Archive for March, 2005

05-03-31

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Scrivlet: instant collaborative notes is close to what I imagined for Paperville, a collaborative site for peer-referring and -commenting on scientific articles. The  Paperville includes the following:

A crawler that monitors major paper outlets: PubMed, journal publishers, Citeseer, Google Scholar, etc. A new Paperville entry will be automatically created for each new article
each Paperville entry contains […]

">Scrivlet: no good for PaperVille

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05-03-31

Tags: Gmail: Help Center
Why would someone want to read email through RSS? I don’t know. 

 
How do I view Gmail messages with my aggregator?

Answer

return to Help Center

You can view Gmail messages in your […]

">RSS for your Gmail account

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05-03-30

Tags: IRCL vol 1.1 - Survey
Useful resource, poor use of stats and graphs. 

 
A Survey of 25 Years of Masters’and PhD Theses in Taiwan Relevant to Chinese Language and Linguistics
Chin-fa Lien, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu; Benjamin K Tsou, City University of Hong Kong; Samuel H N Cheung, […]

">Survey of Chinese linguistic dissertations in Taiwan

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05-03-30

Tags: Google Search: Sheldon White

… turns out 3 coverages on his death, from 3 different angles.
Sheldon White, Expert on Childhood, Dies at 76 New York Times - Mar 25, 2005 … Dr. Maher added: "Sheldon White was extremely sophisticated about the evaluation. He … Sheldon Harold White was born in Brooklyn. He […]

">Sheldon White died

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05-03-30

Tags: SourceForge.net: Project Documentation

emXML goes live! … well, it went live on SourceGorge a few months ago, but today I uploaded the first binary release under the name of emXMLDemo. Starting to upload some docs, too.

Why is it a demo?  
Posted By: garyfeng Date: 2005-03-29 22:57 Summary: demo released The […]

">SourceForge: emXML binary release - demo

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05-03-30 Discourse Processing: Special issue on Discourse Comprehension
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05-03-30

Tags:Teaching Norman Rockwell Museum
For no good reason. But it seems to fit in my lecture somewhere. Or maybe not. 

[update Apr 13, 2007: Original picture removed; Shown hereis a copy from art.com
Definitive Catalog number C441.

©1948 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN

Rockwell’s neighbors in Arlington, Vermont modeled […]

">Norman Rockwell: The Gossips

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05-03-29 IGEL 2004 Debate: on Meir Sternberg’s “Perspectives on Three Decades of Cognitivist Efforts”
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05-03-29

Tags: March 2005, pp. 489-497: Braun

Via http://www.chriscorrea.com/
A "Naive Test Theory" should be part of our understanding of how children learn and perform in school. This inspired me to fantasize a "naive theory of reading."
Imagine asking the following questions to a 3rd grader, or even a kindergartener, who is not a reader yet.

How do […]

">If there is a Naive Theory of Testing, why not a Naive Theory of Reading?

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05-03-29

Tags: Toshiba : Press Releases 29 March, 2005

What’s coming on the horizon. 
 
 
 
TOKYO — Toshiba Corporation today announced a breakthrough in lithium-ion batteries that makes long recharge times a thing of the past. The company’s new battery can recharge 80% of a battery’s energy capacity in only one minute, approximately 60 times faster than the typical lithium-ion […]

">Toshiba : charge in 1 minute

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05-03-28

Tags: The New York Times > New York Region > For Scientists of All Ages, Mixed Thoughts on a T. Rex in the Flesh

NYT has an interesting piece on how children in the American Museum of Natural History think about the recent discovery of soft tissues in a T-Rex. I was thinking how a typical psychology […]

">For Scientists of All Ages, Mixed Thoughts on a T. Rex in the Flesh

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05-03-28

Tags: The New York Times > Education > Income Gaps Found Among the College-Educated
I am surprised that nobody suggested that (a) they hold different jobs, or (b) there is self-selection because of differential college graduation rate and stay-at-home percentage.   

March 28, 2005
Income Gaps Found Among the College-Educated
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">NYT: Income Gaps Found Among the College-Educated

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05-03-27

Tags: SSR has some interesting papers this year, but Duke’s e-access is 1 issue behind. Remember to come back and get the issue 2. 

 
Introduction to Volume 9

 
Frank Manis

 
Scientific Studies of Reading, Vol. 9, No. 1: 1-2.Citation | Printable PDF (20 KB) | PDF with links (20 KB)

 
Correlates of Korean Hangul […]

">Scientific Studies of Reading: 2005 Vol 9 (1 & 2)

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05-03-27

Tags: TikiForge.org - The best place for TikiWiki hosting! : HomePage

Tikiwiki has not been updated for a few months now. The 1.9 version once talked about is nowhere to see, leaving the redeye 1.85 bug fix version on the main page.
Meanwhile, a few spin offs look interesting, although they are not being actively developed as much […]

">TikiForge: Tiki2 and tikiLight

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05-03-27

Tags: Full Duke Catalog - Full View of Record

Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children
Edited by Robert W. Mitchell
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond

 
View list of contributors…

Hardback
 (ISBN-10: 0521770300 | ISBN-13: 9780521770309)

For price and ordering options, inspection copy requests, and reading lists please select:
UK | North America | Australia & […]

">Pretending and imagination in animals and children

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05-03-27 Giuseppe Cossu - Dept. of Neuroscience Sect. of Physiology: Parma (I)
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05-03-27

Tags: SpringerLink - Article

This older paper by Giuseppe Cossu argues for the existense of a "metaphonological parser" module that is responsible for reading acquisition.  A major rationale is that learning to read "a transparent orthography" is too fast and too easy for unconstrained learning.
How did they define unconstrained learning? There are dumb learning algorithm and […]

">Cossu 1999: Biological constraints on literacy acquisition

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05-03-25

Tags: New York Post reports: 
City Department of Education booklets designed to train teachers how to prepare students for math tests are riddled with incorrect answers, grammatical errors and at least one glaring spelling mistake.

Perhaps the most embarrassing error is on the cover of the booklet for the fourth grade — make that the "forth […]

">Forth grade mis-math
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05-03-25

Tags: Google News can be personalized to display relevant news on a particular keyword. My watch "eye movements" is typically pretty quiet, but not today.
The case of Terri Schiavo managed to show up in that category.
here
Terri Schiavo is not handicapped or disabled in any reasonable meaning of that term. She does not suffer […]

">Terri Schiavo and Eye Movements
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05-03-25

Tags: ScienceDirect - Brain and Language : Evidence of a highly specific relationship between rapid automatic naming of digits and text-reading speed How do we know when we don’t understand? Standards for evaluating text comprehension
Robert Savagea, , and Norah Fredericksonb 
doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.09.005
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">ScienceDirect - Brain and Language : Evidence of a highly specific relationship between rapid automatic naming of digits and text-reading speed
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