Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel’s groundbreaking book, Describing Inner Experience: Proponent Meets Skeptic, examines a research method called Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES). DES, which was developed by Hurlburt and collaborators, works roughly as follows. An investigator gives a subject a random beeper. During the day, as the subject hears a beep, she writes a description of her conscious exp...

OBJECTIVES To study crew sick leave aboard and medical sign-off during one year (2004) among crew on a passenger ship doing worldwide cruising. Methods - Patient data were registered continuously during the year and reviewed afterward. RESULTS There was an average of 612 crew members (22% women) aboard. There were 6378 recorded crew visits (=17.5 per day), 3705 of which directly involved the ...

Clustering categorical sequences is currently a difficult problem due to the lack of an efficient representation model for sequences. Unlike the existing models, which mainly focus on the fixed-length tuples representation, in this paper, a new representation model on the variablelength tuples is proposed. The variable-length tuples are obtained using a pruning method applied to delete the redu...

Mobile wireless video delivery is still challenging due to its limited bandwidth and dynamic channel status. In this paper, a novel approach named Dubbing Video Slides (DVS) is proposed to cope with the bandwidth limitation problem. Based on a statistical video content importance analysis, DVS method can dynamically select and transmit representative video frames which are relatively more impor...