Baingio Pinna’s article “New Gestalt principles of perceptual organization: An extension from grouping to shape and meaning” won the 2009 Metzger Award of the Society for Gestalt !eory and its Applications. In this article, Pinna presented a variety of novel images that probe the way in which local and global factors interact to generate the percepts that we consciously see. As Pinna noted at t...

The Portuguese Law nº. 49/2018, of 14 August, creates the legal adult protection regime, regarding vulnerable adults. This matter has suffered recent changes in and judiciary field. A is someone who unable to - due health, disability or behaviour reasons fully, personally consciously exercise his/her rights or, same terms, fulfil duties.

nowadays knowledge and technology have become more important in organizations. sometimes the organizations forget their knowledge and skills unconsciously due to information inconsistencies and sometimes they forget their knowledge and skills consciously to become more agile. some aspects of forgetting are useful while the other aspects are harmful. moreover information technology has made a ba...

When presented with a yellow Volkswagen and a red Ferrari, how does the brain figure out which color goes with which car? The binding problem refers to how the visual system pre-consciously combines visual features of objects in the physical world to create coherent mental equivalents in our consciousness. I discuss why feature binding is a problem for our brains despite its seemingly effortles...

A software architect should consciously choose between architectural alternatives for a given problem. In multi-threaded software, the architectural choices for resource sharing problems can be expressed as two patterns, the resource-user thread and the resource thread. A resource-user thread acquires and releases exclusive access to shared resources. A resource thread has permanent exclusive a...

The problem and the solution.Although technology is being used to support learning through electronic versions of traditional instructional programs, its most direct effect on work performance is through interactive tools that structure work processes and provide links to supporting resources. Human resource development professionals charged with enhancing performance and learning must examine ...

experience and we eagerly await its publication?amongst other things to learn how the therapeutic community was realized with a 'framework of management and order' to survive and carry out the task for which they are intended, much more consciously select their population.' The reprinting of this significant book will probably not be an economical proposition and we are indebted to the Chaucer ...

[W]e didn’t use the words service-learning or experiential learning for several years, consciously, because at Stanford, words count. They can get you in trouble. We did not want our efforts to connect students’ service with academics to appear to faculty as some sort of “touchy-feely” exercise, which is what those words would connote in their minds. Timothy K. Stanton, Director Haas Center for...