Friday, January 19, 2007

Reliability of disclosure forms of authors' contributions "Our study confirmed that reports about others' behaviours, such as proxy reports on the contributions of one's coauthors, were not an accurate way of assessing authorship. As has been shown by well-controlled experimental psychological observations,5 proxy reports about behaviours of others are burdened by a subjective inference process in estimating behaviour." 6:39:48 PM      Google It!.

Folic acid boosts minds of over-50s, study finds. Absent-mindedness in the over-50s is significantly improved when people take folic acid supplements, according to a large study reported in today's Lancet. Short-term memory, mental agility and verbal fluency tests were all better among people wh... [KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News] 5:37:41 PM      Google It!.

Investigating Online Office Suites. jcatcw writes "Computerworld reviewed four online office suites [~] Ajax13, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, ThinkFree Online and Zoho Office Suite. None has all the applications and features of Microsoft Office, but if you're looking for the core office applications in an access-anywhere format, at least two were surprisingly sophisticated. The article weighs the ability to save files to a centralized server quite heavily in its ranking. The winner is ThinkFree Office because it provides the most sophisticated features and has the best Microsoft Office compatibility. Zoho's suite is the second choice."[Slashdot] 5:03:43 PM      Google It!.