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Cultural Explorations of Human Intelligence Around the World
The goal of this article is to review cultural explorations of human intelligence around the globe. The article opens in the first part with a consideration of cultural studies that suggest that there is more to intelligence than IQ. It continues with the suggestion for what that more might be, namely, successful intelligence. The second part of the article thus describes the theory of successful intelligence, as well as data from various cultures that support the theory. The third part of the article considers cultural conceptions, of implicit theories of intelligence. It is concluded that cultural studies suggest that conventional notions of intelligence are narrow and limited
Compression of an elastic roller between two rigid plates
A closed solution - exact within two-dimensional linear elastostatics - is deduced for the problem appropriate to the compression of an elastic circular cylinder between two smooth, flat and parallel, rigid plates. The boundary displacements obtained for the cylinder involve elliptic integrals, whereas its stress field is given in terms of elementary functions exclusively. The results found for the distribution of the contact pressure and for the width of the contact zone are compared with the corresponding predictions of Hertz's approximate theory, for which elementary corrections are determined by asymptotic means. Analogous corrections are established for a previously available approximate estimate of the diametral compression undergone by the roller, which remains indeterminate in the Hertz treatment of this two-dimensional contact problem
Research investigation of electrical discharge fragmentation for protein structure identification Final report
Electrical discharge fragmentation device for determination of bacteria fragmentation pattern
Bifurcation diagram and pattern formation in superconducting wires with electric currents
We examine the behavior of a one-dimensional superconducting wire exposed to
an applied electric current. We use the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau model to
describe the system and retain temperature and applied current as parameters.
Through a combination of spectral analysis, asymptotics and canonical numerical
computation, we divide this two-dimensional parameter space into a number of
regions. In some of them only the normal state or a stationary state or an
oscillatory state are stable, while in some of them two states are stable. One
of the most interesting features of the analysis is the evident collision of
real eigenvalues of the associated PT-symmetric linearization, leading as it
does to the emergence of complex elements of the spectrum. In particular this
provides an explanation to the emergence of a stable oscillatory state. We show
that part of the bifurcation diagram and many of the emerging patterns are
directly controlled by this spectrum, while other patterns arise due to
nonlinear interaction of the leading eigenfunctions
The Gene Ontology: enhancements for 2011
The Gene Ontology (GO) (http://www.geneontology.org) is a community bioinformatics resource that represents gene product function through the use of structured, controlled vocabularies. The number of GO annotations of gene products has increased due to curation efforts among GO Consortium (GOC) groups, including focused literature-based annotation and ortholog-based functional inference. The GO ontologies continue to expand and improve as a result of targeted ontology development, including the introduction of computable logical definitions and development of new tools for the streamlined addition of terms to the ontology. The GOC continues to support its user community through the use of e-mail lists, social media and web-based resources
Structure of A = 7 - 8 nuclei with two- plus three-nucleon interactions from chiral effective field theory
We solve the ab initio no-core shell model (NCSM) in the complete Nmax = 8
basis for A = 7 and A = 8 nuclei with two-nucleon and three-nucleon
interactions derived within chiral effective field theory (EFT). We find that
including the chiral EFT three-nucleon interaction in the Hamiltonian improves
overall good agreement with experimental binding energies, excitation spectra,
transitions and electromagnetic moments. We predict states that exhibit
sensitivity to including the chiral EFT three-nucleon interaction but are not
yet known experimentally.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, updated references and corrected a typ
The Effects Of Rapport-Building Style on Children’s Reports of a Staged Event
Three- to 9-year-old children (N = 144) interacted with a photographer and were interviewed about the event either a week or a month later. The informativeness and accuracy of information provided following either open-ended or direct rapport building were compared. Children in the open-ended rapport-building condition provided more accurate reports than children in the direct rapport-building condition after both short and long delays. Open-ended rapport-building led the 3- to 4-year-olds to report more errors in response to the first recall question about the event, but they went on to provide more accurate reports in the rest of the interview than counterparts in the direct rapport-building condition. These results suggest that forensic interviewers should attempt to establish rapport with children using an open-ended style
The WICS Model of Organizational Leadership
Leadership is essential to the successful functioning of virtually any organization. Scholars of leadership
attempt to understand what leads to success in leadership. Successful leaders need to do two things, among others. First, they need to have a story that followers can understand, accept, and, hopefully, support (see also Gardner, 1995). Second, they need to engage in complex processing that results in the creation, implementation, and monitoring of the story (see also Sternberg, 2003). The WICS model of leadership addresses both aspects of the leadership process. This model synthesizes many aspects of previous models. Thus it draws on much that is old, including trait, situational, behavioral, contingency, and transformational models. What do these models have to say about leadership? First, I present WICS. Then I relate it to past theories. Finally, I draw conclusions
Creatividad e inteligencia
A review of the most important theories and studies about intelligence and creativity. Both human abilities are considered from the different perspectives of relation, from inclusive ones to separate categories. The author shows us the variety and depth of present analysis that study creativity as a vital element to open new stances of cognitive world. The author exposes his essential triarchic intelligence theory.Revision de las mas importantes teorias y estudios sobre las relaciones entre inteligencia y creatividad. Ambas capacidades humanas se consideran desde muy diferentes relaciones, desde las inclusivas hasta las completamente independientes. El autor nos muestra la variedad y profundidad de los analisis actuales que estudian la creatividad como un rasgo vital para abrir las perspectivas sobre el mundo cognitivo. El autor expone su esencial teoria triarquica de la inteligencia
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