- Oct 2015
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Open Research MOOC
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- Sep 2015
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courses.edx.org courses.edx.org
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Real Time Questions for Emiliana Simon-Thomas and Barbara Fredrickson
Takeaways:
Frequency of (e.g. minor) positive emotions more important than the intensity of positive emotions.
Different cultures emphasize different positive emotions e.g serenity in the east vs enthusiasm in the west; as well as sources (e.g. "i'm fitting in!" vs "i'm standing out!").
Having lots of connections not as important as having one or two meaningful interactions (confidants).
Introverts still benefit from interaction, but need to regain energy by being alone.
After reporting on emotions at the end of the day, asking oneself about what 3 longest social interactions of the day were, and how close and in-tune you felt with people, can actually drive positive emotions and measures of health upward.
Prioritizing positivity is highly effective.
Resonance in emotions while conversing can occur, and also can induce physiological mirroring like oxytocin patterns being similar.
Positive emotions give you a big picture and allow for creative thinking, but a neutral or negative state is better for critical analysis. Luckily most normal people use both at different times.
Barbara is currently researching if increasing positivity increases the occurrence of other positive behaviors (e.g. fitness, health).
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- Aug 2015
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blogs.nature.com blogs.nature.com
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data deposition is limited to researchers working at the same institution,
Not necessarily. For many institutions, as long as one of the researchers is affiliated, the data can be deposited
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We know this because there are societies where a lot more of this money is taken from the most fortunate, and it results pretty straightforwardly in less cruelty for the least fortunate.
Anyone know the scenario he's citing here?
I'd love to read more.
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- Jul 2015
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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I have asked this question all my life. I have sought the answer through my reading and writings, through the music of my youth, through arguments with your grandfather, with your mother. I have searched for answers in nationalist myth, in classrooms, out on the streets, and on other continents. The question is unanswerable, which is not to say futile.
(I know this is an aside... but maybe it isn't.) Just in case anybody needed a definition of "inquiry," these sentences would do just fine. I know it can seem like too much to ask of youth, but I think we can find ways to help them to find the question they have been asking all of their lives, just like Coates's question here: "unanswerable, which is not to say futile." How different that is from finding a "researchable question."
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- Jun 2015
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www.mattblodgett.com www.mattblodgett.com
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Science says we're full of it. Listening to music hurts our ability to recall other stimuli, and any pop song -- loud or soft -- reduces overall performance for both extraverts and introverts. A Taiwanese study linked music with lyrics to lower scores on concentration tests for college students, and other research have shown music with words scrambles our brains' verbal-processing skills. "As silence had the best overall performance it would still be advisable that people work in silence," one report dryly concluded. If headphones are so bad for productivity, why do so many people at work have headphones? That brings us to a psychological answer: There is evidence that music relaxes our muscles, improves our mood, and can even moderately reduce blood pressure, heart rate, and anxiety. What music steals in acute concentration, it returns to us in the form of good vibes.
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ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com
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Email address
- Email address and name fields need to be longer.
- Is it clear that we need one or more of email and phone?
Do we actually ever need both? If not, we could just ask "How would you like us to contact you?" And then show the relevant field with progressive disclosure.
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ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com
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Mobile (out and about)
One users gaze went back up to the 'Select all that apply' text at this point. We were able to ask him about this and he confirmed that he wanted to check whether he was supposed to be selecting multiple options or not.
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ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com
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Desktop computer
In this and other research we've observed that some users continue to click on the control rather than the grey box.
We tested an alternate design alongside this one, with larger controls. The users (all high computer confidence) were very slightly faster at clicking the controls (as per Fitts Law).
Equivalent testing on GOV.UK Verify with low confidence users shows the speed difference is much more pronounced.
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devices
One user wasn't sure what 'counts' as a device
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ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com
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Back to the previous question. Question 1 of 16
In eye-tracking 0/4 users looked at this page element.
However, it may have value for users who need to refer to the page via some other channel (eg, over the phone).
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ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com ur-panel-prototype.herokuapp.com
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Find out more about what's involved
0/4 users clicked on this
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- May 2015
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www.corestandards.org www.corestandards.org
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Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources,
Students using an annotation application like hypothes.is can literally map their research on a topic in tagged annotations on sources from across the Internet.
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- Apr 2015
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www.imrussia.org www.imrussia.org
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Why is it that Putin has no problem getting his message out? The reason, of course, is that most of what Russians see and hear is Putin’s point of view and Putin’s point of view only.
Although a blant exaggaration, it's well said
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- Dec 2014
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Correction, the link location for Unspeakableness has changed to http://peiyinglin.net/unspeakableness.html
More details accessible here: http://unspeakableness.net/
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blogs.hu-berlin.de blogs.hu-berlin.de
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looped (oder: loopable) research
Es wäre an dieser Stelle zu klären, wie sich die Idee der looped research zum Gedanken einer 'looped scholarship' (vgl. Über Digital Humanities, Human Computing und Looped Scholarship. Eine Notiz./ LIBREAS.Tumblr) verhält.
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- Sep 2014
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www.foreignpolicy.com www.foreignpolicy.com
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Even though everyone knows Israel has the bomb, if you have a clearance and want to keep it, stick to discussing Israel's stockpile of strategic kumquats.
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- Feb 2014
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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DELETE
what does that mean?
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- Jan 2014
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www.clfs.umd.edu www.clfs.umd.edu
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NSF Advances in Biological Informatics: "Informatics tools for population-level animal movements." with T. Mueller, P. Leimgruber, A. Royle, and J. Calabrese. Thomas Mueller, an Assistant Research Scientist in my lab, leads this project. Also on this grant, postdoc Chris Fleming is investigating theoretical aspects of animal foraging and statistical issues associated with empirical data on animal movements. This project is developing innovative data management and analysis tools that will allow scientists and conservation managers to use animal relocation and tracking data to study movement processes at the population-level, focusing on the interrelationship of multiple moving individuals. We are developing and testing these new tools using datasets on Mongolian gazelles, whooping cranes, and blacktip sharks. More information is available on the Movement Dynamics Homepage.
Movement Dynamics Homepage: http://www.clfs.umd.edu/biology/faganlab/movement/
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www.clfs.umd.edu www.clfs.umd.edu
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My project seeks to develop computer models that simulate and link behavioral movement mechanisms which can be either based on memory, perceptual cues or triggered by environmental factors. It explores their efficiency under different scenarios of resource distributions across time and space. Finally it tries to integrate empirical data on resource distributions as well as movements of moving animals, such as satellite data on primary productivity and satellite tracking data of Mongolian gazelles.
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about.jstor.org about.jstor.org
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We regularly provide scholars with access to content for this purpose. Our Data for Research site (http://dfr.jstor.org)
The access to this is exceedingly slow. Note that it is still in beta.
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m.chronicle.com m.chronicle.com
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The academic publisher Elsevier has contributed to many U.S. Congressional representatives, pushing the Elsevier-supported Research Works Act, which among other things would have forbidden any effort by any federal agency to ensure taxpayer access to work financed by the federal government without permission of the publisher.
What other legislation has Elsevier pushed?
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blogs.hbr.org blogs.hbr.org
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research by Adam Grant and Francesca Gino has shown that saying thank you not only results in reciprocal generosity — where the thanked person is more likely to help the thanker — but stimulates prosocial behavior in general. In other words, saying “thanks” increases the likelihood your employee will not only help you, but help someone else.
Reciprocal generosity... keystone habits
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- Oct 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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It is a remark constantly made by some that an orator must be skilled in all arts if he is to speak upon all subjects. I might reply to this in the words of Cicero, in whom I find this passage: "In my opinion, no man can become a thoroughly accomplished orator unless he shall have attained a knowledge of every subject of importance and of all the liberal arts," but for my argument, it is sufficient that an orator be acquainted with the subject on which he has to speak.
So the orator does not have to have mastery over that which he speaks, but have thoroughly researched it.
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