Put traditional satoyama management to good account

Abstract. In experiments by Gibbs, Kushner, and Mills (1991) , sentences were supposedly either authored by poets or by a computer. Gibbs et al. (1991) concluded from their results that the assumed source of the text influences speed of processing, with a higher speed for metaphorical sentences in the Poet condition. However, the dependent variables used (e.g., mean RTs) do not allow clear conclusions regarding processing speed. It is also possible that participants had prior biases before the presentation of the stimuli. We conducted a conceptual replication and applied the diffusion model ( Ratcliff, 1978 ) to disentangle a possible effect on processing speed from a prior bias. Our results are in accordance with the interpretation by Gibbs et al. (1991) : The context information affected processing speed, not a priori decision settings. Additionally, analyses of model fit revealed that the diffusion model provided a good account of the data of this complex verbal task.

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EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NECK SHOULDER PAIN TREAMENT BY ACUPUNCTURE, MASSAGE AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE REMEDY

Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy ◽

10.34071/jmp.2013.2.15 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 110-117

Author(s):

Thi Tan Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Traditional Medicine ◽

Shoulder Pain ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Pain Treatment ◽

Central Hospital ◽

Treatment Results ◽

Good Account ◽

Before And After ◽

The City ◽

Pain Patients

Objectives: To assess the effectiveness neck shoulder pain treatment by acupuncture, massage and traditional medicine remedy. Materials and Methods: 42 patients included in the inpatient and outpatient at the Department of Traditional Medicine, Hue Central Hospital and Traditional Medicine Hospital of Thua Thien Hue, was diagnosed as neck shoulder pain. Patients were treated with acupuncture, massage and medicine, according to the research methodology, assessing the results before and after treatment. Results: The age accounted for the highest proportion of 31-45 (42.49%), the second is between the ages of 46-60 (26.18%) and> 60 (26.18%). Incidence in the city (66.67%) than rural (33.33%) (p <0:05). Patients presented with neck shoulder pain (100%), together with the head pain, pain in the shoulder, arm numbness, movement restrictions tilted head bowed. Conclusion: good variety and accounted for 71.42% of which are quite good account of 14.28%, only 2.38% is poor. Results of good, high aged 31-45 (35.72%) and in patients with a course of treatment (66.66%). Key words: neck shoulder pain, acupuncture, massage, traditional medicine remedy.

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Technological Platforms for Inclusive Practice at University: A Qualitative Analysis from the Perspective of Spanish Faculty Members

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13094755 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 4755

Author(s):

Víctor H. Perera ◽

Anabel Moriña ◽

Nieves Sánchez-Díaz ◽

Yolanda Spinola-Elias

Keyword(s):

Students With Disabilities ◽

Virtual Environments ◽

Faculty Members ◽

University Teaching ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Face To Face ◽

Good Account ◽

Inclusive Learning ◽

Spanish Public Universities ◽

Technological Platforms

Currently, the development of new virtual environments as a complementary tool to face-to-face teaching and the increased presence of students with disabilities at university classrooms are changing the landscape of university teaching. This article analyses the actions of faculty members who carry out inclusive practices in the context of technological platforms. The research was based on the assumptions of the qualitative paradigm, using individual semi-structured interviews with 119 faculty members from 10 Spanish public universities. The results show the reasons for inclusive learning with technological platforms, the use that faculty members make of these platforms in their inclusive educational practices, and the influence of these on the learning of students, especially students with disabilities. The conclusions give a good account of the conditions that determine the pedagogical use that faculty members make of virtual environments to facilitate the inclusion of students.

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From Old Labour to New Labour: A Comment on Rubinstein

Politics ◽

10.1111/1467-9256.00134 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 47-50 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Stephen Driver ◽

Luke Martell

Keyword(s):

Social Factors ◽

Social Democracy ◽

New Labour ◽

Good Account ◽

Post War

In a critique of our book New Labour, David Rubinstein has argued that we exaggerate the degree of difference between Old and New Labour and underplay the similarities. In this article we agree with many of the continuities that Rubinstein outlines. However, we argue that he himself gives plenty of evidence in favour of our thesis that change has been marked in many policy areas. We argue that we give a good account of the wider social factors that he says accounts for such change. In this article we offer a restatement of the view that New Labour offers a ‘post-Thatcherite’ politics. New Labour breaks both with post-war social democracy and with Thatcherism.

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On the different contributions of coherent structures to the spectra of a turbulent round jet and a turbulent boundary layer

Journal of Fluid Mechanics ◽

10.1017/s002211200100619x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 448 ◽

pp. 367-385 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

T. B. NICKELS ◽

IVAN MARUSIC

Keyword(s):

Boundary Layer ◽

Turbulent Boundary Layer ◽

Turbulent Flows ◽

Coherent Structures ◽

Isotropic Turbulence ◽

Structural Models ◽

Spectral Measurements ◽

Round Jet ◽

Good Account ◽

Single Size

This paper examines and compares spectral measurements from a turbulent round jet and a turbulent boundary layer. The conjecture that is examined is that both flows consist of coherent structures immersed in a background of isotropic turbulence. In the case of the jet, a single size of coherent structure is considered, whereas in the boundary layer there are a range of sizes of geometrically similar structures. The conjecture is examined by comparing experimental measurements of spectra for the two flows with the spectra calculated using models based on simple vortex structures. The universality of the small scales is considered by comparing high-wavenumber experimental spectra. It is shown that these simple structural models give a good account of the turbulent flows.

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A Feature-Segmentation Model of Short-Term Visual Memory

Perception ◽

10.1068/p3320 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 31 (5) ◽

pp. 579-589 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Koji Sakai ◽

Toshio Inui

Keyword(s):

Visual Memory ◽

Random Variable ◽

Short Term ◽

Pattern Complexity ◽

Convex Part ◽

Good Account ◽

Feature Segmentation ◽

Short Term Visual Memory ◽

The Relationship ◽

Response Feature

A feature-segmentation model of short-term visual memory (STVM) for contours is proposed. Memory of the first stimulus is maintained until the second stimulus is observed. Three processes interact to determine the relationship between stimulus and response: feature encoding, memory, and decision. Basic assumptions of the model are twofold: (i) the STVM system divides a contour into convex parts at regions of concavity; and (ii) the value of each convex part represented in STVM is an independent Gaussian random variable. Simulation showed that the five-parameter fits give a good account of the effects of the four experimental variables. The model provides evidence that: (i) contours are successfully encoded within 0.5 s exposure, regardless of pattern complexity; (ii) memory noise increases as a linear function of retention interval; (iii) the capacity of STVM, defined by pattern complexity (the degree that a pattern can be handled for several seconds with little loss), is about 4 convex parts; and (iv) the confusability contributing to the decision process is a primary factor in deteriorating recognition of complex figures. It is concluded that visually presented patterns can be retained in STVM with considerable precision for prolonged periods of time, though some loss of precision is inevitable.

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Moda masculina y distinción social. El ejemplo de Asturias desde la Restauración hasta la Segunda RepúblicaMale fashion and social distinction. The example of Asturias from the Restoration to the Second Republic

Vínculos de Historia Revista del Departamento de Historia de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha ◽

10.18239/vdh.v0i6.273 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 153

Author(s):

Luis Benito García Álvarez

Keyword(s):

Reference Points ◽

Second Republic ◽

Social Distinction ◽

Good Account ◽

Widespread Belief

Pese a lo extendido de la creencia de que a lo largo de buena parte del período contemporáneo la moda masculina se había caracterizado por la monotonía y la uniformidad, lo cierto es que esta dimensión no dejaría de desempeñar un destacado papel entre las estrategias de distinción social. En la Asturias de la Restauración, sometida a un acelerado proceso de industrialización y urbanización, tales realidades se tornarían bien visibles, generalizándose un cambio profundo en el atuendo tradicional y actuando Londres y más adelante también los modelos cinematográficoscomo referentes inexcusables del estilo masculino. De todo ello, dan buena cuenta fuentes como los anuncios publicitarios de sastres y bazares o materiales de tanta valía como las topografías médicas y los testimonios literarios.PALABRAS CLAVE: Asturias, Restauración, moda masculina, distinción, sastrería.ABSTRACTDespite the widespread belief throughout much of the contemporary period that male fashion was characterized by monotony and uniformity, the fact is that it always played a prominent role in the strategies of social distinction. In the Asturias of the Restoration, during an accelerated process of industrialization and urbanization, such realities became highly visible and a deep change in traditional attire became general, with London and later also the cinematographic models being key reference points for male style. Research sources such as the advertisements of tailors and clothes retailers and valuable materials such as medical topographies and literary testimonies provide a good account of all this.KEY WORDS: Asturias, Restoration, men’s fashion, distinction, tailoring.

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On Arguments from Ignorance

Informal Logic ◽

10.22329/il.v38i2.4697 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 38 (2) ◽

pp. 184-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Martin David Hinton

Keyword(s):

Epistemic Closure ◽

Argumentation Scheme ◽

Compte Rendu ◽

Good Account

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to give a good account of the argument from ignorance, with a presumptive argumentation scheme, and to raise issues on the work of Walton, the nature of abduction and the concept of epistemic closure. First, I offer a brief disambiguation of how the terms 'argument from ignorance' and 'argumentum ad ignorantiam' are used. Second, I show how attempts to embellish this form of reasoning by Douglas Walton and A.J. Kreider have been unnecessary and unhelpful. Lastly, I offer a full and effective account of the argument from ignorance and discuss the lessons of the analysis.Le but de cet article est double: donner un bon compte rendu de l'argument par l'ignorance, avec un schème d'argumentation présomptif, et soulever des questions sur certains aspects de l’œuvre de Walton, la nature des raisonnements abductifs et le concept de fermeture épistémique. Premièrement, j'offre une brève désambiguïsation de la façon dont les termes «argument par l'ignorance» et «argumentum ad ignorantiam» sont utilisés. Deuxièmement, je montre comment les tentatives de Douglas Walton et de A.J. Kreider d'embellir cette forme de raisonnement ont été ni nécessaires et ni utiles. Enfin, j'offre un compte-rendu complet et utile de l'argument par l'ignorance et je discute des leçons de l'analyse.

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Impact of Van der Waals interactions on structural and nonlinear optical properties of azobenzene switches

10.26434/chemrxiv.14731428.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

carmelo Naim ◽

Frédéric Castet ◽

Eduard Matito

Keyword(s):

Density Functional ◽

Nonlinear Optical ◽

Van Der Waals Interactions ◽

Dispersion Interactions ◽

Geometrical Structures ◽

Hartree Fock ◽

Meta Position ◽

Good Account ◽

London Dispersion ◽

Azobenzene Derivatives

<div> <div> <div> <p>The geometrical structures, relative Z-E energies, and second-order nonlinear responses of a collection of azobenzene molecules symmetrically substituted in meta- position with functional groups of different bulkiness are investigated using various ab initio and DFT levels of approximation. We show that RI-MP2 and RI-CC2 approximations provide very similar geometries and relative energies and evidence that London dispersion interactions existing between bulky meta-substituents stabilize the Z con- former. The !B97-X-D exchange-correlation functional provides an accurate description of these effects and gives a good account of the nonlinear optical response of the molecules. We show that density functional approximations should include no less than 50% of Hartree-Fock exchange to provide accurate hyperpolarizabilities. A property-structure analysis of the azobenzene derivatives reveals that the main contribution to the first hyperpolarizability comes from the azo bond, but phenyl meso-substituents can enhance it.</p> </div> </div> </div>

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Neurobiological successor features for spatial navigation

10.1101/789412 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

William de Cothi ◽

Caswell Barry

Keyword(s):

Grid Cell ◽

Biological Data ◽

Basis Set ◽

Grid Cells ◽

Dimensional Representation ◽

Boundary Vector ◽

Good Account ◽

Cell Firing ◽

Low Dimensional ◽

Environmental Geometry

AbstractThe hippocampus has long been observed to encode a representation of an animal’s position in space. Recent evidence suggests that the nature of this representation is somewhat predictive and can be modelled by learning a successor representation (SR) between distinct positions in an environment. However, this discretisation of space is subjective making it difficult to formulate predictions about how some environmental manipulations should impact the hippocampal representation. Here we present a model of place and grid cell firing as a consequence of learning a SR from a basis set of known neurobiological features – boundary vector cells (BVCs). The model describes place cell firing as the successor features of the SR, with grid cells forming a low-dimensional representation of these successor features. We show that the place and grid cells generated using the BVC-SR model provide a good account of biological data for a variety of environmental manipulations, including dimensional stretches, barrier insertions, and the influence of environmental geometry on the hippocampal representation of space.

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