The correlations and network structure amongst individuals in datasets today—whether explicitly articulated, or deduced from biological or behavioral connections—pose new issues around privacy guarantees, because of inferences that can be made about one individual from another’s data. This motivates quantifying privacy in networked contexts in terms of ‘inferential privacy’—which measures the c...

Decorticate rigidity is a type of abnormal posturing that can make it difficult to move a patient and to change the patient's position to prevent a decubitus ulcer. This condition poses a latent risk of bed sores. To prevent those complications, we used electroacupuncutre for decorticate rigidity of the upper limbs in a patient with anoxic brain damage. A 51-year-old man complained of rigidity ...

The inferential reasoning account of causal learning holds that effortful reasoning processes underpin causal judgments. Evidence for this account comes from demonstrations that performance on cue competition tasks is affected by pretraining showing causal cues to be additive in their effects. If inferential reasoning underpins the additivity effect, then we might expect this effect to emerge d...

A think-aloud method was used to examine the content of information available to working memory during narrative comprehension in a CHI population. Twenty severe CHI participants (>1 year post-injury) and 20 controls talked aloud after they read each sentence of story narratives. Trabasso and Magliano's (1996a) verbal protocol analysis was then used to code for the production of inferential and...

Substrate rigidity has been recognized as an important property that affects cellular physiology and functions. While the phenomenon has been well recognized, understanding the underlying mechanism may be greatly facilitated by creating a microenvironment with designed rigidity patterns. This chapter describes in detail an optimized method for preparing substrates with micropatterned rigidity, ...