Department of Psychology Science and Technology Center Rider University

Posted on 22. Mar, 2010 by admin in Culture, Education in Science

This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call “the psychology of cyberspace” – or simply “CYBERPSYCHOLOGY.” Continually being revised and expanded, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. See the article index Which indicates the articles most recently added and revised. (more…)

Stonehenge: unearthing a mystery

Posted on 13. Feb, 2010 by in Culture, Experiments & Research, Featured, Human Biology

More than 4,000 years ago, the people of the Neolithic period decided to build a massive monument using earth, timber and eventually, stones, placing it high on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England — about 137 kilometers southwest of London. (more…)

How to Write a Report on a Biography?

Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by admin in Culture, Educational Resources

You’d rather e-mail your friends or watch the latest episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but your teacher wants you to read a biography and write a report. How can you make it interesting? (more…)

First Year Survival Guide

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by admin in Culture, Educational Resources

“Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” That’s what Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz after her house crash-landed into Munchkinville. You’ll find yourself saying the same thing whether you’re away at school for the first time or entering the strange new world of graduate school. (more…)

Save It in a Scrapbook

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by admin in Culture, Educational Resources

Do you have collections of photos and other souvenirs tucked away in boxes? Why not organize them in a scrapbook? Scrapbooks are a great way to save keepsakes and remember a special time of your life. (more…)

How to Write a Top-Notch Current-Event Essay

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by admin in Culture, Educational Resources

Your teacher has given you a tough assignment: picking a current event and writing an essay about it. You’re wracking your brain–”How do I pick a topic? And how do I decide what to say in my essay?” (more…)

Grades K-2 Social Studies Framework

Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by admin in Educational Resources, Human Biology, Social

The content emphasis for grades Kindergarten through two provides students with the opportunity to learn about themselves, their immediate surroundings, and how events of the past affect the present. Opportunities are also provided for children to understand and appreciate differences between themselves and others. Content is organized by strands (more…)

The general director of Cultural Property

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by admin in Culture

Speaking to journalists, the general director of Cultural Property, Guadalupe Ruiz, said that they are “great pieces of Spanish and Andalusian Baroque”, being an “opportunity” that “the Institute has been restored,” because for the itself is “a privilege and an honor” to have worked with carvings of “great artist Alonso Cano,” adding they had “an assurance that the restoration was to be respectful” and that such works can be seen that there is a “restoration well done. ”

Also, Ruiz said the sculpture of Adam and Eve were in the transverse arch of the Cathedral of Granada, while the busts of the Virgin of Bethlehem and St. Paul were in the Cathedral Museum. These images will be returned to the temple after having been restored for a period of approximately 22 months since, especially the first, “needed urgent intervention in terms of support for the separation of parts” among other reasons, as noted one of his restorative, Maria Teresa Real.

Thus, the restoration of these busts expressed that they “had a very mixed condition,” so they had to act upon “the particular needs of each.” Thus, highlighted the works of Adam and Eve, which has been brought to light a “unique polychrome” and “the same in the two heads after removing previous interruptions and different layers that obscured the original colors “, stressing that they could” save the original color, which helps unify the sculptural.

In this line, said Ruiz, the size of St. Paul has followed the same process, as has been obtained through various techniques the original color, as happened with the Virgin of Bethlehem, which is has made “a clean surface. In addition, a preventive manner, has carried out a sculpture disinsection make some alterations caused by insect borers.

BUSTS OF ADAM AND EVE
Made by Alonso Cano to 1666, remained unfinished at his death, so that the polychrome was carried out in 1676 his pupil, Juan Velez de Ulloa. The cathedral chapter of Granada acquired the estate of the artist, being documented from the eighteenth century its location on the site now occupied in the Cathedral, the transverse arch of the chancel.
In these busts is evident, “evidently, the genius of Alonso Cano, and even without complete its polychromy, transmitted through volumes of his greatness and his keen modeling expressive intention” so that as the said Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Historico, “represent the culmination of the production material of this artist, one of the best figures of Andalusian Baroque.

OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM
With this small image – 45 inches – conducted in 1664 to replace the teacher Immaculate had carved Lectern for the auction of the Cathedral of Granada, Cano follows the outline sketch of his last Immaculate although with some variations. Intervention in the IAPH has been focused on conservative action and in the realization of a uniform cleaning of the work, which had been submitted prior to cleaning uneven. Furthermore, it has returned with polychromy in some areas which had experienced losses of paint.

BUST OF SAN PABLO
Held on the last leg of the artist around the years 1660 and 1665, is preserved in the Museo de la Catedral de Granada. This is an absolute masterpiece of Cano, which “is distancing itself from its usual intimate and concentrated forms” to provide a sculpture – 46 inches – “extrovert” features tormented, strong expression and full beard base wrought of “winding and long locks of hair,” imagers effect previously tested as Andres de Ocampo, recalling his style “the Moses of Michelangelo’s immortal.”

Economists who have developed this research are interested in how to avoid war

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by admin in News, Social

The transfer of resources, through trade, gifts or grants, for example, could prevent up to nine out of ten wars in some kind of war, according to a study by researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).Economists who have developed this research are interested in how to avoid war when there is a body that ensures compliance with peace treaties like the UN. In this case, all countries can do is to transfer resources (through trade agreements, gifts, grants, etc..) And hope that once made this transfer, no one has incentives to start a conflict. “We found that when wars are due to unequal resources in the vast majority of cases, transfers to avoid war,” explains Luis Corchón professor, Department of Economics UC3M, which has published the study with Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Carmen Bevia, in Games and Economic Behavior, the journal in economic theory has a greater impact in the Social Sciences Citation Index, as reported last year.

To give an idea of how well it works this mechanism, researchers have conducted a series of scenarios that calculate the probability of occurrence of a war. “Without transfer – details – is 38.6 percent, whereas transfers decreases to 4.6 percent, as can be deduced that eliminates transfers 88 per cent of disputes,” they conclude. In other types of war, however, this mechanism is not as useful. For example, when the probability of winning the war does not depend almost no resources, poor incentives to attack the country are so great that there is no way to make it peaceful, they say. Or, conversely, when the odds of winning the war are heavily dependent on resources, there is no way to stop the attack the most powerful country. “In short – resume Corchón Professor – our work sets limits on the policies of appeasement and illustrates that in many cases it is necessary to have a third power to impose peace, because the negotiations between the countries in the field of cross can stop the aggression “.

Types of war
The study authors studied the war from the point of view of rational decision, regardless of outside elements into economic theory and that may be important in understanding its origin, such as religion, ethnic conflicts or emotional or historical reasons. In this context, they found that there are three fundamental causes of armed conflict: resource inequality, that the outcome of war is not very dependent on the material and military superiority of the economically most powerful country. In the first two cases its usually gives the paradox that the poorest countries are those that start the war, despite the probability that the gain is relatively small. This trend of relatively weak countries to start wars and lose them as was noted by Adam Smith and Carl von Clausewitz and is known as the paradox of the contests between unequal countries ( “uneven contenders paradox”), the researchers note.

This study is part of a research program on the impact and origins of conflict over resource allocation. The authors analyze the economic causes of conflict and suggest ways to avoid them. “If you do not take into account emotional factors, ethnic or religious strife are many that can be explained simply as movements of rational actors pursuing their own interests, essentially material, as resources, mines, people, fertile land … – Notes Luis Corchón -. The greatest achievement of this theory of the contests – ongoing – is to make us understand that a society in which all actors are rational can be self-defeating. “

In short: a musical petition for Copenhagen

Posted on 17. Oct, 2009 by admin in Culture

Kofi Annan himself has launched a petition calling for music to take account of “climate justice” at the Copenhagen conference. Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary, is now president of the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization seeking to raise awareness about the challenges and problems that will make climate change. In this context it has launched a petition in world music for an agreement on “climate justice” at the UN Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen. Beds Are Burning is a cover of a song by Midnight Oil, as amended for the occasion by the Australian group itself.The petition for a new genre has been produced by The Hours and gathers 60 artists include: Andrew Wyatt, Aurelia Chaplin, Charlie Winston, Eric Serra, Fergie, Guillaume Canet, Heidy Allende, Jamie Burke, Jet Li, Lilly Allen, Marion Cotillard Mark Ronson, Milla Jovovich, Scorpions, Vincent Perez and Yannick Noah.
To participate, simply visit the site and download the free title: the name of each person performing a download is automatically added to the list.