Understanding Embryonic Development: A Contemporary View

Adolescent egocentrism: a contemporary view.

This study sought to determine whether adolescent egocentrism is displayed during adolescence in the same patterns as when the constructs were first defined in 1967. We empirically revisited the constructs of personal fable and imaginary audience in contemporary adolescents, hypothesizing a decrease in egocentrism with increasing age. Adolescents (N = 2,390) responded to a self-report measure o...

Machine Translation: A Contemporary View

Because the early history of machine translation (MT), roughly from 1945 to 1970, is well documented elsewhere (HUTCHINS, 1978; 1982) and because several recent studies and advances in MT have eclipsed those past events and opinions, we begin this review with the contemporary state of the field. This chapter is divided roughly into two parts. In the first part, we discuss contemporary theoretic...

Understanding affordances: history and contemporary development of Gibson’s central concept

Gibson developed the affordance concept to complement his theory of direct perception that stands in sharp contrast with the prevalent inferential theories of perception. A comparison of the two approaches shows that the distinction between them also has an ontological aspect. We trace the history and newer formalizations of the notion of affordance and discuss some competing opinions on its sc...

A contemporary view of coronal heating.

Determining the heating mechanism (or mechanisms) that causes the outer atmosphere of the Sun, and many other stars, to reach temperatures orders of magnitude higher than their surface temperatures has long been a key problem. For decades, the problem has been known as the coronal heating problem, but it is now clear that 'coronal heating' cannot be treated or explained in isolation and that th...

A contemporary view of coronavirus transcription.