Archive for May, 2004
04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www2.inf.ethz.ch/personal/gutc/lognormal/brochure.html Life is log-normal ! Science and art, life and statistics
Original Title: Life is log-normal !
The “Lognormal distributions across the science” paper sounds interesting.
Conclusions and outlook
The model (Fig. 1), a computer application of which is available now, fills a 100 years old gap of demonstrating the genesis of these skewed distributions. Their characterization in terms […]
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04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/apr/section1/apr166.htm#Derivation and Use of the Birnbaum-Saunders Model: Neural activity is initially 0 (no crack) it increases at each cycle (delta time) by a positive, iid random variable if the activity reaches a threshold a saccade […]
Original Title: 8.1.6.6. Fatigue life (Birnbaum-Saunders)
Again, the focus here is fixation duration distribution. For B-S model to apply we need to assume:
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04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/apr/section2/apr212.htm Less known is the […]
Original Title: 8.2.1.2. Extreme value argument
Weibull should NOT be an appropriate model for fixation duration because the “competing risk” model does not hold — it is not the case that there are many sources that affect the mechanism to hold fixations/release saccades and one that has the fastest effect wins.
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04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/apr/section2/apr213.htm
Original Title: 8.2.1.3. Multiplicative degradation argument
This an excerpt from “Engineering Statistical Handbook”, put forth online by NIST. Multiplicative degradation is the primary candidate for a stochastic mechanism that leads to a lognormal distribution. Kolmogorov´s (1941) argument sounds about right. However, we are looking at the expected failure time, rather than the size of […]
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04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www.mozilla.org/editor/midas-spec.html Enabling Rich Text Editing:
Original Title: Rich Text Editing Specification
Do you have to use iFrame to enable editing in Mozilla? That defeats the whole purpose of the StandardBrains editor.
Given a document, you can add the attribute “designMode” and set it to “on” to get an editable document. For example, in JavaScript, if you have […]
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04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/ htmlArea - Turn any <textarea> into a WYSIWYG editor Version 3.0 (beta) - IE 5.5+ (Windows)/Mozilla 1.3 (all OS) cross platform functionality.
Original Title: interactivetools.com : htmlArea
Midas of Mozilla emulates IE´s editing functions. Should take a look and make StandardBrains editor cross-platform as well.
htmlArea is a WYSIWYG editor replacement for any <textarea> field. Instead of […]
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04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www.readprint.com/ A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To […]
Original Title: Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print
Spotted by Kevin http://ruixue.cogsci.uiuc.edu/mt/snowtime/archives/000451.html. Looks like a good place to look for reading materials for my studies. No copyright issues.
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04-05-07
Tags: Original URL: http://www.genome.duke.edu/news/genomelife.htm
Original Title: GenomeLIFE
H. Willard openned his article in this months GenomeLife with an analogy of reading and genomics. Breaking the code, he argues, requires at least two things — (a) some hypotheses about how the symbolic system works and (b) mapping the new system to something known. Jean Francois Champollions eventual success decipherring of […]
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04-05-06
Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Availability/ingenta;jsessionid=4mgnt6ce57974.circus?unc=1041892729&targetId=1083872837690 http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=000000627690641&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=4&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1083873031&clientId=15020
Original Title: Ingenta: article availability
The cultural significance of reading instruction in ChinaHu, Y.Reading Teacher, 2004, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 632-639 INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION
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04-05-06
Tags: Original URL: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63304,00.html Give It Up: Info for Protection Associated Press 09:11 PM May. 02, 2004 PT
Original Title: Wired News: Give It Up: Info for Protection
For whatever motive, Smith´s call for a civilized debate should not go unanswered.
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,63304,00.html
NEW YORK — Derek V. Smith sees bad people lurking everywhere: terrorists, sexual predators, quack doctors, […]
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04-05-06
Tags: Original URL: http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Prinstein.html Mitchell J. Prinstein Associate Professor (Ph.D., 1997, University of Miami)Yale Peer Relations Lab Research Interests
Original Title: Mitchell J. Prinstein, Yale Psychology Faculty
My research examines cognitive and interpersonal models of depression, suicidality, and health risk behaviors (e.g., substance use, sexual risk behavior) among children and adolescents. This work is based on a developmental psychopathology […]
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04-05-05
Tags: Original URL: http://www.fa100.info/ Factor Analysis at 100
Original Title: FA100
Sounds like a good opportunity just around the corner. Talks I am interested in are listed below
May 13-15, 2004, UNC Chapel-Hill
In 1904 Charles Spearman published his seminal paper, “General Intelligence, Objectively Determined and Measured,” in the American Journal of Psychology [PDF version] [HTML version]. This paper outlined the […]
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04-05-04
Tags: Original URL: http://chasseur.usc.edu/html/index.php, or www.NeuroScholar.org Have you ever felt like this?
Original Title: NeuroScholar
A pretty neat Knowledge Management tool with graphs interface for neuroscience. Java-based, GNU (I think). It uses TouchGraph for it´s graph engine.
(c) Gary Larson, 1986.
… and if you´re a working neuroscientist, you probably have.
The scale of information overload in neuroscience is extreme. The […]
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04-05-04
Tags: Original URL: http://www.cemcentre.org/ebeuk/default.asp A Manifesto for Evidence-Based Education
Original Title: Evidence-Based Education UK
An essay on evidence-based education, cached here.
“Evidence-based” is the latest buzz-word in education. Before long, everything fashionable, desirable and Good will be “evidence-based”. We will have Evidence-Based Policy and Evidence-Based Teaching, Evidence-Based Training - who knows, maybe even Evidence-Based Inspection.
But “evidence-based” is more than just […]
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04-05-03
Tags: Original URL: http://sacklerinstitute.org/~mip2003/ Michael I. Posner
Original Title: Michael I. Posner
Sackler Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry Director Sackler Institute
B.S., 1957, University of Washington; Ph.D., 1962, University of Michigan
Contact Information
Research Interests: Development of Neural mechanisms and structures underlying selective attention. Brain changes during acquisition of high level skills.
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04-05-03
Tags: Original URL: http://sacklerinstitute.org/~brucemc/ Bruce McCandliss, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
Original Title: index.-backup.html
Dr. McCandliss is involved in the OECD Literacy Network. His 2003 paper with Harm et al on the NN model for reading remediation sounds very interesting.
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
1300 York Avenue, Box 140
New York, NY 10021
212-746-5837 […]
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04-05-03
Tags: Original URL: http://www.oecd.org/document/19/0,2340,en_2649_21762005_22267603_1_1_1_1,00.html Brain and Learning: Who´s Who in the Literacy Network THE CORE MEMBERS OF THE LITERACY NETWORK
Original Title: Brain and Learning: Who´s Who in the Literacy Network
The Literacy Network is co-ordinated with the OECD-CERI through the Sackler Institute in the USA.
Chairman: Michael Posner, University of Oregon, New York City, USAMain Scientific Advisor: Bruce McCandliss, Sackler Institute, New York City, USFacilitator Literacy […]
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04-05-03
Tags: Original URL: http://sacklerinstitute.org/cornell/literacynetwork/index.html First Literacy Network Meeting: Audio Clips and AbstractsDownload audio clips and abstracts from the First Literacy Network Meeting held in Brockton, Massachucetts, USA, January 2003. Literacy NetworkOECDBrockton, MA, USA1/29 - 1/31/2003 NOTE: SOME USERS WILL NEED TO RIGHT-CLICK + SAVE-TARGET-AS […]
Original Title: Literacy Network: OECD Brockton Meeting
Participants are pretty impressive. MP3 and abstracts available for download.
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04-05-03
Tags: Original URL: http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_14935397_1_1_1_1_1,00.html Second Literacy and Numeracy Network Meeting
Original Title: Brain and Learning: Department
This sounds like an interesting gathering. Some of the abstracts are attached.
02-Apr-2004
The Second Meeting of the Literacy and Numeracy Network was held from 1-3 March 2004, in El Escorial, Spain, with focus topics on: Cognition and Instruction in Early Literacy Development; Basic Processes […]
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04-05-03
Tags: Original URL: http://www.oecd.org/document/29/0,2340,en_2649_33925_31237469_1_1_1_1,00.html Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Evidence-based Policy Research Summary contents
Original Title: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Evidence-based Policy Research
Should keep an eye on this workshop.
Purpose
The project deals with the analysis and promotion among OECD countries of “evidence-based policy research”, as a vital component of the innovation and policy-making […]
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