NSF braves threat to abolish social sciences directorate

Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs

This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language – English or French – with a summary in the other. The opinions expressed and arguments employed here are...

NSF-CNPq Collaborative Research Computer and Information Sciences Research

Project Summary We propose Computer and Information Sciences Research in two areas: (1) technologies for distributed, scientiic collaborative environments, and (2) advanced algorithms for generating maps and error covariance matrix and for the processing and display of images via the network. The Galactic Emission Mapping (GEM), a joint US-Brazil astrophysics experiment to map radio emission fr...

in Humanities , Social Sciences , and Natural Sciences

Connecting the health sciences community to the Internet: the NLM/NSF grant program.

In 1992, as part of its high-performance computing and communications initiative, the National Library of Medicine decided to provide health sciences institutions with Internet connection grants similar to those offered to universities by the National Science Foundation. Although library involvement is not required, librarian and library uses have been the most common category in the applicatio...

Social Experience Does Not Abolish Cultural Diversity in Eye Movements

Adults from Eastern (e.g., China) and Western (e.g., USA) cultural groups display pronounced differences in a range of visual processing tasks. For example, the eye movement strategies used for information extraction during a variety of face processing tasks (e.g., identification and facial expressions of emotion categorization) differs across cultural groups. Currently, many of the differences...