E’VE been seeing the patient regularly for the past five years. For the sake of W anonymity, we will call him Psi. His problem as initially presented to us was a chronic inability to use his full potential in his work. Particularly, he showed an inability to learn by his past mistakes. He would make the same errors time and time again. It appeared that he couldn’t remember what caused him to be...

Book review of Snapshots from hell by Peter Robinson. Published by Warner Books (New York), 1994. Comments Postprint version. Published in Journal of Marketing, published by the American Marketing Association, Volume 59, Issue 3, July 1995, pages 101-106. The author has asserted his/her right to include this material in ScholarlyCommons@Penn. This other is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://...

In over 60 years of research, there have been very few demonstrations that working in a small collaborative group yields cognitive outcomes that cannot be matched or exceeded by the most competent member of the group rule induction (Laughlin & Futoran, 1985). The research suggests that there is nothing particularly special about working in small groups, at least with regards to cognitive outcom...

Interface agents are computer programs that learn users’ preferences to provide them personalized assistance with their computer-based tasks. In order to personalize the interaction with users, interface agents must learn how to best interact with each user and how to provide them assistance of the right sort at the right time. Particularly, an interface agent has to discover when the user need...

In the process of English learning, each learner has his/her own attitude towards learning. In this path, s/he should feel free to be responsible for what s/he wants and seeks to learn which shows how autonomous the learner is. This study is based on the hypotheses that there is a relationship between what the learner feels towards English language learning and his/her level of autonomy. For th...

in 2002, david alexander wrote principles of emergency planning and management. long a standard reference work in that book he described the processes of preparing for and responding to disasters, crises, and civil contingencies. he based the work on principles because he wanted to dissociate it from any particular system of emergency management. then, as now, many books in this subject are tie...