Yes, but … One Librarian’s Thoughts About Doing It Right

Tool Dissemination Doing It Right

B iomedical computing at academic research centers has been compared to a cottage industry. Lots of individuals work away on their focused research projects, generating useful algorithms. But quite often, the knowledge gained is lost when researchers move on to new projects. Yes, they might post their code on Web sites. But is it useful to anyone else without support and documentation? And how ...

Perioperative cardiac risk reduction: doing it right.

Thinking about it: thoughts about health and valuing QALYs.

When valuing health states (e.g., for use in the assessment of health technologies), health economists often ask respondents how many years of life in poor health they would be willing to trade-off in order to live in full health. Problems with preferences of this kind have led to calls for the use of more direct measures of the utility associated with experiencing a health state. The fact rema...

Diagrams about Thoughts about Thoughts about Diagrams

The study of diagrammatic reasoning often focuses on computational models of diagram use rather than on studies of human performance. This paper considers diagrams as a notational system that can be used and studied in an experimental context. It presents a review of the experimental psychology literature rather than a complete theoretical framework, and is intended as an introduction to the fi...

Doing It Again and Again May Be Difficult, But It Depends on What You Are Doing

Sentence interpretation is integrating the information of incoming lexical items into a coherent whole. But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion (Moens & Steedman, 1988; Pustejovsky, 1995). There is a growing body of experimental work that investigates the processing conse...