Diego S Maranan

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Do you have any self-funded PhD opportunities at your university in compsci, digital design/art, STS, or media?

As part of my role as an academic administrator at the University of the Philippines Open University, I'm looking for potential PhD opportunities for academic staff in my department. Our...

02 January 2024 3,587 0 View

How can we arrive at estimates on the collateral damage from COVID-19 (e.g, deaths due not to COVID-19 per se but due to lack of access to services)?

For example, is anyone tracking (or modeling) deaths due not to COVID-19 per se but because people do not have access to regular medical services (e.g., dialysis, chemotherapy) to address their...

07 April 2020 7,096 13 View

Affordance, divergent thinking, and improvisation: How do people become McGyvers?

Hi, design research and cognitive science colleagues. I'm looking for theories/frameworks/writings about how we learn about the physical world and how we transfer that knowledge to very unfamiliar...

10 September 2018 3,796 1 View

Can stem cells cross the blood-brain barrier, and what's the evidence so far of their use in treating sensorimotor deficits?

This is more a personal question than one related directly to my research (although i am interested in sensorimotor rehabilitation in general). I have a family member who has hemiplegia because of...

25 May 2018 3,157 5 View

Why do we (or our muscles) "get tense”?

I'm looking for explanations from the points of view of neurophysiology, neuropsychology, and related fields on the question of why people experience a sensation that is colloquially described as...

05 February 2016 1,082 3 View