Consider the following scenario: you are watching a movie in your living room. One of the supporting characters is played by someone who looks familiar, but you can’t quite put your finger on where ...

Clinicians must make diagnostic treatment decisions using a large body of probabilistic information and process this information under the pressure of time and workload. The pressure of this task is ...

If you’re an 80s person like me, heuristics might make you think of that British band that sang "Sweet Dreams are made of This." That’s Eurythmics, not heuristics! Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky ...

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Validation of a Cyclic Algorithm to Proxy Number of Lines of Systemic Cancer Therapy Using Administrative Data Robust institutional tumor banks depend on continuous sample curation or else subsequent ...

Marketers and advertisers who understand the importance of customer behavior and psychology consider heuristics (simple, efficient rules—mental shortcuts—that people use to form judgments and make ...

When something in your vicinity happens, you know right away if it is good or right. When the traffic light on a busy road is red, you know not to cross and when it is green you can cross, but still ...

Proteins and synthetic polymers that undergo aqueous phase transitions mediate self-assembly in nature and in man-made material systems. Yet little is known about how the phase behaviour of a protein ...

It is generally well-understood that antimalware programs—the software which detects computer viruses, worms, trojan horses and other threats to your system—work by scanning files using signatures ...