The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors [3] predicts chip complexities by the end of this decade silicon of around 1 billion transistors integrated on a single piece of silicon. It will open new frontiers in terms of applications in areas/devices ranging from security systems (e.g. video surveillance), control systems (e.g. automotive control), individual health systems (e.g. he...

Healthcare consumers need to find, comprehend, and interpret health information before making informed decisions. Recent work by others and our own work suggest that mis-matches in representations of health information used by consumers and professionals occur at different levels of knowledge representation, such as terminology (i.e., form or surface structure and concept or meaning) and semant...

This paper describes a method for retrieving the bidirectional reflectance factor (BRF) of land-surface areas, using a small consumer camera on board an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and introducing an advanced calibration routine. Images with varying view directions were taken of snow cover using the UAV. The vignetting effect was corrected from the images, and reflectance factor images were c...

Sterelny et al. (1996) and Maynard Smith (2000) were the first to argue that genetic information should be understood in terms of teleofunctions, leading to a sense in which genes carry semantic information, with conditions of correctness or satisfaction. In Shea (2007a) I argued that a modified teleosemantic account could be sustained in the face of various objections to these views. The accou...

This paper analyzes regulatory intervention when firms exploit consumers who are myopic in their decision making. As shown by Gabaix and Laibson (2006), a potential equilibrium price strategy of firms involves excessively high-priced add-ons and shrouding of add-on prices, which leads to a social welfare loss and consumer protection problems. Our model introduces a price discrimination equilibr...

Do consumers' perceptions of product quality differ from measures of objective quality? This is an extremely important question for retailers to answer as they develop or alter their marketing strategies. Consumers may view products of equal quality quite differently. That perceived quality, in turn, would affect their purchase behavior. The general goal of this research was to determine if con...

Conventional 2D video production provides a fixed-view reproduction of a recorded event in which a director defines every moment to be viewed. Multiple camera studio systems are now being developed to capture real-world events from multiple viewpoints to replay the event in 3D as a freeviewpoint video. Free-viewpoint video provides the consumer the flexibility to interact with a scene by changi...

Two hundred and fifty-nine men and women aged 20-45 years who did not respond to an offer from their general practitioner for a health check were interviewed at home to explore the reasons for non-response. There was no support for the view that the invitation aroused anxiety or that the administrative arrangements had been a barrier to acceptance. Many subjects were not really interested (44%)...

A latent class model for identifying classes of subjects in paired comparison choice experiments is developed. The model simultaneously estimates a probabilistic classification of subjects and the logit models’ coefficients relating characteristics of objects to choices for each respective group among two alternatives in paired comparison experiments. A modest Monte Car10 analysis of algorithm ...

Patients often have difficulty in understanding medical concepts and vocabulary in their Discharge Summaries. We explore automatic hyper-linking to online resources for difficult terms as a means of making the content more comprehensible for patients. We use the Consumer Health Vocabulary (CHV) as a resource for scoring the difficulty of terms and to provide the most consumerfriendly synonyms. ...