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A New Semantic Similarity Based Measure For Assessing Research Publication’s Contribution
Citation analysis
Ever since the idea of using citations for research evaluation was introduced [Garfield,1955], citation analysis has received a lot of attention and many theories and measures based on citations have been produced.
A Practical Guide to Mindfulness (Tessa Watt)
Bring the mind back a hundred times
If your mind wanders from the breath a hundred times, just bring it back a hundred times. See if you can escort your awareness back to the breath with kindness and good humour. This is the practice: not keeping the mind fixed in one place, but bringing the mind back, over and…
The busy monkey mind
When you start to meditate, you may find it shocking how active your mind is. It flits from one thought to another, often without any obvious logic. It may feel like a monkey leaping from tree to tree. You may even think, ‘I was looking for calm, but when I started to meditate…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Top-down attention and the invisible gorilla
In cognitive science Kant and Nietzsche are mostly ignored and the view of the mind as representational prevails.51 The closest we might find to Kant’s idea is sometimes referred to as top-down and bottom-up processing. Top-down processing includes our expectations, our…
How attention filters out the gorilla
we can think of it like this: our top-down attention to our task somehow focuses our eye movements on the ball only. Even though the person in the gorilla suit passes through our field of view, our brain is not looking for a gorilla. Our visual cortex and visual system do not…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Executive function predicts success better than IQ
Welcome to the interesting world of impulse control. It is part of a suite of behaviors under the collective term “executive function.” Executive function controls planning, foresight, problem solving, and goal setting. It engages many parts of the brain, including a short-term…
Effort separates high from low performers
What separates high performers from low performers is not some divine spark. It is, the most recent findings suggest, a much more boring—but ultimately more controllable—factor. All other things being equal, it is effort. Good old-fashioned neural elbow grease. Deliberate…
TV damages toddlers' attention spans
TV also poisons attention spans and the ability to focus, a classic hallmark of executive function. For each additional hour of TV watched by a child under the age of 3, the likelihood of an attentional problem by age 7 increased by about 10 percent. So a preschooler who…
Emotions versus feelings
This kind of filtering is exactly what emotions do in the brain. You’re probably used to thinking of emotions as the same thing as feelings, but to the brain, they’re not. In the textbook definition, emotions are simply the activation of neurological circuits that prioritize…
Babies cry because they have no filters
By 6 months of age, a baby typically can experience surprise, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger, and fear. What babies don’t have are a lot of filters. Crying for many months remains the shortest, most efficient means of getting a parent to put a Post-it note on them. Parental…
Attachment and what babies tag as important
In that game of peekaboo, it is obvious that the baby and his mother have already formed a reciprocating relationship. In the late 1960s, researchers coined a term to describe it: attachment. Attachment theory springs from the finding that babies come into this world preloaded…
Epigrams On Programming
Low level programming languages
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Ios Press Ebooks - Ontological Analysis And Conceptual Modeling: Achievements And Perspectives
Episode-centric conceptual modeling
In this talk, I will briefly review the main achievements of what is now called “Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling”, from the first intuitions that originated the OntoClean methodology, to more recent contributions concerning ways of modeling part-of relations, roles, and…
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
Quando l'attenzione dell'altro si affievolisce
Se ci pensa, non gli sembra che l’attenzione di Aileen si sia affievolita poco a poco, nel modo quasi inavvertibile con cui qualunque attenzione probabilmente si affievolisce, prima o poi. Gli sembra di essersi seduto di fronte a lei una sera a cena e avere cominciato a…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Sprecare la vita senza accorgersene
La gente è strana:si infastidisce sempre per cose banali, e poi dei problemi gravi come il totale spreco della propria esistenza, sembra accorgersene a stento… C. Bukowski
Ricordarsi di se stessi
Diventare consapevoli di noi stessi, anche solo per pochi momenti, è la tecnica che può aiutarci ad uscire dallo stato di alienazione in cui ci troviamo abitualmente... Deve essere accompagnato da uno sforzo di riduzione del troppo parlare, del mentire a noi stessi e del dare…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Lovers hear how things are said, not what
And I should’ve listened to her—she told me almost nothing, but she did give me clues, and I know now that she put signs in her words and expressions that were as clear as the constellations over our heads. But I didn’t listen. It’s a fact of being in love that we often pay no…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
The circle of concern
We each have a wide range of concerns—our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war. We could separate those from things in which we have no particular mental or emotional involvement by creating a “Circle of Concern.”
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The ant as a responsive hollow
When at last the whole vast list is compiled, and the scientist calls “Finish!” for lack of further time or interest, he may well have the impression that the ant’s behavior is no more than its automatic and involuntary reaction to its environment. It is attracted by this…
The skin is a bridge as much as a barrier
The skin is always considered as a wall, barrier, or boundary which definitively separates oneself from the world—despite the fact that it is covered with pores breathing air and with nerve-ends relaying information. The skin informs us just as much as it outforms; it is as…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
What children need, money cannot buy
Raising healthy children is a labor-intensive operation. Contrary to the news from the broader culture, most of what children need, money cannot buy. Children need time and space, attention, affection, guidance, and conversation. They need sheltered places where they can be…
Teach little, observe much
Montessori teachers, on the other hand, are trained to teach little and observe much. Teachers, of course, must plan activities and have materials on hand to support the children’s interests, as suggested by Dewey’s ideas in chapter 1. However, it is important to recognize the…
Why The Modern World Is Bad For Your Brain (daniel J Levitin)
Our brains are not wired to multitask well
Although we think we’re doing several things at once, multitasking, this is a powerful and diabolical illusion. Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at MIT and one of the world experts on divided attention, says that our brains are “not wired to multitask well… When people think…