During the last years some new variants of Permutation entropy have been introduced and applied to EEG analysis, among them a conditional variant and variants using some additional metric information or being based on entropies different from the Shannon entropy. In some situations it is not completely clear what kind of information the new measures and their algorithmic implementations provide...

Crowdsourcing initiatives are becoming a popular tool for new idea generation for firms. On crowdsourced ideation initiatives, individuals contribute new product ideas and vote on other's ideas which they would like the firm to implement. The firm then decides which ideas to implement. Although such initiatives are widely adopted in many different industries, they face increasing criticism as t...

How does gesturing help children learn? Gesturing might encourage children to extract meaning implicit in their hand movements. If so, children should be sensitive to the particular movements they produce and learn accordingly. Alternatively, all that may matter is that children move their hands. If so, they should learn regardless of which movements they produce. To investigate these alternati...

BACKGROUND To meet the challenge of multimorbidity in decision making, a switch from a disease-oriented to a goal-oriented approach could be beneficial for patients and clinicians. More insight about the concept and the implementation of this approach in clinical practice is needed. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to develop conceptual descriptions of goal-oriented care by examining the perspectiv...

The systemic actions of aldosterone are well documented; however, in comparison, our understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which aldosterone orchestrates these actions is rudimentary. Aldosterone exerts most of its physiological actions by modifying gene expression. It is now apparent that aldosterone represses almost as many genes as it induces. Several aldosterone-sensitiv...

This paper considers a process for the creation and subsequent firing of sequences of neuronal patterns, as might be found in the human brain. The scale is one of larger patterns emerging from an ensemble mass, possibly through some type of energy equation and a reduction procedure. The links between the patterns can be formed naturally, as a residual effect of the pattern creation itself. If t...

In this paper, we discuss some new ideas on computing coherent algebras. A space optimal algorithm which computes a canonical coherent coloring and ful lls the best known time bound of O(n3 log n) is given. Moreover, we present computational results obtained by an implementation of the algorithm.

This paper outlines our work with children who use our smart textiles construction kit in a “living lab”. Our constructionist approach to participatory design with children is inspired by Allison Druin’s “Cooperative Inquiry”. The main idea is to not only develop software and hardware for and with children, but more importantly to enable insight and a rich learning experience via deep involveme...