Outstanding Awards Brief Reports

Awards: Outstanding TA Award

Outstanding Employees Honored With Awards for Excellence

Gisela Telis was recognized for making her mark ? online, on the radio and on television ? as a content producer for Arizona Public Media [4]. Telis has received Emmy Awards for her work bringing attention to mental health issues. In her nomination letter, Jack Gibson, director and general manager of Arizona Public Media, wrote that Telis' work "exemplifies the best and most meaningful aspects ...

Announcing the 2006 Measurement Science and Technology Outstanding Paper Awards

Chairmen of the four working groups, March 2007 Since 1991, Measurement Science and Technology has awarded a Best Paper prize. The Editorial Board of this journal believes that such a prize is an opportunity to thank authors for submitting their work, and serves as an integral part of the on-going quality review of the journal. The current breadth of topical areas that are covered by MST has ma...

BRIEF REPORTS Motivation Sharpens Exogenous Spatial Attention

Although both attention and motivation affect behavior, how these 2 systems interact is currently unknown. To address this question, 2 experiments were conducted in which participants performed a spatially cued forced-choice localization task under varying levels of motivation. Participants were asked to indicate the location of a peripherally cued target while ignoring a distracter. Motivation...

Brief educational reports: a new manuscript category.

In this issue of CJEM, there is an updated version of the Instructions to Authors. Included with the update is the introduction of a new submission category: the Brief Educational Report. In a July 2010, editorial, there was a challenge to the Canadian emergency medicine (EM) community to share its education innovations. The challenge was to increase not only education research— the discovery o...