8 US Government Work Not Protected by US Copyright IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS This installment of the AI in Space department looks at the process NASA uses to plan and execute an astronaut’s “day in the life.” As I do so, I will examine new planning and scheduling technologies recently presented at the Third International NASA Workshop on Planning and Scheduling for Space, held in Houston last Oc...

Public Health Reports / March–April 2015 / Volume 130 The ability to generate and use large amounts of information about patient and population health, health-care treatment, and the outcomes of care represents a fundamental breakthrough in health-care quality improvement and population health management. Creating and using what has become known as “big data” raises many legal issues, as this i...

, © Bik This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. Several new papers about microbes and the built environment came out or came up in my searches this weekend, so time for another installment. S...

This third installment of my tour covers three more distributions that are supported via the standard LTEX bug report mechanism described in Part 1. The mfnfss distribution provides LTEX support for some popular Metafont produced fonts, that do not otherwise have any LTEX interface. The psnfss distribution consists of LTEX packages giving access to PostScript fonts. The third distribution in th...

Thank you very much for providing us the opportunity to comment on the most recent package of consultative papers proposing revisions to the Basel Capital Accord (the “Proposal”). Capital One Financial Corporation, Falls Church, Virginia (together, with all of its subsidiaries and affiliates, "Capital One") is a holding company whose principal subsidiaries, Capital One Bank, Glen Allen, Virgini...

We are pleased to present a series of Annotated Classics celebrating 40 years of exciting biology in the pages of Cell. This installment revisits “Recognition of Commensal Microflora by Toll-like Receptors Is Required for Intestinal Homeostasis” from the Medzhitov lab. Here, Sarkis Mazmanian comments on how Rakoff-Nahoum et al. demonstrated that Toll-like receptors not only recognize ligands fr...

We are pleased to present a series of Annotated Classics celebrating 40 years of exciting biology in the pages of Cell. This installment revisits “The Protein CTCF Is Required for the Enhancer Blocking Activity of Vertebrate Insulators” by Dr. Gary Felsenfeld and his colleagues. Here, Dr. Victor G. Corces comments on the landmark discovery of the insulator activity of CTCF from Felsenfeld, who ...

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a two-part post by Amitai Etzioni examining the nation’s anti-obesity policies through the lens of a responsive communitarian philosophy. Yesterday, Etzioni laid out a responsive communitarian framework and used it to diagnose the problems with our current methods of fighting obesity. Today, Etzioni describes how these current policies should be ...

This is the fifth part in a series addressing the most common health concerns as we age. Previous parts have discussed cardiovascular disease, weight loss and blood sugar. In this installment, I will discuss cognitive health and the steps we can take to improve brain function as we age. Cognitive health is vital to independence, productivity and quality of life. The thought of losing cherished ...