Archive for October, 2005
05-10-31
Tags: Exclusive hadronic […]
Phys. Rev. D 50, 43 (1994): Alam et al. - Exclusive hadronic B decays… has the longest list of authors I’ve ever seen. It happens to be on the front page of CiteULike today. I have no intention of answering the question I posted in the title …
Phys. Rev. D 50, 43–68 (1994)
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05-10-31
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SR Research has just released their newest model of EyeLink system — the EyeLink 1000.
According to the website, the sampling rate is is 1000Hz, with guaranteed timing of samples. The sampling delay — time from image being captured by the camera to eye coordinates becoming available to the computer — is 2ms, which is […]
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05-10-30
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As a recent example of the politics of writing, Bill Poser wrote at Language Log: Better Not Use Q and W
A Turkish court has fined 20 Kurds 100 lira (US$74) for holding up placards at a New Year’s celebration containing the letters Q and W according to a Reuters report. These letters […]
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05-10-29
Tags: Morris Goldsmith More publications:
Morris Goldsmith contrasts two approaches of assessing memory and recall — quantity-oriented vs. acuracy-oriented approaches. My favorite title: Memory as something that can be counted versus memory as something that can be counted on
Koriat, A., & Goldsmith, M. (1994). Memory in naturalistic and laboratory contexts: Distinguishing the accuracy-oriented and quantity-oriented approaches to memory assessment. Journal […]
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05-10-26
Tags: What it does is that it grabs the title and other info from Amazon, and post a stealth request to a Wake Library XMLRPC site to see if they have the […]
Amazon.com Wake County Library Lookup by Josh Staiger is a GreaseMonkey script developed by Josh Staiger.
Download version 0.1 of Sept. 10, 2005
Screenshots
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05-10-26
Tags:Education NAEP NCLB Teaching New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Diane Ravitch: Fed test scores show state grade inflation is real By DIANE RAVITCH
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05-10-23
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This is only a reminder for myself. LiveScience is a great source of brief science articles (and pictures).
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05-10-22
Tags:Education OddsnEnds reading reading war Teaching whole language
"Am I still a psycholinguist?" self-questioning Janet C. Richards, Professor of Literacy, University of Southern Mississippi, in an article on Phonics Bulletin, publication of the IRA’s phonics group.
Confessions of […]
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05-10-22
Tags:Education OddsnEnds phonics
I blogged about the Special Interest Group (SIG) on Phonics at International Reading Association. The group and their publications are still alive and well: IRA’s Phonics Bulletin
Among many things they did there was this:
“Phonicator” term submitted to the Oxford English Dictionary
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05-10-22
Tags: NPR : At Home with Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
Oh, he’s just a wonderful person. What I liked the best from the interview was the part when he said something like "I am doing the best I can. If somebody out there thinks I can do better, you are wrong."
Trying to find the audio on NPR […]
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05-10-22
Tags:Education OddsnEnds Profiles Oh, no! Not another reading guru!
I was washing dishes as I listened to Weekend America on WUNC, when the topic suddenly shifted from baseball to reading.
Reading scores are low, the title says. Big news, I thought. But let’s hear what the guest has to say. The guest was Pat Wyman, […]
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05-10-21
Tags:Education literacy poverty Research
Chris Correa took a look at the relationship between states’ poverty rate and literacy performance in recent NAEP studies. The analyses can’t be simpler — simple linear regressions with a single dependent variable (NAEP scores) and a single independent variable (rather than using S&P poverty rates, he used NCCP’s […]
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05-10-21
Tags: HowNet is a database/network of semantic relationships among Chinese words. Conceptually it’s similar to WordNet of English, but the author claims they differ substantially. For one thing, HowNet is NOT free. Well, they are making words A-D free for download, as a teaser.
WordNet has evolved into a global network now. A Chinese version by […]
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(Computing, Linguistics) | 0
05-10-20
Tags: Psychological Science Agenda October 2005 Quantitative Training in Psychology is Deteriorating: Traditional Methodologists, Mathematical Psychologists, and Psychology Face a Challenge
by James T. Townsend, President Emeritus, Society for Mathematical Psychology, Richard Golden, Secretary Treasurer, Society for Mathematical Psychology Thomas Wallsten, Editor Emeritus, Journal of Mathematical Psychology
The scientific community of APA, and psychology […]
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05-10-20
Tags: Sometimes tables are necessary to present a large amount of data. Nicely designed websites allow you to sort data by columns, but often that involves retrieving data from the database on the server end and a total refreshing of the page. Not the following example, where they used Javascript to sort tables on the fly […]
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05-10-19
Tags: Wikiwyg: DESCRIPTION
Wikiwyg is a Javascript library that can be easily integrated into any wiki or blog software. It offers the user multiple ways to edit/view a piece of content:
* Wysiwyg mode - Simple, HTML, Design Mode editing. […]
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05-10-19
Tags: Michele Miozzo’s Language Lab has some new papers on phonological processes in reading and writing: Miozzo, M., Jacobs, M., & Singer, N. W. S. (in press). The representation of homophones: evidence from anomia. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Caccappolo-van Vliet, E., Miozzo, M., & Stern (in press). Phonological dyslexia: a test case for reading models. Psychological […]
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05-10-15
Tags:Education Greek Linguistics writing writing system This will be the last post on Greek, at least for today (5 minutes before 0:00… now 4 minutes . A picture of a school scene of 480 B.C. The man in the middle is dictating to a youth (cut off) who is writing on […]
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05-10-13
Tags: What is a letter? I looked it up on OED: Oxford English Dictionary letter, n.1 c1250 a1240 a1225
I. An alphabetic character. 1. a. A character or mark designed to represent one of the elementary sounds used in speech; one of the symbols that compose the alphabet.
c1391 c1375 c1300
1430- 40 […]
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05-10-12
Tags: Suzanne’s post today Abecedaria: Classification of Consonants ends with a quote from Aristotle (Poetics 1456b): "A letter is an indivisible sound, not every such sound but one of which an intelligible sound can be formed. Animals utter indivisible sounds but none that I should call a letter(στοιχειον). Such sounds may be subdivided into vowel, semi-vowel and […]
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