BACKGROUND A randomized control trial demonstrated that a computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (cCBT) program (Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts [SPARX]) was an appealing and efficacious treatment for depression for adolescents in New Zealand. Little is known about the acceptability of computerized therapy programs for rural Australians and the suitability of computeriz...

OBJECTIVE A recent Institute of Medicine report called for attention to safety issues related to electronic health records (EHRs). We analyzed EHR-related safety concerns reported within a large, integrated healthcare system. METHODS The Informatics Patient Safety Office of the Veterans Health Administration (VA) maintains a non-punitive, voluntary reporting system to collect and investigate ...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review the literature for studies on cognitive functioning in patients with low-grade glioma to evaluate assessment methods and prevalence of cognitive dysfunction. DATA SOURCES A search was made in PubMed, Embase, and PsycINFO for articles published between January 2002 and June 2012 using cognition, memory, attention, executive functioning, and low-grade glioma a...

Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) is mainly resulting to trim down the drawbacks of current unbalanced and inefficient spectrum utilization on licensed spectrum bands. Routing is one of the most important and fundamental mechanism in the cognitive radio networks. To overcome the limitations of existing routing mechanism, many researchers develop a routing framework which is based on Semi Structur...

The Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE) is a brief screening instrument frequently used to evaluate and monitor patients with different types of dementia. Each cognitive domain evaluated with MMSE has corresponding brain areas that responsible for that function. The purpose of this study was to attempt better understanding of relations between cognitive function and brain regions responsible ...

Determining sources of item difficulty and using them for selection or development of test items is a bridging task of psychometrics and cognitive psychology. A key problem in this task is the validation of hypothesized cognitive operations required for correct solution of test items. In previous research, the problem has been addressed frequently via use of the linear logistic test model for p...

Energy efficiency in cognitive radio networks has received lots of research attention lately due to the impact low energy efficiency has on the design, implementation and performance of the network. In this research, cognitive radio network as regards to energy efficiency has been analyzed. The importance of energy efficiency in cognitive radio networks and sources of unnecessary energy consump...

Hierarchical Bayesian modeling provides a flexible and interpretable way of extending simple models of cognitive processes. To introduce this special issue, we discuss four of the most important potential hierarchical Bayesian contributions. The first involves the development of more complete theories, including accounting for variation coming from sources like individual differences in cogniti...

The cognitive radio channel with common message (CRCC) is considered. In this channel, similar to the cognitive radio channel (CRC), we have a cognitive user which has full non-causal knowledge of the primary message, and like the interference channel with common message (ICC), the information sources at the two transmitters are statistically dependent and the senders need to transmit not only ...