Background: The effect of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) on the voice features in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is controversial. No study has evaluated the voice features of PD underwent STN-DBS by the acoustic, perceptual, and patient-based assessments comprehensively. Furthermore, there is no study to investigate prosodic features before and after DBS in PD. The curren...

The objectives of this study were to compare glucometer experience and attitudes toward counseling, monitoring, and screening for diabetes between two classes of graduating students at one dental school to determine if there were differences by experience and year of graduation. Dental students graduating in 2010 and 2013 completed a survey about their experience with use of a glucometer as wel...

A colleague heading a research group recently contacted me. The group had a piece of software that it was about to license out to a company. The software encapsulated the results of several years of work: some fancy algorithms for data manipulation. The company would take over the source code to maintain and evolve it. My colleague wanted to know what sort of “objectively testable guarantees” h...

Scheme is one of only a few languages with a concise specification and formal semantics. With such a foundation it should be easy to write portable code that, without modification, runs correctly on different Scheme implementations. Yet this goal has proved elusive – there are more than fifty Schemes and writing programs that are portable between even just a few of these implementations is tedi...

In this article, the scientific and technological goals of artificial intelligence, and a proposal of ten fundamental problems in AI research are discussed This article is an introduction to Scientific DataLink’s microfiche publication of the Yale AI technical reports In this context, examples of research conducted at the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project relating to each of the research pro...

Here is the conundrum: if you are reading this editorial, then I am preaching to the choir. You already are someone who presumably finds value in picking up a journal—spe-cifically this journal—to read at least some of its content. Intentionally, or perhaps inadvertently, you have wandered over to the Editorial page. Depending on how well I do with my first paragraph, you may continue reading, ...