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ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages ..

"Here we show that four days of immersion in nature, and the corresponding disconnection from multi-media and technology, increases performance on a creativity, problem-solving task by a full 50% in a group of naive hikers. Our results demonstrate that there is a cognitive advantage to be realized if we spend time immersed in a natural setting. We anticipate that this advantage comes from an increase in exposure to natural stimuli that are both emotionally positive and low-arousing and a corresponding decrease in exposure to attention demanding technology, which regularly requires that we attend to sudden events, switch amongst tasks, maintain task goals, and inhibit irrelevant actions or cognitions. A limitation of the current research is the inability to determine if the effects are due to an increased exposure to nature, a decreased exposure to technology, or to other factors associated with spending three days immersed in nature."

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The Digital Union, part of Learning Technology in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, provides support for teaching and learning with technology. It is located on the third floor of the Science and Engineering Library and is a partnership of University Libraries and the Office of the CIO.

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The Intelligence in Wikipedia Project aims to accelerate the extraction of Wikipedia knowledge, e.g. with construction of infoboxes, and link the resulting schemata together to form a knowledge base of outstanding size. Not only will this `semantified Wikipedia' be an even more valuable resource for AI, but it will support Faceted browsing and simple forms of inference that may increase the recall of question-answering systems.

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Science On a Sphere® (SOS) is a room sized, global display system that uses computers and video projectors to display planetary data onto a six foot diameter sphere, analogous to a giant animated globe. Researchers at NOAA developed Science On a Sphere® as an educational tool to help illustrate Earth System science to people of all ages.

"Die Forscher betonen, dass ihre Studie nur Rückschlüsse über die durchschnittlichen Eigenschaften von Einzelkindern in China zulässt. Frühere Untersuchungen haben allerdings schon darauf hingewiesen, dass eine Kindheit ohne Geschwister generell negative Folgen für die Betroffenen haben kann. Mit dem wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung und der Öffnung dem Westen gegenüber ist in China inzwischen auch die Ein-Kind-Politik in die Kritik geraten. Momentan wird über ein Abschaffung diskutiert. In diesem Zusammenhang liefert die aktuelle Studie nun weitere Argumente: Die Ein-Kind-Politik bringt Generationen hervor, die negative Auswirkungen auf die chinesische Gesellschaft haben könnten, resümieren die Forscher. Lisa Cameron (Monash University in Clayton) et al.: Science, 10.1126/science.1230221 "

OpenWetWare is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering. If you would like edit access, would be interested in helping out, or want your lab website hosted on OpenWetWare, please join us. OpenWetWare is managed by the BioBricks Foundation."

"Ohne Belohnung läuft gar nichts Eigentlich müssten wir alle unser Leben ändern. Hirnforscher Gerhard Roth und Erziehungswissenschaftler Gerhard de Haan erklären, warum wir das trotzdem nicht tun. "

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