Archive for September, 2007
07-09-13
Tags:Linguistics Research XI International Congress For The Study of Child Language (IASCL)
Welcome to the IASCL 2008 Conference.
University of Edinburgh, Monday 28th July to Friday 1st August 2008.
These dates immediately precede the annual Edinburgh International Festival, which usually begins in the second week of August and lasts […]
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07-09-12
Tags:Computing Paperville psychology statistics This is the rationale for using SEM to model fMRI data, because […]
Amos Storkey (University of Edinburgh) published a paper this year that elucidates the relation between SEM and Gaussian Dynamic Baysian Networks, or Kalman Filters. Concise, but this is the clearest explanation I have seen so far:
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07-09-11
Tags:psychology Research Teaching Reviewing a manuscript using Structural Equational Modeling, I was reminded an old idea that I haven’t revisited for a long while. The Nomological Network The nomological network is an idea that was developed by Lee Cronbach and Paul Meehl in 1955 (Cronbach, L. and Meehl, P. (1955). Construct validity in […]
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07-09-10
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Neal Conan made a string of speech errors today as he began hosting the Petraeus/Crocker hearing on NPR. The troubles began with calling the American troop "surge" a "seige", which is not a bad depiction of the desperation of the Iraq situation. The irony, though, is who is under seige by whose troops.
Speech errors […]
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07-09-08
Tags:Computing Research Watch List zotero This is as cool as it gets when you play with bibliographic information. Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool » Blog Archive » Visualize Your Zotero Collections in Timelines
The other day I had a scarry experience — now that most of my references are on Zotero, it […]
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07-09-08
Tags:Computing Education literacy Teaching International Literacy Day - 8 September. Yes. It’s today, gone mostly unnoticed. International Literacy Day
8 September
Literacy is a cause for celebration since there are now close to four billion literate people in the world.
In its resolution A/RES/56/116, the General Assembly proclaimed […]
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07-09-08
Tags:Computing google Watch List
Google’s new toy, one that can be really useful: Calendar Gadgets
It comes with a wizard to add existing gadgets to your calendar — provided that the gadget actually updates its content everyday, I guess.
I tried to add the iGoogle "to-do" gadget to my calendar. It shows up on Today, […]
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07-09-06
Tags:Linguistics Paperville psychology Research statistics The paper itself is short, […]
Bob McMurray will be visiting next Tuesday, and I look forward to meeting with him. Am reading his latest paper on Sciense: Defusing the Childhood Vocabulary Explosion — McMurray 317 (5838): 631 — Science. Bob also has a webpage dedicated to the paper.
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07-09-06
Tags:Computing google Ok, first comes a financial disclosure.
I have been running Google Ads on this blog for about 3 months, and so far I have amassed about $50. (Thanks you all for those clickings, and please continue clicking away). My goal was to get enough for an myPod. I was happy that we […]
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07-09-06
Tags:Education This is a clear case where the copyright law is good for nobody. [by the way, is wikipedia down today?] ERIC Microfiche Digitization Project
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
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07-09-04
Tags:Paperville Unimpressed by the time line of human histroy put up on the website for the book The Alphabet Vs The Goddess | by Leonard Shlain. Example: Buddha becomes enlightened in India.
2,500 years ago
Buddha, though literate, writes nothing down. […]
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07-09-04
Tags:Research Don’t know yet if I will go to:
ICP Congress 2008: XXIX International Congress of Psychology
The Final Announcement and Call for Abstracts of ICP 2008 has been published. Please download the Final Announcement here.
Online Registration has started. Please register here.Please download the Registration Form here
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07-09-01
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Picasa Web Albums - Gary - 100 Jahre
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