20 Matching Annotations
  1. May 2019
    1. In McAdams's life story model, identity is not synonymous with the "self' or the "self-concept" or even with "who I am"; rather, it refers to a particular quality or flavoring of people's self-understandings, a way in which the self can be arranged or configured. To the extent that a person's self-understanding is in-tegrated synchronically and diachronically such that it situates him or her into a meaningful psychosocial niche and provides his or her life with some degree of unity and purpose, that person "has" identity.

      identity def

    2. construe both past and future to construct stories that make sense to them and to their audiences, that vivify and integrate life and make it more or less mean-ingful.

      identity is constructed and not factual role of an audience

    3. McAdams (1985, 1993, 1996) has argued that identity it-self takes the form of a story, complete with setting, scenes, character, plot, and theme. In late adolescence and young adulthood, people living in modem societies begin to reconstruct the personal past, perceive the present, and an-ticipate the future in terms of an internalized and evolving self-story, an integrative narrative of self that provides modem life with some modicum of psychosocial unity and purpose.

      Identity description

  2. Feb 2019
    1. K-means clusteranalysis was used to identify six groups of activities such that all activi-ties in each group are associated with similar emotional experiences.

      clustering activities

  3. Oct 2018
    1. Eastern Europe, schol

      In Hungary, the government banned a presentation by the Hungarian Scholars Society, called the success of men and women in computer science based on big data, because it was (partially) about gender issues

    1. ome character sets are limited to one byte per character, where a byte is composed of eight bits, and one bitis a binary value of 0 or 1. Other character sets (such as Unicode, and in particular UTF-8) can use from one tofour bytes to represent a character. In other words, a single Unicode UTF-8 character may actually berepresented by a cohesive sequence of up to 32 digits (0s and 1s). The character is typically the smallest unitof information with digital texts, but it is an atom composed of even smaller particles (and tools canmisguidedly split an atom apart when character encoding mistakes are made)

      hmm okaay, not sure of I get this?

    2. visualizations in mainstream media on the web. The New York Times in particular has produced several richinteractive visualizations of digital texts, including an interface for exploring Ame

      I have seen this and it's really cool

    3. The hundred hours of video uploaded to YouTube everyminute would remain largely inaccessible were it not for text-based searches of the title, description, andother metadata. E

      I wonder if we will ever use any other form of searching more frequently

    1. Relapse rates are high for individuals who join weight loss programmes (Tsai & Wadden, 2005 Tsai, A. G., & Wadden, T. A. (2005). Systematic review: An evaluation of major commercial weight loss programs in the United States. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142(1), 56–66. Retrieved from <GO to ISI>://WOS:000228366200006 doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-142-1-200501040-00012[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]); initiate smoking cessation attempts (Carpenter et al., 2013 Carpenter, M. J., Jardin, B. F., Burris, J. L., Mathew, A. R., Schnoll, R. A., Rigotti, N. A., & Cummings, K. M. (2013). Clinical strategies to enhance the efficacy of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: A review of the literature. Drugs, 73(5), 407–426. doi: 10.1007/s40265-013-0038-y[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]; Hughes, Keely, & Naud, 2004 Hughes, J. R., Keely, J., & Naud, S. (2004). Shape of the relapse curve and long-term abstinence among untreated smokers. Addiction, 99(1), 29–38. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2004.00540.x[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]); try to reduce alcohol consumption (Moos & Moos, 2006 Moos, R. H., & Moos, B. S. (2006). Rates and predictors of relapse after natural and treated remission from alcohol use disorders. Addiction, 101(2), 212–222. doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2006.01310.x[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®], [Google Scholar]) or make attempts to stop sexual risk behaviours

      important info on relapse rates for other behavior

  4. Sep 2018
    1. Yet, because of the social (and economic) capital of Princeton University, the Eviction Lab, and Desmond, media, policy, and academic reporting alike is more likely to pay heed to Eviction Lab data than to that of smaller groups that understand the lay of local displacement lands much better.

      problematic

    1. In situations of total fi nancial panic, they play an indispensable role as lender of last resort— indeed, they are the only public institution capable of averting a total collapse of the economy and society in an emergency.

      lol

    1. On a personal level, the importance of affordability, convenience, and hygiene were echoed as crucial conditions influencing desire to participate in specific sharing practices and business models

      has to do with willingness to participate

    2. to reduce carbon footprints and resource use; to enable increased and equitable access to previously unaffordable goods and services; and to strengthen communities and reduce social isolation. However, a range of deep seated concerns and issues were also raised, highlighting practical, economic and social conditions that would need to be met if the sharing economy is to be viewed as part of an acceptable, feasible and desirable future.

      people recognize benefits