Aging in Prisons: It Only Gets Worse

Acceptance of the Kober Medal: It only gets better.

Same as It Ever Was, Only Worse: Negative Life Events

This study is a qualitative grounded theory examination of the preand post-Katrina life of hurricane survivors. Forty heads of households with school-age children who lived in New orleans during Hurricane Katrina were interviewed 6 to 8 months apart. Findings suggest that low-income study participants had experienced multiple negative life events linked to their poverty status prior to Hurrican...

Overfitting in Wrapper-Based Feature Subset Selection: The Harder You Try the Worse it Gets

In Wrapper based feature selection, the more states that are visited during the search phase of the algorithm the greater the likelihood of finding a feature subset that has a high internal accuracy while generalizing poorly. When this occurs, we say that the algorithm has overfitted to the training data. We outline a set of experiments to show this and we introduce a modified genetic algorithm...

Why Pain Gets Worse: The Mechanism of Heat Hyperalgesia

Pain differs from other senses in many ways; one of the most striking is that the intensity of pain increases with time in the presence of a painful stimulus, a process that is referred to as sensitization or hyperalgesia. With all the other senses, the perceived intensity decreases with continuous exposure to a constant stimulus. For instance, when you emerge from a cinema onto a sunny street ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy diagnostics: it only gets better but some of the same challenges remain.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a neuromuscular disease characterized by progressive muscular weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscle. DMD is the most common X-linked recessive lethal disease, with an incidence of approximately 1 in 3500 newborns (1 ). Most patients are diagnosed at about 5 years of age, when their physical ability diverges markedly from that of their peers. Weakness ...