Late adolescents with career choice problems often have psychological problems as well. The starting point of this study was the question of career choice counselors whether potential clients with career choice problems and psychological problems could be accepted in career choice intervention, or whether it was better to advise them to seek help for their psychological problems. We investigate...

The major challenge that confronts undergraduate chemical education in US is the gap between the high demands that learning requires and the low efforts that students make partially due to the lack of motivation. This paper reports strategies to ameliorate student learning in the following areas: application of friendly presentation, utilization of analogies and correlation with everyday life. ...

Richard Cytowic has argued that synesthetic experimentation by modern artists was based on deliberate contrivances of sensory fusion and not on involuntary experiences of cross-modal association. He has placed artistic experiments with sensory fusion outside the domain of synesthesia research. Artistic experiments, though historically interesting, are considered irrelevant for the study of syne...

This paper describes a thesis exploring how computer programs can collaborate as equals in the artistic creative process. The proposed system, CoCo Sketch, encodes some rudimentary stylistic rules of abstract sketching and music theory to contribute supplemental lines and music while the user sketches. We describe a three-part research method that includes defining rudimentary stylistic rules f...

Geoffrey Miller has hypothesized that producing artwork functions as a mating display. Here we investigate the relationship between mating success and artistic success in a sample of 236 visual artists. Initially, we derived a measure of artistic success that covered a broad range of artistic behaviors and beliefs. As predicted by Miller's evolutionary theory, more successful male artists had m...

In the paper we present the findings of the empirical research study whose purpose was to monitor creativity abilities of seventh grade pupils in Slovenian elementary schools. More concretely, we monitored the levels of artistic-creative and artistic-formative development. The research sample consisted of 247 seventh graders in various elementary schools. We examined creativity abilities from t...

You don’t often encounter an 80-year-old psychiatrist who uses modular graphics synthesizers and mathematical algorithms to generate vibrant fractal fusions in his spare time. In the strange and creative case of Claude McCoy, he has practiced psychiatry for 50 years but now works only one day a week. After initially downsizing his practice eight years ago, he began experimenting with Bryce on a...

Considered within the context of his biography, overall artistic production, and seventeenth-century Dutch market for tronies, a recent multidisciplinary investigation Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with Red Hat (National Gallery Art, Washington) suggests that this small painting represents pivotal moment in artist’s career. Vermeer experimented here bolder, more abstract brushwork highly contrasting ...

Vast amounts of artistic data is scattered on-line from both museums and art applications. Collecting, processing and studying it with respect to all accompanying attributes is an expensive process. With a motivation to speed up and improve the quality of categorical analysis in the artistic domain, in this paper we propose an efficient and accurate method for multi-task learning with a shared ...

This study examines a group of middle school students who are Hispanic and their interest in attending college and pursuing a career in nursing. Although males and females both participated, mostly females expressed an interest in nursing as a profession. In this study investigators examined Hispanic middle school students’ knowledge and interest in attending college for a nursing degree and di...