The continuous urbanization forces city planners to be more creative and supported by approaches that enable an abstract perspective on the complex reality. Metropolitan cities have concrete plans to transform districts or the whole city towards a ‘Smart City’. Emerging technologies and the need to process data of millions of sensors raise challenges for city planners. This paper reports on exp...

Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interfa Education, School of Chemistry and Enviro China. E-mail: [email protected]; Fax: +8 Science and Technology on Advanced Com Aeronautical Materials, AVIC Composites T China Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Me School of Biological Science and Medical E P. R. China † Electronic supplementary information comments relevant to but not central to experime...

1 Collective Cognition: Exploring the Dynamics of Belief Propagation and Collective Problem Solving in Multi-Agent Systems Paul R. Smart, Trung Dong Huynh, Dave Braines, Katia Sycara and Nigel R. Shadbolt School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK. Emerging Technology Services, IBM United Kingdom Ltd, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK R...

In the article “The Availability of Competitive Foods and Beverages to Middle School Students in Appalachian Virginia Before Implementation of the 2014 Smart Snacks in School Standards,” the author made an error in calculating the order of data presented in Table 2. Changes do not affect study results. Numbers changed in all columns and rows of Table 2. In addition, changes were made to the text.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN MIND 37 brilliant student, Jonathan sailed through grade school. He completed his assignments easily and routinely earned As. Jonathan puzzled over why some of his classmates struggled, and his parents told him he had a special gift. In the seventh grade, however, Jonathan suddenly lost interest in school, refusing to do homework or study for tests. As a consequence, his gra...

Excessive electronic screen-based activities have been found to be associated with negative outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalences and patterns of smart device activities and the purposes and perceived outcomes related to smart device use, and the differences in patterns of smart device activities between adolescents who did and did not perceive these outcomes. The s...

OBJECTIVE In early 2010, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital began an interoperability project with the distinctive goal of developing a platform to enable medical applications to be written once and run unmodified across different healthcare IT systems. The project was called Substitutable Medical Applications and Reusable Technologies (SMART). METHODS We adopted contempora...