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VOTE TODAY! With your help, Supply Packages for Kids Entering Foster Care could win a $25k grant from State Farm Neighborhood Assist. Vote upto 10x a day through 8/23! #SFNeighborhoodAssist
City, State: Opelika, AL Type of Cause: Community Development Submitted By: Michael Melnick Organization: BigHouse Foundation To purchase and deliver new clothing and other supplies for kids entering foster care. Most kids who enter foster care have very few belongings such as clothes and personal items. This leaves social workers and foster parents scrambling to find the items necessary to get children through the first few hours and days of their foster care placement.
Boosting Learning Efficacy with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Intact and Brain-Damaged Humans
Featured ArticleResearch Articles, Behavioral/Cognitive Florian Herpich, Michael D. Melnick, Sara Agosta, Krystel R. Huxlin, Duje Tadin and Lorella Battelli Journal of Neuroscience 10 July 2019, 39 (28) 5551-5561; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3248-18.2019 Abstract Numerous behavioral studies have shown that visual function can improve with training, although perceptual refinements generally require weeks to months of training to attain.
Spatial suppression promotes rapid figure-ground segmentation of moving objects
Abstract Segregation of objects from their backgrounds is a fundamental visual function and one that is particularly effective when objects are in motion. Theoretically, suppressive center-surround mechanisms are well suited for accomplishing motion segregation. This longstanding hypothesis, however, has received limited empirical support.
Disaster Due To Disastrous Design
“Human error” is something we hear about a lot when testing software. It’s an all too-easy excuse to make that puts no onus on the designer of the system, whose job it is to anticipate and prevent these errors from happening. Good system design and usability are especially important in high-leverage situations such as this one, and can save users and system stakeholders from potentially far-reaching consequences.
Interruptive Interstitials: Time to Cease & Desist
Google is now downgrading website pages within organic search results that contain content that is obscured by automatically loaded interstitials. As pharma marketers we need to be proactive about finding new solutions that can meet the requirements of site visitors, search engines AND medical/legal/regulatory teams. Let's discuss how.
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