The recent issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology made an important and interesting theme “What is the Best Research for Low Income Countries?” (1). We enjoyed reading the paper; nevertheless we hope to find a chance to share our idea. It was mentioned that some, for sure not all, researchers from the developed countries might not have enough motivation to contribute to the scient...

Abstract “My biggest motivation is to observe the progress of my students day by … My favorite time morning when I am walking along Jin River campus …” Find out more about Jian-Bo Zhu in his Introducing Profile.

Children seem to have a natural tendency to imitate and their interest for particular kinds of imitative behaviour varies greatly with the infant’s age. We argue that different forms of children’s early imitation may be the result of an intrinsic motivation system driving the infant into situations of maximal learning progress. We present a computational model showing how an agent can learn to ...

Over the past few years significant progress has been made in developing a computer vision system for locating and identifying defects on surfaced hardwood lumber. Unfortunately, until September of 1988 little research had gone into developing methods for analyzing rough lumber. This task is arguably more complex than the analysis of surfaced lumber. The prime motivation for developing such a s...

Materials and methods The sample included 90 male participants (64 of which completed follow-up) and seven counselor participants (i.e., four females and three males) from communitybased treatment in a Midwestern metropolitan area. Hierarchical linear modeling was conducted to examine the influence of victimization and violence history, psychiatric disorders (i.e., anxiety, depression), social ...

Investigations of individual differences have become increasingly important in the cognitive neuroscience of executive control. For instance, individual variation in lateral prefrontal cortex function (and that of associated regions) has recently been used to identify contributions of executive control processes to a number of domains, including working memory capacity, anxiety, reward/motivati...

Our course project for CS395T has made substantial progress since the project proposal was submitted. The first phase, which consists of implementing the communication protocols and algorithms, is nearly complete, and work on the second phase, which consists of implementing and running the classifiers, is about to begin. This report details the progress we have made, the challenges we have face...

Progress in decision support systems comes in a variety of forms. These include increased understanding of the organizational consequences of machine-mediated decision making, improved knowledge regarding how to implement DSSs (decision support systems), advances in techniques for managing and maintaining DSSs, and improvements in DSS technology that result in enhanced functionality or reductio...