Authors: *S. A. PRESCOTT1, Y. DE KONINCK2, T. J. SEJNOWSKI1,3; 1CNL, Salk Inst, La Jolla, CA, 2Cellular Neurobiology, Laval University / CRULRG, Quebec, PQ, CANADA, 3Div. of Biological Sciences, UCSD, La Jolla, CA. Integration and coincidence detection represent antithetical strategies used by neurons to encode information. Integrators generate spikes by summing temporally dispersed inputs wher...

Whistleblower laws protect individuals who inform the public or an authority about governmental or corporate misconduct. Despite these laws, whistleblowers frequently risk reprisals and sites such as WikiLeaks emerged to provide a level of anonymity to these individuals. However, as countries increase their level of network surveillance and Internet protocol data retention, the mere act of usin...

Since the introduction of the full text online version of JMG, the number of people accessing JMG Online at www.jmedgenet.com has increased progressively. It appears, therefore, that the advantages of electronic publishing are appreciated by the JMG readership. While JMG Online has been an undoubted success, there are many ways in which the potential of electronic publishing can be exploited fu...

BACKGROUND AND AIM With the increasing demand to publish due to 'publish or perish' culture among research and academic institutions, the choice of a journal for publishing scientific articles becomes very important. A publication with many citations and high impact factor can propel researchers in their academic careers. The aim of this study is to explore the perceptions of medical and dental...

Effective mining of data from online submission systems offers the potential to improve educational outcomes by identifying student habits and behaviours and their relationship with levels of achievement. In particular, it may assist in identifying students at risk of performing poorly, allowing for early intervention. In this paper we investigate different methods of following the development ...

Software engineering is becoming increasingly important as an engineering discipline, and its teaching in universities and other higher education institutions should be of high quality. In this paper we describe a tool (BOSS — the Boss Online Submission System) which aids the education of software engineers. BOSS allows students to submit programming assignments online, and to run black-box tes...

We present a principled approach to selecting a surface reflectance model and setting its parameters. The approach is based on fundamental physical principles, comparisons between different models, and practical insight into the characteristics of real surfaces. Four models of surface reflectance were evaluated by comparing them with physical measurements on five different sample surfaces. Conc...

Computer programming lends itself to automated assessment. With appropriate software tools program correctness can be measured, along with an indication of quality according to a set of metrics. Furthermore, the regularity of program code allows plagiarism detection to be an integral part of the tools that support assessment. In this paper, we consider a submission and assessment system, called...