In a recent article, Schlinger (2008) marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior (1957) by considering its impact on the field of behaviorism and research on verbal behavior. In the present article, we comment on Schlinger’s conclusions regarding the impact of the book and highlight the extensions and alternatives to Skinner’s account proposed by research on sti...

The caging of small molecules has revolutionized biological research by providing a means to regulate a wide range of processes. Here we report on a generic pharmacological method to cage proteins in a similar fashion. The present approach is of value in both fundamental and applied research, e.g. in tissue engineering.

The paper attempts a broad overview of the vast ®eld of stability of structures, including elastic and anelastic structures, static and dynamic response, linear and non-linear behavior, energy approach, thermodynamic aspects, creep stability and fracture or damage-induced instability. The importance of stability theory to various ®elds of engineering and applied science is pointed out and the h...

As the prevalence of computer-based technologies increases throughout society, so does the likelihood that older adults will be required to interact with them. Unfortunately, such systems often appear to older adults to be too hard to use and too hard to learn. We provide examples highlighting the opportunities available to behavioural science to affect training and system design through practi...

The recent accident at Three Mile Island has once again raised the issue of the social responsibilities of scientists. Many lay people believe that scientists pursue applications of their research, heedless of the effects of their discoveries upon society. Such people are quick to point out the undesirable by-products of applied science to support this generalization. They paint an image of sci...

UNLABELLED Since the introduction of the Atraumatic Restorative Treatment (ART) approach over twenty years ago, more than 190 research publications have appeared. The last research agenda defining research priorities for ART was published in 1999. The objective of the present work was to review existing research in the context of future research priorities for ART. MATERIAL AND METHODS An int...

Machine comprehension is an important NLP problem with a number of important applications. Particularly question answering has been attracting a lot of attention on the applied research area. This work explores a simple sequence attention architecture for question answering. In this work the Stanford Question and Answering Dataset (SQuAD) introduced by Rajpurkar et al. (2016) is employed.

Voting Power Indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body in which different members have different numbers of votes. Although this approach to the measurement of power, based on co-operative game theory, has been known for a long time its empirical application has been to some extent limited, in part by the difficulty of computing the indices when th...

It has been a great honor to represent you dur ing this last year, and it is a great challenge to stand before you now. Table I presents some of the multiple titles I have considered for this pre sentation over the last 10 months. I had a diffi cult time, in early August, when I had to select a final topic and fax my actual title to the Sci entific Program Chair, Bill Petri. I originally though...