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Chequered flag for DC

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:52:31 GMT

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Official: Coulthard announces retirement from F1

03/07/2008

Speaking at Silverstone today, ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix, Scottish veteran David Coulthard has announced his retirement from F1 at the end of the season.

"I would like to announce today my decision to retire from racing in Formula One at the end of this season," said the Scot. "I will remain actively involved in the sport as a consultant to Red Bull Racing focusing on testing and development of the cars."

While he is closing the door on F1, Coulthard insists that he is not hanging up his helmet, and will continue to race, though he has yet to announce any specific details.

News from China Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:37:43 GMT

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Clip Source: machinedesign.com

Not all medical innovation comes from the West.

Noninvasive testing was prominent. For example, engineers at Masimo Corp. (masimo.com) redesigned the firm’s Radical Pulse Oximeters into noninvasive and continuous hemoglobin monitors. The company says blood-hemoglobin level is one of the world’s mostfrequently tested medical indicator because it helps diagnose anemia, a blood disorder affecting 2 billion people worldwide. Older tests were invasive and could only be done intermittently. The company’s Rainbow SET technology permits more-frequent and convenient testing. This helps health-care personnel make better clinical decisions earlier, especially in acute settings such as intensive care, surgery, and trauma, where blood loss is common.

The eZscan non-invasive diabetes screening device gives healthcare personnel a quick way to detect type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes, based on altered neurological skin functions.

How We Reason- Book

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:04:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.oup.com

How We Reason

Philip Johnson-Laird

Price: £29.95 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-856976-3
Publication date: 26 October 2006
584 pages, 12 halftones, 18 line illus., 234x156 mm

One of the pioneers in the psychology of reasoning provides a groundbreaking and fascinating account of the psychology of thinking and reasoning
Written to be accessible to a broad audience of general readers and academics
Outlines a new approach to understanding reasoning, showing how it can succeed in predicting outcomes that are successful, and in predicting those that are not
Looks at reasoning across a range of real life situations - from terrorism to irrational fears about illness

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Reasoning
Experimental psychology
Philosophy of mind
Neurosciences
Social, group or collective psychology
Educational psychology
Popular science
Psychological testing & measurement
Psychiatry

They did not give up

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:39:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: R. H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York City caught on.

When Bell telephone was struggling to get started, its owners offered all their rights to Western Union for $100,000. The offer was disdainfully rejected with the pronouncement, "What use could this company make of an electrical toy."

Rocket scientist Robert Goddard found his ideas bitterly rejected by his scientific peers on the grounds that rocket propulsion would not work

An expert said of Vince Lombardi: "He possesses minimal football knowledge and lacks motivation."

Michael Jordan and Bob Cousy were each cut from their high school basketball teams.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."

After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little."

When Lucille Ball began studying to be actress, she was to"Try any other profes

Clip Source: www.des.emory.edu

As a young man, Abraham Lincoln went to war a captain and returned a private. Afterwards, he was a failure as a businessman. As a lawyer in Springfield, he was too impractical and temperamental to be a success.

Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62.

Socrates was called "an immoral corrupter of youth" and continued to corrupt even after a sentence of death was imposed on him.

Sigmund Freud was booed from the podium when he first presented his ideas to the scientific community of Europe.

Robert Sternberg received a C in his first college introductory-psychology class.

Thomas Edison's teachers said he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive."

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4-years-old and did not read until he was 7.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he succeeded

Tags: success, motivation, career, failure

'Questioning' purpose

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:27:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This selection focuses on the role of questions in teaching and testing

Clip Source: www.garlikov.com

Questions should be used to help students be taught what they need, not to discard students because they have not yet learned what they need.⁽³⁾

Second, and equally important, there is a whole psychology involving grades that is detrimental to learning, and to teaching. Kids tend to study for grades rather than for knowledge and understanding; teachers tend to give assignments and tests to be able to give grades, not for any useful teaching purpose.

If you get a C you move on with the class, instead of going back to remedy why you got that C. If you top out a test with an A, you feel you have learned all you needed to, even if you did not really study very much or tap into the potential to have learned far more. When either of these things happen - and they happen often - grades are counterproductive to teaching and to learning.

Tags: teaching effectively, questions, grading

AAT - ETS

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:27:47 GMT

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Clip Source: sydneyplus.ets.org

Accounting Aptitude Test.The Accounting Aptitude Test measures those skills and abilities considered important for success in the study of introductory accounting and non-accounting finance-related jobs, such as assistant bookkeeper and accounting clerk. The tests takes 50 minutes to complete and consists of three parts: communication skills, including vocabulary, grammar, and reading comprehension; quantitative skills, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and algebraic manipulations; and problem solving skills, including analogies, recognition of relevant data, and logic. The norm-referenced test has been developed in conjunction with certified public accountants in public practice, industry, and education.

Tags: testing

TEST LINK Database - ETS

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:23:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ets.org

Test Link is a database of 25,000 tests and other measurement devices such as surveys and questionnaires, that makes information on standardized tests and research instruments available to researchers, graduate students, and teachers.

Tags: testing