HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: efenez@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Ephrem Fernandez)
Subject: time allocation in natural environments
Summary: Does anyone know of a monitoring procedure that would allow
Keywords: time allocation; self-monitoring procedure; Tucker & Vuchinich
Organization: Psychology Department, University of Queensland
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 07:12:07 GMT


  Does anyone know of a procedure that allows computation of amount of
time subjects spend on particular activities in their natural environment?
Tucker & Vuchinich (1988) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. 97, 
pp. 181-195 (bottom of page 189) refer to such a procedure that they
developed to measure time allocation to alcohol consumption versus 11
other activities.  However, it was a conference paper apparently and 
I have been unable to get further information on it.  So, basically, 
I'm after a self-monitoring or other procedure that allows the experimenter
to determine how much time a subject has spent on each of a range of 
activities.  Any info or creative ideas on this would be gratefully
appreciated.  Thanks.

Sincerely,

Ephrem Fernandez, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia, QLD 4072
Australia.
E-Mail Address: efenez
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From: t4mhoff@srv.PacBell.COM (Todd Hoff)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: What experiences does it take to be human?
Keywords: n
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:19:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: PacBell.1992Apr8.181913.10625
Distribution: all
Organization: Pacific * Bell

I hope this posting doesn't seem
-- 
Thanx
Todd
t4mhoff@srv.pacbell.com
What the thinker thinks the prover proves (someone)
From: bsang@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Daniel Ang)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Literature Request - Confirmation Bias
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:35:29 GMT
Organization: Monash University

I am undertaking a review of literature relevant to the confirmation bias
and in particular attempts to reduce the negative affects of the same.

Please eMail any information to me at the address below. If there is enough
interest I will post a summary of the responses to this group.

Thanks in advance.


_____________________________
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Research Assistant      	       	    Phone:   + 61 3 573 2620    	
Department of Information Systems    Fax:     + 61 3 573 2745
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From: houle@nmt.edu (Paul Houle)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Unpleasantness re: inner child discussion
Date: 9 Apr 92 01:12:50 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

>Right.  And are phrenology and astrology effective?  Is there any, um,
>evidence to show that they either are or aren't?  One of the few actual
>scientific studies I know on the effectiveness of astrology came to the
>conclusion that in general astrological counselors are actually very
>helpful to their clients.  

	I have a very good friend who is an amateur astrologer.  Instead of
seeing an astrologer,  he computes his own charts and those of other people
and looks for different patterns which,  he believes,  relate to both
innate potentials in people and past and future events.

	Once in a while he gives me advice based on my chart,  and it is
usually something like "You should be very responsible today",  "It's
important that you get enough to eat",  and stuff like that.  Generically
good advice.  My chart has an opposition between Venus and Mars,  which is
supposed to show that my love life (or lack of one) is a serious potential
conflict in my life.  Sure,  it's a serious conflict,  probably THE serious
conflict at this point in my life.  Yet,  just one point of agreement doesn't
prove anything.  He made an attempt at prediction and got the idea that
this conflict would lessen in intensity around a certain time, even told
me the exact day.  It didn't,  and it hasn't.

	Although I don't believe in astrology,  I think it is a positive
thing in his life.  He gets a great deal of enjoyment studying astrological
references in the works of Chaucer,  and reading old books on astrology
by Ptolomey and the like.  One time he needed to get something rather
exotic calculated,  so I refered him to a friend of mine who an expert
astronomer.  (I'm presently learning celestial mechanics with some help from
this person)  It turned out that between the two of them they got really
confused.  Each one walked away convinced the other was crazy.  :-)

	As I've recently used NLP and other techniques towards developing my
communication and body-reading abilities,  I started describing what I was
doing as aura-reading.  Although I don't really believe in auras,  I find that
this a label which allows me to use my intuition without putting any real
limits on what it can do.  By not specifying much theory on how it works,  my
unconcious is free to use whatever methods that it can.  Sure,  talking about
it this way does alienate some people (like my astronomer friend),  but
it's also real good for picking up girls at metaphysical bookstores!


--
From: lgauvin@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Lisa Gauvin)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Star Trek and psychology?
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:11:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Center for EUV Astrophysics
NNTP-Posting-Host: sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu

Hello,
	Have a question relating to Spock and psychology.  
Okay here goes, I work at the Center for EUV Astrophysics, and
the group that I am in is called the EGO group, which stands
for the Euv Guest Observer.  Keeping with the "ego" theme, we all
name our workstations after mental illness and such.  For 
example, we have superego, id, neurosis, hysteria.  Anyways
with Spock being have half human half vulcan we are wondering
what one would call a person, like Spock, who repress his
emotions.  All we could come up with are:

1.  obsessive/compulsive:  denial of emotions, emphasis on thinking and order,
hard working, very responsible, not a risk taker.

2.  schizotypal: feelings are frozen, not even felt. a loner, emphasis
again on what goes on in the mind -- in this case, "magical thinking"
LIKE! "i think i am half vulcan/half human".

Does anyone have any other suggestions?  Please e-mail me if you can to
the address listed below.  I will read the sci.psychology group too.

Thanks
Lisa
lgauvin@ssl.berkeley.edu
From: magik@chinet.chi.il.us (Ben Liberman)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Phobias
Keywords: NLP   NeuroLinguistic Programing
Date: 5 Apr 92 09:53:56 GMT
Distribution: sci
Organization: Chinet - Public access UNIX

In article <1992Apr4.195724.23813@news.Hawaii.Edu> lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:
>
>NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming) has a technique called the Fast
>Phobia/Trauma Cure.  It is claimed that this technique can usually cure a
>simple phobia (such as fear of flying) in a single session.  It is also
>claimed that the same technique can be used to neutralize memories of
>traumatic experiences, such as rape or war experiences.  
>

Often times, people will have problems using this technique because they
have misidentified an anxiety about a situation as a phobia.

For example, I know a few white knuckle flyers who spend their time, before
flying, thinking of the various things that might go wrong (in gruesome
detail ;-) and by the time they are in their seats on the plane, they are
just waiting for that seemingly inevitable disaster to befall them. 

I've only encountered one person who actually had a phobia relating to
flying in airplanes.  This person would visibly cringe at the mere 
suggestion of her getting on an airplane.
of 

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	Ben Liberman    USENET    magik@chinet.chi.il.us
From: bsang@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (D. Ang)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: just a test
Date: 8 Apr 92 00:04:07 GMT
Organization: Monash University

testing ....
From: mgrice@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Michael Grice)
Newsgroups: sci.psychology
Subject: Literature Request - Overconfidence Bias
Date: 9 Apr 92 06:04:33 GMT
Organization: Monash University

I am undertaking a review of literature relevant to the overconfidence bias
and in particular attempts to reduce the negative affects of the same.

Please eMail any information to me at the address below. If there is enough
interest I will post a summary of the responses to this group.

Thanks in advance.


_____________________________
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Research Assistant      	       	    Phone:   + 61 3 573 2620    	
Department of Information Systems    Fax:     + 61 3 573 2745
P.O. Box 197
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Newsgroups: sci.psychology
From: cworth@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (CHUCK WORTH)
Subject: Re: Star Trek and psychology?
Reply-To: cworth@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
Organization: California State University, Chico
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 15:23:21 GMT

In article lgauvin@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu (Lisa Gauvin) writes:
>	Have a question relating to Spock and psychology.  
> [stuff deleted]   what one would call a person, like Spock, who represses
> his emotions?  [stuff deleted]
   I think it would be more correct to say Spock *suppresses* his emotions
 rather than "represses".  It's the difference between consciously (aware)
 versus unconsciously denying the emotion.
   I don't know the answer (or else I'm repressing it... B^)   ).
                                      -C-

**********************************************************
CHUCK WORTH, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO
CWORTH@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU
From: Helgi.Hjalmarsson@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: sci.engr
Subject: Arbitrary triangulated surfaces.
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:47:17 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Does anyone know of a method to transform an arbitrary triangulated
surface 
into a plane? (I am only considering simply connected surfaces).
Pointers to 
papers would be appreciated.  Note that for arbitrary surfaces
projection does 

not work in general and breaking the surface into a set of curves (which
then 
could be made isoparametric curves in 2D) which extend between two
boundary 
points of the surface does also not work in general. One can think of a 
mushroom shaped surface where both of these method fail. 

Thanks in advance,
Helgi Hjalmarsson
From: solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky)
Newsgroups: sci.engr
Subject: Re: Foreign Students / Faculty
Date: 11 Apr 92 21:13:17 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

In article <44921@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:

|> In mathematics and statistics, it is the PhD program which
|> counts here, and the proportions in these programs is very high.  But it is not
|> maintained to keep some balance, but because Americans do not exist capable and
|> willing to enter these programs.

I don't think anybody can argue with you there.

Jason W. Solinsky
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From: makrisna@convex1.tcs.tulane.edu (Krishna Achuta Rao)
Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.edu,misc.education,sci.engr.biomed,sci.engr.chem
Subject: Re: Foreign Students / Faculty
Date: 9 Apr 92 22:40:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr9.224042.23794
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-23744]: convex1.tcs.tulane.edu

In article <GERRY.92Apr9160546@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>
>   * 3. Do they have any impact on the Salaries (for Faculty or
>Engineers)
>
>Lower: Many of the foreigners want to stya in the USA after
>graduation.  The only way to do so is to get a green card.  To get
>that, they must have an employer.  Employers, knowing this, offer
>lower salaries which the foreigners will not refuse because they want
>to stay.  An employer then has the option to hire a qualified
>American at one price or an equally qualified foreigner at a lowr
>price...
>
       Just a clarification here.. under immigration laws the employer has
       to prove that there was no American citizen with similar qualifications
       that applied for the job that went to a foreigner. 
       At the time of offering the job the company has to get the state labor
       department to certify that the salary being offered is in line with the
       usual rate and that ensures the kind of undercutting Gerry is wrting 
       about.


>
>--
>Gerry Roston (gerry@cmu.edu)    | [the most perfect form of popular
>Field Robotics Center,          | government is that] where the least injury
>Carnegie Mellon University      | done to meanest individual, is considered
>Pittsburgh, PA, 15213           | as an insult on the whole constitution.
>(412) 268-3856                  | Solon
>                                | 
>The opinions expressed are mine | 
>and do not reflect the official | 
>position of CMU, FRC, RedZone,  | 
>or any other organization.      | 

Krishna.
--
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Krishna Achuta Rao                         +                               +
+ Tenured Graduate Student                   +   Tulane University           +
+ Department of Mechanical Engineering.      +   The big Easy. LousyAnna.    +
Xref: sparky sci.engr:1143 sci.edu:490 misc.education:1826 sci.engr.biomed:196 sci.engr.chem:211
From: khafagi@egr.msu.edu (Bassem K. Khafagi)
Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.edu,misc.education,sci.engr.biomed,sci.engr.chem
Subject: Foreign Students / Faculty
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:29:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: msuinfo.1992Apr8.022921.6693
Reply-To: khafagi@egr.msu.edu (Bassem K. Khafagi)
Organization: Michigan State University
Originator: khafagi@frith.egr.msu.edu

I'm doing research on the "Influence of Foreign Students and Faculty on the
U.S Engineering (Industry & Education).  I need some feedback from Engineers, 
American students (Grad. & Under.), Faculty, and any interested person on the
following subject: (I will put my ideas in questions form)

PS. I will use "FE" to stand for "Foreign Students, Faculty, and/or Engineers"


* 1. Do you feel FE are assets or burden to the system

* 2. Do you beleive they discourage women or minorities from the eng. profession

* 3. Do they have any impact on the Salaries (for Faculty or Engineers)

* 4. How the system can benifit from their existence in the U.S.

* 5. For Students taught by Foreign Faculty or TA's, What is your feedback

* 6. Do they need more admin. work (Burden)

* 7. Do you have any thoughts or Ideas on the subject "not covered here"


*** PLEASE, e-Mail your comments since I don't read this news group. THNX....

Bassem
Newsgroups: sci.engr,sci.edu,misc.education,sci.engr.biomed,sci.engr.chem
From: oconnell@zeus.unomaha.edu
Subject: Re: Foreign Students / Faculty
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 15:35:50 GMT

In article <GERRY.92Apr10111557@onion.cmu.edu>, gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
> A follow up:
> 
> The post about the employer having to prove that there is no similarly
> qualified Amercian... if you believe that, then you'll believe
> anything.  Talk to ANYONE that has written a sole-source justification
> for a governmental contract.  You can make a 1/4UNC20 bolt seem unique
> without even trying hard.
> 
> As to the communication ability: When I travelled abroad, I made it a
> point to AVOID other Americans and English speakers because part of
> the reason for travelling is to learn a new culture and language.  
> 
> It has gotten to a point, for me, that if a person can not express
> themselves clearly, then I don't care what they are saying.  Trying to
> decipher some of the very thick accents around this place takes to
> much effort, and the point being made it typically lost in the effort
> to understand.  While I have nothing against foreign students, I
> believe that the TOEFL exam should be made harder and should require a
> spoken portion.  The only reason that many of us can understand our
> foreign colleagues is because of many years of practice.



Gerry,

I would really like you to take the TOEFL and then honestly post your
score on the net work to prove that it needs to be harder.  Just buy a sample
book that has sample tests in it and take one and then let me know.





> 
> --
> Gerry Roston (gerry@cmu.edu)    | The study of theology, as it stands in the
> Field Robotics Center,          | Christian churches, is the study of
> Carnegie Mellon University      | nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests
> Pittsburgh, PA, 15213           | on no principles; it proceeds by no
> (412) 268-3856                  | authority; it has no data; it can
>                                 | demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no
> The opinions expressed are mine | conclusion.  Thomas Paine
> and do not reflect the official | 
> position of CMU, FRC, RedZone,  | 
> or any other organization.      | 
Newsgroups: sci.engr
From: elsonliu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Liu)
Subject: American women (was Re: Foreign Students / Faculty)
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 23:41:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.211150.20228@athena.mit.edu> solman@athena.mit.edu (Jason W Solinsky) writes:

>Americans discriminate against women when they bring them up, by
>implying that certain lines of work or not for them, and emphasising less
>important atributes more when talking to girls than boys. Most of the damage
>is probabally done by the parents. The end result, in my not so PC opinion, 
>is that these attitudes cause the American girls to be inferior on the whole
>(not just academia) to their Asian counterparts. So I can't complain that
>Asian girls appear to make up about 50% of our female population (I don't
>know the exact figure).

"Implying that certain lines of work...and emphasising less important
attributes" do not necessarily mean inferiority.  To quote that famous
French observer of American democracy, Alexis de Tocqueville,
		"...while they have allosed the social inferiority of woman
	to continue, they have done everything to raise her morally and 
	intellectually to the level of man...
		"...And now that I come near the end of this book in which I
	have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans,
	if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary
	prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it
	is due to the superiority of their women."
Just my (his) two bits worth...

				.....Elson.....
From: andrews@magstim.njit.edu (John Andrews)
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
Subject: Re: human anatomy graphics?
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:15:02 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <rknjaINN9f@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> chichen@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Chi C Chen) writes:
>Hi!
>I have been looking for human anatomy related images and graphics in PD. 
>I have tried to use several different regular expressions in searching on 
>several archie servers, but the result is almost nothing. Could any one 
>give me some clues on that? Thank you in advance!
>
>chichen@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

The commercial program BODYWORKS is affordable and allows you to capture its
colorful anatomy graphics to PIC or other files which you can do with as you
please. 

DISCLAIMER: I have played with Bodyworks but have *not* utilized this
feature.... so don't buy it on my word alone!


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Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
From: mcmahon@mayo.edu (Eileen McMahon (Grad Student) )
Subject: Re: RFD for new IMAGE PROCESSING newsgroup
Summary: Image Processing newsgroup
Keywords: images, algorithms
Reply-To: mcmahon@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Foundation
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 18:47:30 GMT

I am a new reader of several existing newsgroups including sci.engr.biomed and comp.dsp.
Although I scan through postings of other topics for the sake of generally expanding my
knowledge base or outlook, my main interest is in image processing.  A newsgroup devoted
to image processing which could include dicsussion of new/old algorithms, 2D dsp, and
maybe listings of anonymous ftp sites where test images are available would be great.

I think that the subject of image processing is big enough and yet of interest to a 
specific subset of readers, so that it warrants its own newsgroup.

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Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed
From: abledsoe@sdf.lonestar.org (Al Bledsoe)
Subject: Re: Non-invasive glucose monitoring by optical absorption
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 03:42:29 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.032939.1747@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> brandon@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Brandon S. Dewberry) writes:
>Hi,
>does anyone know if there is a commercial product which determines
>blood glucose levels using light absorption spectral analysis?
>Like pulse oxymetry, only for glucose rather than O2. 
>
>I've heard a rumor that one is in use in Britain.  The rumor
>stated that it uses laser light.  Take this rumor with a grain
>of salt, though, this device may have been designed
>by the same aliens who put mysterious designs in wheat fields. 
>
>I've read journal reports which imply that glucose absorbs to some extent
>at about 5 different frequencies of light.  Each of these may be stomped
>by some other plasma/RBC constituent.
>
>If anyone has any more info or comment, please post.
>
>PS By the way, I'm not only interested because of research - I have
>a diabetic kid.

In 1987 an article appeared in Appl.Phys. Lett. 51(18), 2 Nov 1987
called 'Measurement of gaseous oxygen using diode laser spectroscopy'
the article describes work from Martin Marietta Laboratories
in Baltimore, Maryland.

I was working for a med instr manufacturer based in England at the
time and tried to get a metabolic analyzer designed around this
principle -- the owner of the company bought Airspec (makers of mass
spectrometers) after my presentation.  Time to jump ship...

I've have always been interested in pursueing this tech -- which is
why I scan this group now and then -- but I have not kept up with
anyone making a commercial success of analyzing oxygen with laser
absorption.  A company named Analox in England made an instr. that 
measured many metabolites such as lactic acid and glucose 
by creating a reagent that would produce measureable oxygen
by a clark PO2 electrode.

Perhaps he's using the same reagents but a different analyzer.
Don't think this would be non-invasive -- but if so, I'm real
interested in what wavelengths, optical path, etc., etc., etc., wow!

abledsoe@sdf.lonestar.org    
Newsgroups: sci.engr.biomed