How well can doctors and nurses really predict the outcomes of their ICU patients? Scott Halpern from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, discusses how he and his colleagues explored the accuracy of ICU physicians and nurses in predicting the health outcomes of their patients. Their work is details in the recent article “Discriminative Accuracy of Physician and Nurse Predictions for Survival and Functional Outcomes 6 Months After an ICU Admission,” published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in May 2017.

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Article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2627988

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2: Accuracy of Health Outcome Predictions – Scott Halpern

Can stereotypes about Christians really limit who pursues science? Kim Rios from Ohio University discusses how self-concepts and group identities may change how we look at the role of religion in science. Kim tells the stories behind her article “Negative Stereotypes Cause Christians to Underperform in and Disidentify With Science.” She co-authored the article with Zhen Cheng, Rebecca Totton and Azim Shariff, which was published in the July 2015 issue of Social Psychological and Personality Science.

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Article: http://sharifflab.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2015/08/Rios-Cheng-Trotton-Shariff-2015.pdf

3: Christians and Science – Kim Rios

A picture may be worth 1000 words, but can we also teach computers to create stories from the stories that lie inside our images?  Devi Parikh of Georgia Tech’s school of interactive computing discusses her work training computers to determine the semantic meaning within images. Devi talks about the stories behind her article “Bringing Semantics Into Focus Using Visual Abstraction,” which she co-authored with Larry Zitnick in 2013.

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Article: www.cc.gatech.edu/~parikh/Publications/ZitnickParikh_CVPR_2013_clipart.pdf

4: Semantic Meaning in Images – Devi Parikh

Many people hear voices that aren’t really there. It drives some to seek psychiatric treatment, but others are able to make use of it in healthy ways. Al Powers and Phil Corlett from Yale University talk about their research into the similarities and differences between these two groups, and what the rest of us can learn from their experiences. They tell their stories behind developing their article “Pavlovian conditioning–induced hallucinations result from overweighting of perceptual priors,” which they co-authored with Chris Mathys, published in the August 2017 issue of the journal Science.

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Article: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6351/596