People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: subjective age across the lifespan.

Subjective age--the age people think of themselves asbeing--is measured in a representative Danish sample of 1,470 adults between 20 and 97 years of age through personal, in-home interviews. On the average, adults younger than 25 have older subjective ages, and those older than 25 have younger subjective ages, favoring a lifespan-developmental view over an age-denial view of subjective age. When the discrepancy between subjective and chronological age is calculated as a proportion of chronological age, no increase is seen after age 40; older respondents feel 20% younger than their actual age. Demographic variables (gender, income, and education) account for very little variance in subjective age.

Distribution of important and word-cued autobiographical memories in 20-, 35-, and 70-year-old adults.

For word-cued autobiographical memories, older adults had an increase, or bump, from the ages 10 to 30. All age groups had fewer memories from childhood than from other years and a power-function retention for memories from the most recent 10 years. There were no consistent differences in reaction times and rating scale responses across decades. Concrete words cued older memories, but no property of the cues predicted which memories would come from the bump. The 5 most important memories given by 20- and 35-year-old participants were distributed similarly to their word-cued memories, but those given by 70-year-old participants came mostly from the single 20-to-30 decade. No theory fully accounts for the bump.

Investigação das habilidades e competências estatísticas de estudantes recém-ingressos em uma universidade pública brasileira

Educadores e pesquisadores, em âmbito internacional, vêm consolidando um campo de estudo a Educação Estatística. Suas principais discussões elucidam a importância da Estatística nas diversas áreas de conhecimento, em contraste à incompreensão de seu ensino descontextualizado e focado em cálculos. Para retratar essa realidade delineou-se essa pesquisa, com objetivo de identificar as habilidades e competências, atinentes ao Letramento Estatístico. Aplicou-se um instrumento com 20 itens em uma amostra de 200 estudantes. Ao realizar a análise de dados constatou-se que apresentaram mais habilidades para fazer inferências a partir de informações expressas em gráficos e para calcular medidas estatísticas. Já suas habilidades para resolver situações problemas e interpretar medidas estatísticas, são menores. A partir dessa pequisa, pode-se observar que as competências esperadas ainda não são plenamente contempladas, justificando a continuidade das pesquisas a fim de diagnosticar e nortear ações na Educação Estatística.

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Por quinta vez puso cuatro motas de tinta en el papel, les puso nombres (A, B, C, D) y los unió con segmentos para formar un cuadrilátero. Luego señaló los puntos medios de sus cuatro lados y los conectó formando otro cuadrilátero (P, Q, R, S). Ahí estaba el problema. Ese cuadrilátero interior siempre resultaba ser un paralelogramo pusiera como pusiera los cuatro puntos originales. ¿Acaso había orden en el caos? Por un momento pensó que quizá había truco, que tal vez sucedía así porque la gente ponía los puntos de formas similares. Pero ya había probado configuraciones muy raras, incluso dejó que los segmentos del cuadrilátero ABCD se interceptasen, y siempre obtenía idéntico resultado. No, lo que parece cumplirse para cualquier caso no es ningún truco, sino un teorema que demostrar.

A case based reasoning system capturing fire modelling expertise

This paper describes the architecture of the case based reasoning (CBR) component of Smartfire, a fire field modelling tool for use by members of the Fire Safety Engineering community who are not expert in modelling techniques. The CBR system captures the qualitative reasoning of an experienced modeller in the assessment of room geometries so as to set up the important initial parameters of the problem. The system relies on two important reasoning principles obtained from the expert: 1) there is a natural hierarchical retrieval mechanism which may be employed; and 2) much of the reasoning on a qualitative level is linear in nature, although the computational solution of the problem is non-linear. The paper describes the qualitative representation of geometric room information on which the system is based, and the principles on which the CBR system operates.

Marine biodiversity and climate change: assessing and predicting the influence of climatic change using intertidal rocky shore biota. Occasional Publication of the Marine Biological Association 20

In the last 60 years climate change has altered the distribution and abundance of many seashore species. Below is a summary of the findings of this project. The MarClim project was a four year multi-partner funded project created to investigate the effects of climatic warming on marine biodiversity. In particular the project aimed to use intertidal species, whose abundances had been shown to fluctuate with changes in climatic conditions, as indicator species of likely responses of species not only on rocky shores, but also those found offshore. The project used historic time series data, from in some cases the 1950s onwards, and contemporary data collected as part of the MarClim project (2001-2005), to provide evidence of changes in the abundance, range and population structure of intertidal species and relate these changes to recent rapid climatic warming. In particular quantitative counts of barnacles, limpets and trochids were made as well as semi-quantitative surveys of up to 56 intertidal taxa.Historic and contemporary data informed experiments to understand the mechanisms behind these changes and models to predict future species ranges and abundances.