The immense growth of data demands switching from traditional data processing solutions to systems, which can process a continuous stream of real time data. Various applications employ stream processing systems to provide solutions to emerging Big Data problems. Open-source solutions such as Storm, Spark Streaming and S4 are an attempt to answer key stream processing questions. The recent intro...

Dr. Leopoldo Di Iorio: On the basis of this clinical presentation, four main hypotheses were considered and simultaneously investigated. First, a cardiogenic shock was considered (subjects with Down’s syndrome can often have multiple cardiac abnormalities, such as atrium-ventricular channel, ventricular or atrial defects, Fallot’s tetralogy), but echocardiography excluded significant alteration...

Despite the availability of various anticancer agents, Multiple Myeloma (MM) remains incurable in most cases, along with high relapse rate in the patients treated with these agents. The year 2015 saw major advancements in our battle against multiple myeloma. In 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved three new therapies for multiple myeloma, namely Ixazomib (an oral proteasom...

Hypothesis testing is a crucial component of science. This leads to guidelines (often ignored) in most discipline including psychology. Unfortunately, most focus on significant effects. Nonsignificant effects are sidelined, in spite of their importance to scientific progress. This study reports a survey of practicing scientist on how they would report and interpret explicit scenarios with non-s...

Abstract Interactions among the environment, humans and language underlie many of most pressing challenges we face today. This study investigates use different verbs to encode various weather events in Sinitic languages, a family spoken over wide range climates with 3000 years continuous textual documentation. We propose synergise concepts kinesis that grew from Aristotle’s original ideas accou...

Brown Pelicans (Pelecanus occidentalis) plunge dive into water to capture fish with highly distensible pouches. During prey capture, the pouch may expand to hold 11 L of water and the mandibular rami may bow from a resting position of 5 cm to over 15 cm. We compared mineralization of two bending regions of the mandible with a nonbending region, and examined cross-sectional morphology to determi...

Researchers often measure attitudes and beliefs using ‘‘some/ other’’ questions (‘‘Some people think that . . . but other people think that . . .’’) instead of asking simpler ‘‘direct’’ questions. This article reports studies testing the hypothesis that the some/other question form yields improved response validity. Eight experiments embedded in national surveys provided no evidence in support ...

Animal movement receives widespread attention within ecology and behavior. However, much research is restricted within isolated sub-disciplines focusing on single phenomena such as navigation (e.g. homing behavior), search strategies (e.g. Levy flights) or theoretical considerations of optimal population dispersion (e.g. ideal free distribution). To help synthesize existing research, we outline...