Eyewitness memory is widely believed to be unreliable because (1) high-confidence eyewitness misidentifications played a role in over 70% of the now more than 300 DNA exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, (2) forensically-relevant laboratory studies have often reported a weak relationship between eyewitness confidence and accuracy, and (3) memory is sufficiently malleable that, no...

Phylogenetic analysis may be considered to be a highly reliable and important bioinformatics tool. The importance of phylogenetic analysis lies in its simple manifestation and easy handling of data. The simple tree representation of the evolution makes the phylogenetic analysis easier to comprehend and represent as well. The varied applications of phylogenetics in different fields of biology ma...

Exposure is a key variable in traffic safety research. In the literature, it is noted as the first and primary determinant of traffic safety. In many cases, however, no valid exposure measure is available. In Belgium, we have access to monthly traffic counts for 12 years. This offers the opportunity to investigate the added value of exposure in our models, next to legal, economic and climatolog...

Boron-doped nanographite ensembles (NGEs) are interesting thermoelectric nanomaterials for high temperature applications. Rapid induction annealing and quenching has been applied to boron-doped NGEs using a relatively low-cost, highly reliable, laboratory built furnace to show that substantial improvements in thermoelectric power factors can be achieved using this methodology. Details of the de...

We present a conversion from the dependency scheme employed by the Pro3Gres parser to the Stanford scheme, as a further step towards unification of dependency schemes. An evaluation of the conversion shows that it is highly reliable, resulting in less than one percentage point performance penalty on the actual parser output. This supports the suitability of the Stanford scheme as a unifying rep...

A communications infrastructure is necessary in order to integrate numerous devices on the smart grid. Among the key technology areas, the implementation of integrated communications infrastructure needs to be performed with the highest priority to build the smart grid efficiently. To encounter possible disruptions of the grid system, a highly reliable, scalable, secure, robust and cost-effecti...

Kwan, John, Kenny, Bond, and Robins conceptualize self-enhancement as a favorable comparison of self-judgments with judgments of and by others. Applying a modified version of Kwan et al.'s approach to behavior observation data, we show that the resulting measure of self-enhancement bias is highly reliable, predicts self-ratings of intelligence as well as does actual intelligence, interacts with...

To understand fine-scale structure and function of single mammalian neuronal networks, we developed and validated a strategy to genetically target and trace monosynaptic inputs to a single neuron in vitro and in vivo. The strategy independently targets a neuron and its presynaptic network for specific gene expression and fine-scale labeling, using single-cell electroporation of DNA to target in...

Lidar measurements of the aerosol depolarization ratio provide highly reliable informations to discriminate between spherical and non-spherical particles in the atmosphere and they can help to distinguish between liquid and solid phase aerosols. These measurements can be performed by using a linearly polarized laser source and a hardware configuration of the receiving system including two chann...