In this study, we examined racial identity and acculturative stress among 116 African American counselor education graduate students in Council for the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) accredited programs. Results indicated that racial identity and acculturative stress remain viable variables to take into account with African American students in counselor e...

The recent edition of the Textbook of physiology, edited by Fulton, reveals the enormous strides made in this field during the past fifteen years.8 Similar advances have been achieved in the increasingly closely related discipline of experimental psychology, a science that only a few decades ago was compartmentalized into artificial groups, such as Sensation, Cerebration and Intellection, and T...

This paper aims at presenting a topological model of motivic structure and analysis, and its application, via the implementation, to Schumann’s Of Foreign Lands and People in Scenes from Childhood. Our immanent approach importantly includes the concept of contour similarity for different motif lengths making then possible to formalize the germinal motif (or leitmotif) concept. Based on motif, c...

In this brief note I want to address the problem of translating into English the Russian word, obuchenie, as it concerns ongoing discussions of Vygotsky’s ideas about the arrangement of children’s experience by adults for the purposes of education and the relationship between learning and development that such arrangements engender. My current concern with this topic is part of an ongoing inter...

Macpherson (Nous 40(1):82–117, 2006) argues that the square/regular diamond figure threatens representationalism, construed as the theory which holds that the phenomenal character is explained by the nonconceptual content of experience. Her argument is the claim that representationalism is committed to the thesis that differences in the experience of ambiguous figures, the gestalt switch, shoul...

This paper describes a novel approach to summarizing legal text (i.e. case law) and shows how two automatic evaluation methods (i.e. ROUGE and Gestalt pattern matching) and a (semi-)human-based evaluation can be used for evaluating summarizers using a large legal corpus.

An amount of research has risen growing concern of designing aesthetics of interaction in addition to function, usability, and pleasure of it. Beyond aesthetic interaction, we propose poetic interaction as a promising design genre. Based on Bachelard’s phenomenological approach, we suggest that poetic interaction design begin with imagination and expression-making of both material and computati...

The book provides a practical model for helping clients with the gamut of self-medicating behaviors-substance and alcohol abuse, overeating, gambling, overworking, rage, and others-and describes a recovery program as a system created to change one's lifestyle over time through the development of disciplines that ultimately shape one's life. The volume will also be helpful to therapists in other...

Formal methods developed for modeling levels of selection problems have recently been applied to the investigation of major evolutionary transitions. We discuss two new tools of this kind. First, the "near-variant test" can be used to compare the causal adequacy of predictively equivalent representations. Second, "state-variable gestalt-switching" can be used to gain a useful dual perspective o...

We propose a probabilistic algorithm able to detect the curves that are unexpectedy smooth in a set of digital curves. The only parameter is a false alarme rate, influencing the detection only by its logarithm. We experiment the good continuation criterion on image level lines. One of the conclusion is that, accordingly to Gestalt Theory, one can detect egdes in a way that is widely independent...