Tools for thought or thoughts for tools?

Tools for thought or thoughts for tools?

B ird and Emery report in this issue of PNAS (1) that rooks (Corvus frugilegus), corvids that do not habitually use tools in the wild, appear to possess tool-related capabilities hitherto known only in their tool-using relatives, the New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) (2–5). Their findings are striking in more than one respect, but it is of particular interest to evaluate their signific...

Tools for the Governance of Urban Design: The Tehran Experience

This research seeks to reflect the managerial, academic and professional experience of the  authors in the design and implementation process of urban design projects, aiming to use the application of the “design governance” model, in order to describe the documents and activities of the Department of Urban Planning and Architecture of Tehran Municipality in the last decade. This paper consists ...

Software Tools for the Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become the most popular method for imaging of brain functions. Currently, there is a large variety of software packages for the analysis of fMRI data, each providing many features for users. Since there is no single package that can provide all the necessary analyses for the fMRI data, it is helpful to know the features of each software package. ...

Tools of the Trade : Thought Experiments Examined

tools for approving the analytic – reasoning hypotheses: weighting reasons and tools

main purpose of the present research is to invent some tools for confirming hypotheses in analytic-reasoning researches. for this regard, the analytic research is used. the present tools, weighting to reasons tool (wrt) and repeat reasoning tool (rrt) are used for evaluating hypotheses of the current research. the results of the wrt shows that reasons weight (rw) for the first hypothesis is 8 a...