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Amanda Garcia

CIA - The World Factbook - 0 views

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Urbanization Pop Growth Mortality Rates HIV_AIDS

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    Greece- Factbook
Amanda Garcia

Dominican Republic and Greece Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences - 0 views

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Life Expectancy Literacy Rates Corruption Perception Index Death Penalty

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    Comparison Between DR & Greece
Carlotta Fois

Social Conformity Starts In The Brain - 0 views

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  • New research reveals the brain activity that underlies our tendency to "follow the crowd."
  • no doubt that we look to the behavior and judgment of others for information about what will be considered expected and acceptable behavior.
  • "We often change our decisions and judgments to conform with normative group behavior,"
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  • triggered a long-term conforming adjustment of an individual's own rating and that conflict with the group elicited a neuronal response in the RCZ and NAc similar to a prediction error signal.
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      Carlotta Fois on 10 Sep 10
       
      This is an interesting point. It means to say that if we are part of a group and that group has a strong opinion about something or a preference, to conform, our brain adjusts to that preference.
  • Dr. Klucharev and colleagues hypothesized that social conformity might be based on reinforcement learning and that a conflict with group opinion could trigger a "prediction error" signal. A prediction error, first identified in reinforcement learning models, is a difference between expected and obtained outcomes that is thought to signal the need for a behavioral adjustment.
  • The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine brain activity in subjects whose initial judgments of facial attractiveness were open to influence by group opinion
  • reinforcement
  • Dr. Klucharev and colleagues hypothesized that social conformity might be based on reinforcement learning and that a conflict with group opinion could trigger a "prediction error" signal. A prediction error, first identified in reinforcement learning models, is a difference between expected and obtained outcomes that is thought to signal the need for a behavioral
Coral Lipovetsky

Tour 'The Las Vegas of the North' - CNN.com - 0 views

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  • The North West seaside town of Blackpool was once the No.1 holiday destination for working-class British families. In the 1960s it would attract 17 million of them a year, until cheap, all-inclusive holidays to Spain cut their business in half. They called it "The Las Vegas Of The
  • North" because of its bright lights and reputation for bawdy thrills.
  • These days the town makes most of its money from old people and "stag and hen" nights -- drunken pre-nuptial parties with half-naked gangs of drunken lads and lasses falling in and out of strip clubs, sex shops, bars and brothels.
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      Coral Lipovetsky on 12 Sep 10
       
      This is a park that is invaded by gangs or old people, which is probably not as welcoming as actual Las Vegas...
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      Coral Lipovetsky on 12 Sep 10
       
      Before it was a popular, and nice place, but it has become, old and abandoned.
    • Coral Lipovetsky
      Coral Lipovetsky on 12 Sep 10
       
      Black pool is no longer a popular site, and this decreases the employment rate, the jibs, and incomes, of working families, and the people of Black pool.
Amanda Garcia

Dominican Republic - Country Profile - Republica Dominicana - Tourism Dominican Republic - 0 views

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Population Literacy Rates Constitution Ammendment Dates Agricultural Production Industries Geography Climate Natural Resources Export_Import Partners

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  • Capital City: Santo Domingo (pop. 2.4 million)
  • Type: Representative democracy.
  • Constitution: 28 November 1966; amended 25 July 2002
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  • Area: 48 442 sq. km. (18 704 sq. mi.)
  • Climate: Maritime semitropical, with an average yearly temperature of 26°C (78°F).
  • Population: 8.9 million.
  • Exports partners: USA 83.8%, Canada 1.5%, Haiti 1.5% (2003) Imports partners: USA 52.1%, Venezuela
  • Natural resources: Nickel, bauxite, gold, silver.
  • Agriculture products: Sugarcane, coffee, cotton, cocoa, tobacco, rice, beans, potatoes, corn, bananas; cattle, pigs, dairy products, beef, eggs.
  • Industries: Tourism, sugar processing, ferronickel and gold mining, textiles, cement, tobacco.
  • Literacy: 83%.
  • 11.9%, Mexico 4.7%, Colombia 4.2% (2003)
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