Is Consciousness binary? Or is there a spectrum of consciousness rather than a binary approach? Do you have suggestions for good consciousness tests?

Dear Researchers, in the tests of consciousness of animals that I heard about, the result always was either "yes" or "no". I have been wondering if there is any scale-like measure of...

07 August 2019 9,145 2 View

Who knows a Query for Facebook's "Graph API" to analyze tenses used in posts/messages?

I would like to find out how much of the posts and/or messages are about presence, future and past. Any ideas? Alternatives (WhatsApp, other analyzing tools,...) are welcome, too!

07 August 2015 5,397 0 View

Leisure, Time & Social Media?

For my current dissertation I am conducting an innovative study on Leisure Time & Social Media. I still need lots of participants (especially from Hannover, but also the rest of the world). I...

06 July 2015 9,407 2 View

What are the negative social impacts of ICT?

Health, Polatisation, Sociability, Manipulation, Addiction etc. Please include references and case studies where possible!

01 February 2015 7,862 2 View

Who wants to join our multi-disciplinary project analyzing the impact of technology? All backgrounds and experience levels welcome!

Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science and a lot of other disciplines should be included! The motive is to analyze where we are going in an optimistic way, without exaggerating pros or cons...

01 February 2014 5,510 21 View

Pros and Cons of ICT development. What are Social Bugs of Technology? What has changed or will change in individuals and society due to technology?

I am trying to get a big picture of where we as individuals and as a society are going. Coming from the technological side, I am not interested in condemning technology as a total, but rather...

31 December 2013 152 7 View

Why does reflection matter? What is happening in our brains when we let neurons fire without a trigger from the outside?

The big question I am trying to solve is what effects it will cause, if your society tends to use every free minute for work, entertainment or intensive workouts. I refer to seeing people...

31 December 2013 281 8 View

Why does Max Eyth say that all Knowledge Societies died after reaching their highest Knowledge status?

Eyth is decalring this in his work "Wort und Werkzeug" from around 1900 and I am actually studying how we can become an even better Knowledge Society.. Does any of you know something on this topic?

10 November 2012 6,162 2 View

Does the use of innovative Technologies lead to Burnout, etc.?

10 November 2012 923 5 View

How to improve Mental Condition through Environment at Work?

What is needed to guarantee healthy work conditions regarding mental aspects? What can actual Neuroscience tell us about ideal working conditions?

10 November 2012 7,282 6 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

How climate change will influences human and animal behavioral change?

The role of climate change influencing the human behavior as well as economics interest

01 June 2021 0 0 View

flexibility of polymers chain

effect of double bond on the flexibility of polymers

07 April 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

Formulation of polymer color flakes

I am writing to request some information for making polymer color flakes. I would appreciate the help.

17 March 2021 0 0 View

How to compare two groups with only two measurements?

Hiiiii everyone! I have an enquiry on statistical analysis. I was looking for many forum and it's still cannot solve my problem. I want to compare means of two groups of data but only with two...

03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence?

I am on the lookout for the Enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (Aequorea victoria) DNA sequence. Does anyone know where I can find it? Thank you in advance

03 March 2021 3,568 1 View

What kind of fluid could I use for a pitfall trap that also does not invalidate molecular testing?

Hi, I want to start testing pitfall trap to obtain ants samples, but I need to conduct molecular analysis on those insects. So, what kind of fluid can I use? Ethanol expires too early and I need...

03 March 2021 5,978 5 View