Archive for November, 2006
06-11-30
Tags:dyslexia Education policy Teaching With the 2004 IDEA reauthorization, the IQ-reading discrepancy is no longer a criterion for dyslexia/reading disability. This is what Linda Siegle and others have advocated for over a decade.
What, then, is the diagnostic criterion now?
(A) In general.–Notwithstanding section 607(b), when determining whether a child has a specific learning […]
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06-11-29
Tags:autism OddsnEnds Paperville psychology Research theory of mind A discussion about Theory of Mind : From an Autistic Perspective J. Blackburn, K. Gottschewski, Elsa George, and Niki L, "A discussion about Theory of Mind : From an Autistic Perspective," Proceedings of Autism Europe’s 6th International Congress, Glasgow 19-21 May 2000, in […]
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(Research, Odds'n'Ends, Paperville, Psychology) | 1
06-11-28
Tags:Linguistics Paperville Teaching Language Defined. Edward Sapir. 1921. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech, available free at Bartleby.com. Edward Sapir (1884–1939)
In this classic intro to linguistics Sapir laid out some issues that still bother language researchers, particularly cognitive and cogneural scientists.
Are we evolved to speak? It’s interesting that Sapir sees walking as […]
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06-11-21
Tags:language Linguistics OddsnEnds writing system A biography of Panini, the great Indian grammatician and thinker, suggests that modern number systems, like grammar, came from the analysis of Sanskrit language.
Panini was a Sanskrit grammarian who gave a comprehensive and scientific theory of phonetics, phonology, and morphology. Sanskrit was the classical literary language of […]
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06-11-20
Tags:Computing vmware On Linux CentOS running on a VMware platform Installed ApacheFriends on Linux And Wordpress works like a […]
Moving from Windows to Linux:
Copy corresponding files from Windows directories
Dump Windows MySQL: mysqldump -u -p databasename >databasename.sql; copy files over
import it back to mysql on linux. mysql -h 127.0.0.1 databasename <databasename.sql
change application settings — such as URL, etc.
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06-11-16
Tags: Report: No Child Left Behind is out of step with special education Report: No Child Left Behind is out of step with special education
Survey reveals conflicts for school administrators
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE […]
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06-11-16
Tags:achievement gap Education NCLB Teaching NPR : The ‘Achievement Gap’ Gets Wider, Despite Changes
Education
The ‘Achievement Gap’ Gets Wider, Despite Changes
by Larry Abramson
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06-11-15
Tags:Computing Research
The Joy of Convolution is the best demo for convolution I’ve ever seen. On this little applet, you use your mouse to draw any functions you like, and drag them to see how they convolve.
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(Computing, Research) | 2
06-11-15
Tags:Computing matlab statistics
Here are two MatLab algorithms illustrating how convolution works. The first is a demo file, masconv
When the user gives the program two vectors (sequences) to be convolved, the program first initialize a temporary matrix of size having number of rows according to the length of the first vector and number of […]
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(Computing, Statstics) | 1
06-11-14
Tags:Computing dyslexia Research Teaching Coherent Motion Detection Toolkit — v2.1.0 (cut down) | Mike Whitney
Coherent Motion Detection Toolkit
Instructions | Explanation | Source | […]
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06-11-14
Tags:dyslexia Research Teaching
Dispatches - The Dyslexia Myth from Channel4.com is a programme aired in UK in 2005. While I am sympathetic to his view that dyslexia is an example of medicalization, I think the way he presented the issue is overly simplistic.
Introduction
As a current affairs producer, every story you tell […]
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06-11-13
Tags:Computing ica Research ICALAB for Signal Processing - MATLAB Toolbox for ICA, BSS and BSE ICALAB from RIKEN BSI implemented some 20 different ICA algorithms. It also allows one to blend signals and to play with different algorithms. Woud be good for testing algorithms.
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06-11-10
Tags:Research Here is an exaple of how SSVEP is done. I was surprised at the way they controlled the flicking frequency — it’s actually not frequency in the sine-wave sense (assumed by FFT) but discrete events (video frames onset) followed by no-event frames. FFT is clearly easier to compute, but it seems to be more appropriate […]
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06-11-09
Tags:EEG Profiles Research Ramesh Srinivasan trained in Electrical Engineering (B.S. U of Pennsylvania, 1989) and Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D., Tulane University, 1995) and received postdoctoral training in Psychology (Oregon, 1997) and Neurosciences (Neurosciences Institute, 1999). He is presently Associate Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. […]
Satellite Meeting, SFN 2006, Atlanta
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06-11-09
Tags:Education Teaching I got a letter from Pearson Education protesting against the May 2006 report from NCTQ
What Education Schools Aren’t Teaching About Reading–and What Elementary Teachers Aren’t Learning. In this groundbreaking report, NCTQ studied a large representative sampling of ed schools to find out what future elementary teachers are–and are not–learning about reading instruction. […]
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06-11-07
Tags:Computing flash Research BetaNews reportes that
Adobe Donates Flash Code to Mozilla
By Nate Mook, BetaNews
November 7, 2006, 1:30 PM
Adobe announced at the Web 2.0 conference on Tuesday that it was donating the scripting language engine […]
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(Computing, Research) | 0
06-11-05
Tags:Computing database firefox sql sqlite zotero Zotero uses the SQLite engine built-in in Firefox. It only allows access to the db from extensions, not from webpages. It’s driven by Javascript, whic seems to be how Zotero is written. The dB file is saved under Firefox’s profile directory, under zotero. It’s a […]
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06-11-03
Tags:Linguistics OddsnEnds Everybody knows that Beijing doesn’t like Bian, the so called "the so called president" of Taiwan. Still, they don’t have to go so far as to suggest that Bian is polygamous and that his name should be stripped of the status of a proper noun.
[Update: Ok, I think I get it… it’s supposed […]
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