“You’re doing great. Keep doing what you’re doing”: socially supportive communication during first-generation college students’ socialization

PLOD: Keep Track of What You're Doing

PLOD (the Personal LOgging Device) is a simple text interface which allows System Administrators (and others) to keep a record of the work they do from day to day. The program was developed in Perl with device independence, flexibility, extensibility, and ease of use in mind. The user-interface is reminiscent of Berkeley mail, complete with many pre-defined tilde-escapes which perform various u...

Doing the opposite to what another person is doing.

The three studies presented here aim to contribute to a better understanding of the role of the coordinate system of a person's body and of the environment in spatial organization underlying the recognition and production of gestures. The paper introduces a new approach by investigating what people consider to be opposite gestures in addition to identical gestures. It also suggests a new point ...

Doing fatherhood, doing family: contemporary paternal perspectives

Mobile learning anytime, anywhere: What are our students doing?

Recent developments in mobile technologies have provided unique opportunities for learning and teaching. This paper reports on recent research undertaken at a regional Australian university in order to understand how higher education students are using mobile devices to support their learning. A survey instrument was developed and deployed and the data collected analysed quantitatively. Upon an...

Neuroscience: What Are Cortical Neurons Doing during Sleep?

Through application of the latest calcium imaging techniques, a new study shows that pyramidal neurons generally decrease their activity during slow wave sleep and, remarkably, REM sleep, whereas parvalbumin interneurons increase their activity and could thus inhibit particular pyramidal cells during REM sleep.