V are nice functions in R (say Lipschitz). Fixing a domain D ⊂ R we denote by CL(D) the class of all positive solutions of the equation Lu = 0 in D. Properties of CL(D) may be studied from an analytic point of view, a probabilistic one using diffusions, or with techniques from both fields combined. The point of the book under review is to give an exposition of this last, integra...