1. Link and foster relationships between inventors and innovators. Invention and innovation require different skills rarely found in the same person. 2. Don’t ignore “trivial” advances. Major innovations often have small, but profitable beginnings, and then are extended to other fields. 3. Be aware of movements that drive consumer interest due to social change, demographics, and contagion. 4. K...

Infants are bombarded with a bewildering array of events to learn. In such an environment, referential cues (e.g., gestures or symbols) highlight which events infants should learn. Although many studies have documented which referential cues guide attention and learning during infancy, few have investigated how this learning occurs. The present eyetracking study provides clear evidence for a so...

A “list as long as your arm” has described the range of principles that may be attempted for possible eddy parameterization schemes. We feel uncomfortably an attitude of “try and see” whether any particular principle “works” in any particular application. This note summarises a discussion which followed the body of presentations at ‘Aha. We ask if principles from general physics, especially not...

Acupuncture is a therapeutic or preventative therapy through the stimulation on acupoints that located on the body surface across the anatomy to affect the functions of specific organs or soft tissues. During the acupuncture training process, mapping the acupuncture map to patients could be a challenging work since the trainees mainly rely on the instruction from experienced acupuncturists. In ...

An instrument was developed to establish a tract through the muscle layer for percutaneous nephrostomy. The specially designed clamp holds a guide wire or rod and opens the muscle layer easily and safely. It is not as dangerous as a knife and is inexpensive compared with a disposable balloon dilator.

Here we present a pilot study into whether elliptical galaxy counts alone, can place a useful constraint on the Ω M − Ω Λ-plane. The elliptical galaxy counts are drawn from three surveys: The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue (16 > B KP N O > 20), the B-band Parallel Survey (20 > B AB > 24) and the Hubble Deep Fields (23 > B AB > 28). The elliptical luminosity function used in the modeling was derive...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication is a highly regulated process requiring the recruitment of viral and cellular components to the plasma membrane for assembly into infectious particles. This review highlights the recent process of understanding the selection of the genomic RNA (gRNA) by the viral Pr55(Gag) precursor polyprotein, and the processes leading to its incorporati...

Law often grows from social norms that create order. Many social norms change behavior by imposing obligations on people. I model the evolution of effective consensus obligations. Some consensus obligations succeed on their own and others require the backing of state law. This paper analyzes the causes of normative failure and provides a diagnostic tool for legal intervention. Characterizing fa...

In multi-data learning, it is usually assumed that common latent factors exist among multi-datasets, but it may lead to deteriorated performance when datasets are heterogeneous and unbalanced. In this paper, we propose a novel common structure for multi-data learning. Instead of common latent factors, we assume that datasets share Common Adjacency Graph (CAG) structure, which is more robust to ...