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- Army Uses Advanced Systems to Understand What Soldiers Know
- Research into warfighter cognition could save lives in combat and apply to multiple programs. Information overload can stop troops in their tracks. Ongoing investigations are examining how to determine when a soldier has received too much data as well as how technology can lessen the cognitive burden of...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- [beta]-Carotene and n-3 supplementation aid cognition
- Men who take β-carotene supplements for 15 years or longer may have less cognitive decline, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (757:2184-2190, 2007). Decreases in cognitive ability-thinking, learning, and memory skillsstrongly predict dementia, a growing public health issue, according to background information in the article. Longterm...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- A Paradigm for Assessing Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge in Engineering Students
- ABSTRACT Conceptual and procedural knowledge are two mutually-supportive factors associated with the development of engineering skill. The present study extends previous work on undergraduate learning in engineering to provide further validation for an assessment paradigm capable of quantifying engineering students' conceptual and problem-solving knowledge. Eight students who were enrolled in...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- 2007 Ad
- CHICAGO -- SIGGRAPH 2007 announced the selection of Vilayanur S. Ramachandran as the third Featured Speaker at the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 5-9 August 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, USA. Ramachandran is the Director of the Center...
- Research articles 2007-06-18
- DSRTF Hires Executive Director
- Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation DSRTF has announced the hire of an Executive Director, Na'eem Salaam, as part of their ongoing mission to further the awareness and funding of Down syndrome cognition research. Salaam is pleased to join an organization whose goals are to provide more opportunities for individuals...
- Research articles 2006-06-15
- Emotional Impairment Linked to Cognitive Deficits in Bipolar Children.
- Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO, Oct. 21 AScribe Newswire -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago used functional brain imaging to establish a link between emotional impairment and poor cognition in children with bipolar disorder. "This study...
- Research articles 2005-10-21
- Welfare of the laying hen; proceedings
- SF481 2003-026169 0-85199-813-5 Welfare of the laying hen; proceedings. Poultry Science Association. Meeting (2003: Bristol, England) Ed. by G. C. Perry. (Poultry science symposium series; 27) CABI Publishing, [c]2004 430 p. $140.00 There has been much public concern during the past few...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- A cognitive-psychodynamic perspective to understanding secretary of state Cyrus Vance's worldview.
- This article goes beyond traditional cognitive studies, many of which focus on the image of the enemy, by incorporating the role of "personality" in impression formation. Through the use of a cognitive-psychodynamic perspective, traditional categories in image studies are expanded to explain better Cyrus Vance's worldview during his tenure as...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- MAC
- MAC 1. A project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to introduce the first practical multiaccess system . The name is an acronym derived from machine-aided cognition expressing the broad project objective and multiple-access computer describing its major tool. The system incorporated not only a new...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- Science of Self-Control, The
- The Science of Self-Control. Howard Rachlin. 2000. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 220 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0674000935. An intriguing and tightly-written work of behavioral psychology that sets forth the scientific underpinnings of self-control, including habit and willpower, simple and complex ambivalence, addiction, and social cooperation. A chapter on rules and...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Cognition Developing Smart Autonomous Agents For Use On Web By Air Force
- Initially Deployed For Activity-Based Costing, Agents Will Eventually Be Used For Defense Apps Cognition Corp. has been selected by the US Air Force to develop and deploy Intelligent Autonomous Agents software for use in Activity-Based Costing and other applications. The contract requires the Agents software to be tested...
- Research articles 1999-04-26
- Institutional initiatives for technological change: from issue interpretation to strategic choice
- Abstract To test a managerial cognition model of organizational adaptation to technological change, we examine strategic responses to the introduction of electronic filing of individual income-tax returns by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Based on data from over four hundred tax-return preparation businesses in the United States, we...
- Research articles 1995-06-22
- Persuasion Strategies For Information Technology Usage: An Elaboration Likelihood Model
- This paper examines the role of persuasion strategies in motivating IT Information Technology usage. Drawing upon the Elaboration-Likelihood Model ELM, examine two such strategies are examined, central and peripheral routes to persuasion respectively operationalized using argument quality and source credibility constructs, and link them to the salient cognitions related to...
- White papers 2004-06-10
- Extended Cognition and Social Constructionism as Underpinnings for Knowledge Management Practice
- Theories of cognition and meta-theoretical frameworks provide important areas for exploring some of the theoretical underpinnings of knowledge management practice. Two areas of theory are explored as potential fruitful for incorporation to knowledge management theory and practice. Extended cognition, based predominantly on the work of Andy Clark, is presented as...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Cognitive Management: Managing Your Organization's Mind
- This discussion of cognition suggests a fresh analysis of organizations and a new set of tools to do the job. Understanding cognition and other information system psychologies will help managers and individual contributors to accurately value knowledge, improve learning and communication, and lead to less hierarchical, more team-based organization structures....
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- University of West Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition,.(Ken Ford named to board of supervisors of Spaceport Florida Authority)(Brief Article)
- Ken Ford, director of the University of West Florida's Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, has been appointed to the board of supervisors of the Spaceport Florida Authority. Under Ford's direction, the IHMC was recently ... Ken Ford, director of the University of West Florida's ...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Cognition, Quantum Skills, and Knowledge Management in the Criminal Investigation Process: A Conceptual Model
- The criminal investigation process is a critical function of policing. The main actor in crime related policing is the investigator who is involved in every step of the criminal investigation. Throughout the criminal investigation, the investigator uses his/her cognitive abilities and personal knowledge strategies to understand and solve the crime....
- White papers 2005-11-28
- Cognition Corporation Wins Air Force Contract for $750,000 to Develop Intelligent Autonomous Agents for Use On the Internet
- BEDFORD, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 1, 1999--Cognition Corporation today was awarded a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovative Research SBIR contract from Wright-Patterson Air Force Research Laboratories to develop and deploy Intelligent Autonomous Agents software for use in Activity Based Costing and other applications.
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- USA: HNC SOFTWARE AWARDED CONTRACT FOR MACHINE COGNITION TECHNOLOGY.
- HNC Software LLC, Advanced Technologies Group, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $6,462,270 cost-plus-fixed fee contract. This effort will develop, test, demonstrate and deliver key software components of a vision for machine cognition technology HNC Software LLC, Advanced Technologies Group, San Diego, Calif., is...
- Research articles 2006-09-20
- Brainpower: The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition has built a national reputation for itself while operating far from the state's more-hyped high-tech corridors. (Technology).(Brief Article)
- There's very little gee-whiz on display at the dauntingly named Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola. A home-grown supercomputer hums quietly in one room, and there's a sophisticated graphics simulation machine, but the focus is on the institute's human resources. Each...
- Research articles 2002-03-01
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