Conquering the Meatspace

Gaming in Meatspace

Conquering Neutrophils

Neutrophils are the most abundant innate immune cells, making up 50%–70% of all leukocytes. Neutrophils are the “first responders” of host defense, preventing infections by deploying sophisticated antimicrobial strategies acting in concert. As neutrophils are short-living cells, they are continuously produced and released from the bone marrow in abundance (>10 per day). Circulating neutrophils ...

Angelika Amon: Conquering the divide

M itosis is a fantastically complex process, but the simple beauty of chromosome segregation can captivate even the untrained eye. When Angelika Amon saw a video of a dividing cell as a schoolgirl in Austria, it set her on a path to a professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, where she continues to investigate chromosome segregation and the consequences of mit...

The RISE System: Conquering without Separating

Current rule induction systems (e.g. CN2) typically rely on a \separate and conquer" strategy, learning each rule only from still-uncovered examples. This results in a dwindling number of examples being available for learning successive rules, adversely a ecting the system's accuracy. An alternative is to learn all rules simultaneously, using the entire training set for each. This approach is i...

Conquering Fatigue: the Battle for Engagement

Mental fatigue is often characterized by reduced motivation for effortful activity and impaired task performance. We used subjective, behavioral (performance), and psychophysiological (P3, pupil diameter) measures during an n-back task to investigate the link between mental fatigue and task disengagement. After two hours we manipulated the rewards to examine a possible reengagement effect. Anal...