Researchers in various areas, e.g. medicine, agriculture and environmental sciences, use biomedical data sources and tools to answer different research questions or to solve various tasks, for instance, in drug discovery or in research on the influence of environmental factors on human health and diseases. Due to the recent explosion of the amount of on-line accessible data and tools, finding t...

Since its inception just over a century ago, the field of tumor virology has provided insights into the causes for many cancers. Patrick Moore, director of the Cancer Virology Program at the University of Pittsburgh, is a leading contributor to the field, having codiscovered two of the seven known human cancer-causing viruses. In 1994, with wife and collaborator Yuan Chang, Moore identified Kap...

This paper discusses the potential role of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in providing compensatory education for disadvantaged children.

Michael A. Campitelli, MPH; Susan E. Bronskill, PhD; Laura C. Maclagan, MSc; Daniel Harris, Cecilia Cotton, Mina Tadrous, PharmD, Andrea Gruneir, David B. Hogan, MD; Colleen J. Maxwell, PhD

Acknowledgments: We thank N. Hogan for many helpful discussions. This project was

One thousand four hundred and fifty-eight business executives completed the two Hogan assessment measures: the Motives, Values and Preferences Inventory (MVPI) (an inventory of ten core occupational values), and the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) (a measure of seven super-factor traits). There were seven sex differences on the values which factored into three interpretable factors labelled S...

Thirty-eight noncounselor subjects were administered a sixty-four item questionnaire to measure empathy (Hogan Empathy Scale) just prior to instruction, and three months following regular practice ofTranscendental Meditation (TM). Encouraging but nonsignificant statistical results were obtainedfor empathy levels for this subject sampling. A second group of seventeen nonrandomized, noncounselor,...