A need for more information uptake but not focused attention to access basic-level representations

Why we need more basic biology research, not less

Much of the spectacular progress in biomedical science over the last half-century is the direct consequence of the work of thousands of basic scientists whose primary goal was understanding of the fundamental working of living things. Despite this, many politicians, funders, and even scientists have come to believe that the pace of successful applications to medical diagnosis and therapy is lim...

A basic architecture for mobile information access

The mobility of users, devices, and information produces new challenges for processing of globally distributed information. This fact requires a new architecture for the selection, access and exchange of information in a mobile computing environment. In our approach the basic component for such an architecture is the so called Object Bus for the local and remote exchange of messages. Other main...

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

Automatic access to object identity: attention to global information, not to particular physical dimensions, is important.

The authors examined whether, by attending to physical properties of objects, participants can prevent the activation of semantic information. Participants received a reference object followed by a display containing both a matching target and a distractor. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants attended to motion and to surface texture, respectively. Some evidence for the processing of semantic ...

Algorithms and Representations for Personalised Information Access

Personalised information access systems use historical feedback data, such as implicit and explicit ratings for textual documents and other items, to better locate the right or relevant information for individual users. Three topics in personalised information access are addressed: learning from relevance feedback and document categorisation by the use of concept-based text representations, the...