Archive for March, 2005
05-03-31
Tags: 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
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:
each Paperville entry contains […]
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05-03-31
Tags: Gmail: Help Center Answer return to Help Center You can view Gmail messages in your […]
Why would someone want to read email through RSS? I don’t know.
How do I view Gmail messages with my aggregator?
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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, […]
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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 […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Psychology, Education) | 0
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 […]
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(Computing, Research) | 0
05-03-30
Discourse Processing: Special issue on Discourse Comprehension
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05-03-30
Tags:Teaching Norman Rockwell Museum [update Apr 13, 2007: Original picture removed; Shown hereis a copy from art.com ©1948 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN Rockwell’s neighbors in Arlington, Vermont modeled […]
For no good reason. But it seems to fit in my lecture somewhere. Or maybe not.
Definitive Catalog number C441.
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(Teaching, Odds'n'Ends) | 2
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/ How do […]
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.
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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 […]
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(Computing, Odds'n'Ends, Watch List) | 1
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 […]
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(Teaching, Psychology, Education) | 0
05-03-28
Tags: The New York Times > Education > Income Gaps Found Among the College-Educated March 28, 2005
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.
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 […]
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(Research, Teaching, Paperville, Psychology) | 0
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 […]
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(Computing) | 0
05-03-27
Tags: Full Duke Catalog - Full View of Record Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children Hardback For price and ordering options, inspection copy requests, and reading lists please select:
Edited by Robert W. Mitchell
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond
View list of contributors…
(ISBN-10: 0521770300 | ISBN-13: 9780521770309)
UK | North America | Australia & […]
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05-03-27
Giuseppe Cossu - Dept. of Neuroscience Sect. of Physiology: Parma (I)
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(Profiles, Psychology) | 0
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 […]
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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.
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Perhaps the most embarrassing error is on the cover of the booklet for the fourth grade — make that the "forth […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Education) | 0
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 […]
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(Odds'n'Ends, Psychology) | 0
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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