With visual analytical tools becoming more sophisticated and prevalent in the analysis communities, it is now apparent that understanding how analysts utilize these tools is more important than ever. Such understanding can lead to improving the tools, but a more subtle and equally important aspect lies in the discovery of the analysts’ reasoning process for solving complex problems through the ...

The title of my talk, “Living Neoplatonism,” is intentionally ambiguous, for it can refer, first, to Neoplatonism as a living philosophy rather than as a historical artifact embodied in the writings of Plotinus, Proclus, and the rest. And second, it can refer to the practice of living Neoplatonically as a modern way of life. But why Neoplatonism, as opposed to some other philosophy? From my per...

While many information technology vendors deliberately cut their products’ lifecycles to elicit repeat purchases, consumers are often unaware of such planned obsolescence. This paper investigates the effects of atypical two-sided communication about planned obsolescence on consumers’ beliefs and buying intentions. Drawing upon insights from inoculation theory, we hypothesize that trust and inte...

Planned experiments are usually expected to provide maximal benefits within limited costs. However, there are known difficulties in optimal design of experiments. They are related to the case when only limited number of parameters could be estimated, because available experiments are noninformative. The useful method for this case is considered based on the dominant parameters selection procedu...

Glycyrrhiza glabra extract is gaining increasing acceptance as a folk remedy for treatment of wound. We studied the effect of its extract on wound tensile strength in albino rats. 20 male albino rats had a linear 3 cm incision made over skin of back. The animals were randomly divided into two experimental groups, as control and treatment. Animals of control group received topical cold cream onc...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we propose two preconditioned AOR iterative methods to solve systems of linear equations whose coefficient matrices are Z-matrix‎. ‎These methods can be considered as improvements of two previously presented ones in the literature‎. ‎Finally some numerical experiments are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed preconditioners‎.‎

There has been much interest in uncovering protein-protein interactions and their underlying domain-domain interactions. Many experimental techniques have been developed, for example yeast-two-hybrid screening and tandem affinity purification. Since it is time consuming and expensive to perform exhaustive experimental screens, in silico methods are used for predicting interactions. However, all...

The purpose of the three studies reported here was to formulate a framework for understanding the development of scientific reasoning processes. Subjects were placed in a simulated scientific discovery context by first teaching them how to use an electronic device and then asking them to discover how a hitherto unencountered function worked. To do this task, subjects had to formulate hypotheses...

The importance of biomolecules is well recognized nowadays, owing to their application in many industrial processes, particularly in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industries. Amino acids, carbohydrates, and proteins are the three types of biomolecules considered in this review. Solubilities of several amino acids and sugars have been measured in water and, more recently, in mixed solve...

Recent advances in high-throughput experimental techniques have enabled the production of a wealth of protein interaction data, rich in both quantity and variety. While the sheer quantity and variety of data present special difficulties for modeling, they also present unique opportunities for gaining insight into protein behavior by leveraging multiple perspectives. Recent work on the modularit...