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The Berkeley Innovation Index: A Quantitative Approach to Measure, Track and Forecast Innovation Capability Within Individuals and Organizations
2018
Innovation and entrepreneurship are essential processes for human development, market growth, and technological breakthroughs, and it is vital for economic growth. Despite its importance, innovation is inherently difficult to measure and hence it is almost impossible for an individual or organization to know how they can improve their innovation output or claim that they are great at innovation. This paper presents a novel approach to measure and quantify innovation, called the Berkeley Innovation Index (BII). The BII characterizes and measures innovation capability of an individual or an organization. It builds on the hypothesis that innovation performance depends on the people, culture, a…
Coming to Know Epicurus’ Truth: Distributed Cognition in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura
2020
Until recently, Descartes' idea that the human mind is, by definition, a non-extended entity (res cogitans, non extensa), enclosed in the body but constitutionally different from common bodily and external realities, found wide acceptance among students of cognitive sciences. But in the past few years the barriers between outer and inner worlds have begun to blur, projecting the process of cognition as a complex distributed phenomenon. According to the so-called distributed cognition thesis (and its more “radical” version, the extended mind hypothesis), “the thinker in this world is a very special medium that can provide coordination among many structured media – some internal, some externa…
Mindfulness, perceived stress, and subjective well-being: a correlational study in primary care health professionals
2015
Background Primary health care professionals (PHPs) usually report high levels of distress and burnout symptoms related to job strain. Mindfulness, defined as non-judgmental-present-moment awareness, seems to be a moderator in the causal association between life stressors and well-being. This study aimed to verify correlations among self-reported mindfulness, perceived stress (PS), and subjective well-being (SW) in Brazilian PHPs. Methods We performed a correlational cross-sectional study in a purposive sample of Brazilian PHPs (physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, and community health workers), working in community-oriented primary care programs (known locally as “Family Health Programs…
Evolving Brains, Evolving Minds
2011
Supernatural Agents in Human Minds: Brain Mechanisms and Triggering Stimuli
2011
Smart Tools for Academic Information Seeking
2016
Systematic information seeking is an essential part of academic work. Research and information seeking go hand in hand, and both need planning. In the academic world you can hardly avoid the research plan, but you probably won’t hear that much about the information seeking plan. The information seeking plan guides you through the research process from the first sparks of an idea to the last dot in the bibliography from the point of view of the often invisible process of systematic information seeking.Systematic Information Seeking Framework designed in the Jyväskylä University Library has its roots in Carol Kuhlthau's Guided Inquiry Design Process. Our model, designed for more contextual ad…
Tietokoneavusteinen tunneanalyysi : uusi näkökulma merkitykselliseen dialogiin
2014
Tutkimuksemme tavoitteena oli tarkastella tietokoneavusteisen tunneanalyysin mahdollisuuksia ja rajoitteita osana “The Relational Mind in Events of Change in Multi-actor Therapeutic Dialog” -tutkimusprojektia. Tunneanalyysissa käytimme Facereader -kasvojentunnistusohjelmistoa, jolla analysoimme nelinkeskisestä terapeuttisesta tilanteesta suoraan kuvattua videomateriaalia. Aiemmin tietokoneavusteista tunneanalyysia on hyödynnetty tutkimusprojektissa vain terapian jälkihaastattelussa. Keskityimme analyysissa terapiaistunnon toiseen asiakkaaseen, sekä erityisesti tämän relationaalisiin hymyhetkiin suhteessa muihin terapiatilanteessa oleviin henkilöihin. Luokittelimme hymyhetket niiden ilmiasun…
Factorial validity and invariance analysis of the five items version of Mindful Awareness Attention Scale in older adults
2020
Objective: Mindfulness or the full attention state is a factor that contributes to the successful process of aging. This study aims to evaluate the evidence of validity, on the basis of the internal structure, convergent and discriminant validity, reliability and factorial invariance across gender, for the five items Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS-5) within a sample of older adults. Methods: The participants were 323 Peruvian older adults, consisting of 160 women and 163 men, whose average ages were 68.58 (S.D = 7.23) and 68.91 years (S.D = 7.12), respectively. In addition to the MAAS-5, the Satisfaction with Life Scale and the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 were administered. Resu…
Freud and the Philosophy: precedents of a fundamental ambivalence.
2021
La relación del psicoanálisis con la filosofía debe tener en cuenta el propio rechazo que Freud declaró contra todo intento de reducir la psicología al conocimiento de los fenómenos de la conciencia, que de modo temprano e insistente vinculó a la noción idealista de “cosmovisión” (Weltanschauung). Sin embargo, un seguimiento minucioso de las principales tendencias filosóficas que se daban en su contexto muestra el verdadero lugar de privilegio que corresponde al pensamiento filosófico de cara a la configuración identitaria del psicoanálisis como disciplina (y de su objeto de estudio: el inconsciente), con un marco epistemológico propio que bebe de la con-fluencia ideológica que el neopositi…
An open path for gender equality in research: When women scientists question the state of science and the institutions embrace the criticism
2016
The institutionalisation of equality policy in science, both at the national and the European scale, should facilitate progress towards equality in a space that wants to consider itself merit (and ability) driven. But discriminatory practices, both conscious and unconscious, direct or indirect, leave women out of many of the positions that they should occupy according to their accomplishments and capabilities. Many scientific institutions and their professionals still do not understand that if gender equality is only formally achieved and actual compliance is not monitored, they will lose part of the talent they are trying to cultivate.