Throughout university, students are required to complete complex writing tasks that involve a host of cognitive and metacognitive strategies, yet little is known about the differences in students' approach to the writing process. In particular, the role of students' beliefs…

Placebo effects constitute context-dependent medical phenomena, and exemplify the link between psychosocial factors and physiological processes. By surveying medical students (Study 1) and practicing physicians (Study 2), the present thesis explores the knowledge and attitudes towards the role of placebos,…

Structured knowledge representations are becoming central to the area of Information Science. Search engines companies have said that constructing an entity graph is the key to classifying their enormous corpus of documents in order to provide more relevant results to…

Nuestra investigación pretende estudiar los procesos cognitivos y de rendimiento existentes en la defensa en voleibol, con relación a la función en juego y el nivel de pericia. Para ello, se utilizó una muestra compuesta por un total de 20…

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This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through the Renaissance invention of the terrestrial globe.…

Knowledge acquisition for systems based on knowledge can be called knowledge engineering, according to Feigenbaum (1980) who used the term to describe the reduction of a wide context of knowledge for a set of facts and rules. The term Knowledge…

Marketers often use scarcity to influence consumers, with announcements such as "limited quantities," "until stocks last," "few tickets left for this event," "limited time offer," or "24 hour sale." Past research indicates that scarcity often has a positive effect on…

Interfaces between subsystems in collaborative product development projects are presently defined by interface control documents. These documents are created after agreements are made between designers on how to design subsystem interfaces. The designers must commit to the definitions given by…

Invasive research procedures, such as biopsy for pharmacodynamic study, often have no value for patient-volunteers in terms of diagnosis or clinical management. Accordingly, their burdens are generally justifiable only by appeal to knowledge value (that is, the benefit to future…