During his PhD years, Alf Zimmer worked on fundamental research in episodic memory, cumulating in his dissertation on the creation of order in human memory (Zimmer, 1973). Since then he kept up this interest in the field, although his focus shifted a bit from more fundamental to more applied issues in memory research. In particular, Alf Zimmer became interested in research on eyewitness testimo...

English has a convoluted relationship between its pronunciation and spelling, which obscures phonological structure for early literacy learners. This implications software, particularly open-ended, child-driven designs. A tempting way to bypass this issue is use manipulables (blocks) that are directly tied phonemes. However, creating phoneme-based blocks leads two design challenges: (a) how rep...

electrophoresis Carlos E. Medina-De la Garza*, Marisela Garcı́a-Hernández and Marı́a de los Ángeles Castro-Corona Immunology Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico; Center for Research and Development in Health Sciences (CIDICS), Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico; Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Department, School of Medicine,...

Topkara, Umut Ph.D., Purdue University, August, 2007. Information Security Applications of Natural Language Processing Techniques . Major Professor: Mikhail J. Atallah. In this thesis we investigate applications of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to information security problems. We present our results in this direction for two important areas: password authentication, and informat...

BACKGROUND Upper abdominal sonography can help physicians to confirm the diagnosis of various hepatobiliary diseases. Teaching sonography skills to medical students is important because it may enhance their level of knowledge and overall development during their gastroenterology section rotation. Sonographic imaging is abstract and students can be easily confused when scanning the abdominal str...

Due to the latest developments in communication, computing, and storage technologies , multimedia services and applications are being deployed for various applications such as entertainment, health care, smart homes, security and surveillance, and intelligent environments. The special issue focuses on research challenges and issues related to multimedia applications. Scheibe et al. in their pap...

BACKGROUND We tested melodic auditory alarms recommended in the IEC 60601-1-8 standard for medical electrical equipment for ease of learning and discrimination, and for effectiveness during a timeshared task. METHODS Twenty-two critical care nurses learned the IEC 60601-1-8 melodic alarms over two training sessions more than a week apart, with or without mnemonics suggested in the standard. S...