While there is increasing recognition of how relations of embodiment can be exploited for achievement of cognitive goals, we still lack any general method for formalizing the benefits that are then obtained, or for quantifying them. The present paper describes a method that can be used to calculate the informational benefit obtained when embodiment becomes a vehicle for generation of ‘good data...

Resolution 61/225, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in January 2007, constitutes a break-through in recognition of diabetes as a major health problem in all parts of the world. The resolution recognized that diabetes is a chronic, debilitating and costly disease associated with severe complications, which poses serious risks and challenges for the achievement of internationally ag...

On the basis of an integrated theoretical approach to achievement motivation, the authors designed this study to investigate the potential influence of mastery goal, performance-approach and avoidance-approach goals, individual interest, and situational interest on students' learning in a physical education softball unit. The authors collected and analyzed data from 6th graders (N = 177), using...

The 2014 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award goes to Doug A. Bowman of the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at Virginia Tech, USA, in recognition of research and design achievements that have significantly advanced knowledge in the fields of 3D user interfaces and virtual reality. Professor Bowman’s work on 3D UIs has resulted in both important interaction technique designs and a d...

Although adults with late stage posttreatment Lyme disease often experience difficulties in memory, little is known about the relationship between cognition and Lyme disease in children and adolescents. Twenty-five adolescents with late stage posttreatment Lyme disease (symptoms > 6 months) and 25 participants without Lyme disease (matched on gender, IQ, age, socioeconomic status) were assessed...

While research has established that men tend to exhibit greater levels of DFM than women, little research has examined the relation between DFM and other forms of disordered eating and exercise behaviors. Study 1 examined the influence of disordered eating and obligatory exercise on DFM in male and female college students. In women, DFM was related to eating concern and obligatory exercise; whe...

Recognition of the strategic importance of project management (PM) in the corporate world is rapidly accelerating. One reason for this acceleration may be a strong belief by business leaders that aligning project management with business strategy can significantly enhance the achievement of organizational goals, strategies, and performance. However, empirical literature that offers advice on ho...

The effective morphological features for four main postures recognition are proposed in this paper. The morphological features are extracted from the relationship between length and width of posture envelop, which covers the silhouette in each frame. The achievement in recognition, 96.26%, implementing on SOM classifier and testing with complex posture set, implied that the proposed morphologic...

First and 2nd graders (N = 28?) receiving Title I services received 1 of 3 kinds of classroom reading programs: direct instruction in letter-sound correspondences practiced in decodable text (direct code); less direct instruction in systematic sound-spelling patterns embedded in connected text (embedded code); and implicit instruction in the alphabetic code while reading connected text (implici...