We have developed an open-source cross-platform software toolkit entitled ACCEPT-NMR (Automated Crystal Contact Extrapolation/Prediction Toolkit for NMR) as a helpful tool to automate many of the complex tasks required to find and visualize crystal contacts in structures of biomolecules and biomolecular assemblies. This toolkit provides many powerful features geared toward NMR spectroscopy and ...

The ability to communicate with others is of paramount importance for mental well-being. In this paper, we describe an interaction system to reduce communication barriers for people with severe speech and physical impairments (SSPI) such as cerebral palsy. The system consists of two main components: (i) the head-mounted human-computer interaction (HCI) part consisting of smart glasses with gaze...

Creating a virtual classroom in which diverse students feel welcome to discuss and experience topics related to social justice, action, and change is a study in the value of connectedness and collaboration. Through a combination of technologies, pedagogies, and on-site experiences, virtual cultures develop that encourage the formation of demanding yet stimulating learning environments in which ...

Scheduling can be formalized as a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP). Within this framework activities in a plan are interconnected via temporal relation constraints a la Allen, thereby defining a temporal constraint graph (TCG). Additionally there are capacity constraints restricting the use of each resource to only one activity at a time. Together these constraints form a temporallcapacity...

Trust has shown to be an important factor both in the adoption of e-commerce but also in ongoing relationships between buyers and sellers. Information systems literature has discussed trust extensively, yet traditionally mostly focusing on the adoption phase. However, signs of increasing interest to post-adoptive phenomena, such as customer loyalty, can be seen in the recent IS and ecommerce li...

Online service recovery tools such as managerial responses are increasingly used by service providers to address customer concerns in online WOM platforms. In this paper, we analyze the effectiveness of such online service recovery effort on customer satisfaction using data retrieved from a major online travel agency in China. We find that online service recovery is highly effective among the l...

Plant polyphenol oxidases (PPOs) are widely distributed and well-studied oxidative enzymes, and their effects on discoloration in damaged and diseased plant tissues have been known for many years. The discovery in C.A. Ryan’s laboratory in the mid-1990s that tomato PPO is induced by the herbivore defense signals systemin and jasmonate, together with seminal work on PPO’s possible effects on her...

Although many believe that we have lost the battle for privacy, protection of what’s left of the user’s privacy is all the more important. Not only should a user be able to minimize the disclosure of her personal data, she should also have rights to decide what happens with her data once they have been disclosed. In order to minimize user interaction when deciding whether or not to reveal perso...

BACKGROUND Expected pain relief from treatment is associated with positive clinical outcomes in patients with musculoskeletal pain. Less studied is the influence on outcomes related to the preference of patients and providers for a specific treatment. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine how provider and patient preferences for a manual therapy intervention influenced outcomes in individuals wit...