How using architectural technology can improve reconstructing social structure in an industrial sector

How can audio technology improve working conditions?

Hearing is one of the most important human senses. The fact that we can perceive sound helps us to locate and classify sound sources and forms the basis of our speech communication. The healthy hearing system is astonishingly robust towards adverse acoustic conditions such as background noise, competing speech or reverberation. In modern societies, however, hearing deficiencies are widely sprea...

How the Private Sector Can Improve Public Transportation Infrastructure

Transportation infrastructure significantly contributes to a nation’s prosperity by facilitating workers’ access to employers, consumers’ access to shopping and leisure activities, and firms’ access to capital, labour and potential customers. The public sector has generally provided the vast amount of a nation’s infrastructure – roadways, waterways, railways and airways – and expanded it to sat...

How social information can improve estimation accuracy in human groups

In our digital and connected societies, the development of social networks, online shopping, and reputation systems raises the questions of how individuals use social information and how it affects their decisions. We report experiments performed in France and Japan, in which subjects could update their estimates after having received information from other subjects. We measure and model the im...

How Electronic Clinical Data Can Improve Health Technology Assessment

Health technology assessments represent comprehensive summaries of available evidence and information on a technology. They are used by medical decision makers in a variety of ways, including diagnostic testing, treatment selection, care management, patient perspectives, patient safety, insurance coverage, pharmaceutical innovation, equipment planning, device purchasing, and total cost-of-care....

How Can Personalized Medicine Improve Assisted Reproduction Technology Outcomes?