The National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children fully endorses this white paper “Drug Endangered Children: Risk Factors & Neuropsychological and Psychosocial Development” authored by Kiti Freier Randall, PhD, which offers content to the Core DEC training program. This program’s evidence-based paper was developed from the nation’s top experts in the fields of pediatric neurodevelopment and ps...

This paper illustrates the use of WELSA adaptive educational system for the implementation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) course which is individualized to the learning style of each student. Several issues are addressed throughout this paper: i) What similar approaches exist in the literature?; ii) How is the AI course created?; iii) What kind of personalization is provided in the course a...

Chapman et al. reference a 2007 paper discussing Public health and the importance of low frequency noise (LFN), in which the LFN content of a 'Grain Terminal home' and a 'Wind Turbine home' are discussed.2 The grain terminal (GT) case, originally presented in 2004, was first-authored by our cardiologist,3 and the Wind Turbine (WT) case was first presented in 2007,4 with a follow-up in 2010.5 We...

This paper presents a number of approaches for web access for elderly people including: web page authoring guidelines; modification by a proxy server; access through special purpose browsers; browser interfaces adaptors; and assistive systems. The authors present their position, which is that a combination of well-authored pages together with a browser interface adaptor and, where necessary, ap...

We describe a large-scale experiment in which non-artificial intelligence subject matter experts (SMEs)—with neither artificial intelligence background nor extensive training in the task—author knowledge bases (KBs) following a challenge problem specification with a strong question-answering component. As a reference for comparison, professional knowledge engineers (KEs) author KBs following th...

Sentiment analysis predicts a one-dimensional quantity describing the positive or negative emotion of an author. Mood analysis extends the one-dimensional sentiment response to a multi-dimensional quantity, describing a diverse set of human emotions. In this paper, we extend sentiment and mood analysis temporally and model emotions as a function of time based on temporal streams of blog posts a...

The World Wide Web (Web) is the largest information repository containing billions of interconnected documents (called the web pages) which are authored by billions of people and organizations. The Web is huge, diverse, unstructured or semi structured, dynamic contents, and multilingual nature; make the effectively and efficiently searching information on the Web a challenging research problem....

Augmented Graph Grammars provide a robust formalism for representing and evaluating graph structures. With the advent of robust graph libraries such as AGG, it has become possible to use graph grammars to analyze realistic data. Prior studies have shown that graph rules can be used to evaluate student work and to identify empirically-valid substructures using hand-authored rules. In this paper ...

This paper addresses the almost never-ending headache the role of documentation has given for software projects. Working software has been given recently a focus over comprehensive documentation, yet the required documents should be authored. This paper “revisits” the approach developed by Nokia improving the documentation work without scarifying the quantity or quality of documentation. The me...

It was always apparent, so went the old saw, that one knew when electronic companies were successful because they moved into smaller premises. So it would seem is the case with aortic aneurysms and their associated incisions. One of the most astonishing clinical paradigm shifts in the last decade has been the employment of an endovascular approach to aortic aneurysm repair. In this edition, our...