Making Policies about Emerging Technologies

How Audiences Form Attitudes about Emerging Technologies

How do people form opinions about scientific issues? It is, suggests Dietram A Scheufele, unrealistic to expect people to sift through masses of information to draw up a reasoned conclusion. We are mostly ‘cognitive misers’, drawing upon a minimum amount of information. What is crucial is how an issue is ‘framed’ – the context in which it is communicated and how it fits with people’s pre-existi...

Balancing Risks and Rewards: How Attitudinal Ambivalence Influences Information-Processing and Decision-Making About Emerging Technologies

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Hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients has been considered part of the standard of care in managing patients with shock and/or acute lung injury, but outcome benefit, particularly in pediatric patients, has been questioned. There is difficulty in validating the reliability of monitoring devices, especially since this validation requires comparison to the pulmonary artery catheter, wh...

Emerging Technologies

I t is difficult to believe how much musculoskeletal medicine has improved over the past 30 years. In the sports medicine world, the arthroscope has been one of the instruments that has revolutionized orthopaedic care of the synovial joints, especially the knee, shoulder, and recently, the hip. These developments are far beyond what orthopaedic entrepreneurs of the 1970s and 1980s could imagine...

Emerging Technologies Project : Cluster Technologies

The purpose of the Emerging Technologies project to which this work belongs, is to compare the applicability of cluster computers to various problems to that of conventional supercomputers. This article details the rewriting of an existing Particle-In-Cell electrostatic simulation code targeted at SMP computers to a message-passing approach, and a comparison of the results obtained when running...