Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance made news on several fronts in the past year. Many public health organizations, including the CDC, used terms such as "crisis", "catastrophic consequences", and "nightmare scenario" to highlight the rapid emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance. A report from the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, on the fifth anniversary of the publ...

Intelligent Agents are often developed for the purposes of mimicking the behavior of a person performing a task. These “Human Behavior Models” (HBMs) (Pew and Mavor 1998) are often used to perform complex tasks such as flying airplanes in simulation, interacting as non-playercharacters in games, participating in teammates in simulation-based training environments, etc. These models’ level of “h...

Originally from Germany, Sabine Petry received her Diploma (MSc) from Goethe University in Frankfurt and undertook her Master's thesis at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics. She then moved to the UK to pursue a PhD under the supervision of Venki Ramakrishnan at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. In 2008, Sabine started her postdoctoral work in the laboratory of Ron Vale a...

In the United States, 173 billion text messages were sent monthly by 293 million cell phone subscribers, according to mid-year 2010 data. Th at’s about 20 daily text messages per subscriber. According to the Pew Research Center, 82% of US adults are cell phone users and 72% of adult cell phone users send or receive text messages. Based on a Kaiser Family Foundation study, cell phone ownership i...

U.S. teens are spending substantial time on social networking sites (SNSs). Yet, only a few studies have documented teens’ privacy-protecting behaviors on SNSs. Using data of Facebook teen users and their parents in the U.S. from the Pew Internet’s Teens & Privacy Management Survey (N = 622), this study investigated the socialization agents of teens’ level of online privacy concern, and the rel...

The Internet has become an important and preferred source of health information. Although the literature has highlighted several key predictors that influence an individual's online health information seeking behavior, insufficient attention has been paid to the changes in the predictors' roles and effects over time. This study explores and compares the effects that specific predictors had on o...

In 2009, just 27% of American teens with mobile phones reported using their devices to access the internet. However, teens from lower income families and minority teens were significantly more likely to use their phones to go online. Together, these surprising trends suggest a potential narrowing of the digital divide, offering internet access to those without other means of going online. This ...

With the persistent deployment of ontological specifications in practice and the increasing size of the deployed ontologies, methodologies for ontology engineering are becoming more and more important. In particular, the specification of negative constraints is often neglected by the human expert, whereas they are crucial for increasing an ontology’s deductive potential. We propose a novel, arg...

With the persistent deployment of ontological specifications in practice and the increasing size of the deployed ontologies, methodologies for ontology engineering are becoming more and more important. In particular, the specification of negative constraints is often neglected by the human expert, whereas they are crucial for increasing an ontology’s deductive potential. We propose a novel, arg...

Abstract Why are highly educated people more supportive of international trade? Two competing explanations exist for this empirical finding. On the one hand, economic interest approach suggests that realize trade can benefit them economically. other ideational perspective argues relationship arises because cosmopolitan, and cosmopolitanism is positively related to support trade. To contribute d...