Word: processing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that, Dean K. Whitla, director of the office of instructional research and evaluation, and the group helping him with the study, broke down the hiring process into four steps and studied each to determine where minorities are getting bumped. Those steps are advertising the opening in professional journals and sending letters to department chairmen at other universities asking them to notify graduates; compiling a long list--15 to 144 names--of applicants; selecting the five to seven most promising candidates from that long list; and making offers...
...study--which looked in detail at seven departments--indicates that the problem for minorities comes not at the end of the process, when departments make their choices, but at the beginning, when would-be minority applicants make theirs. "The results for minorities were patently clear," the report concludes. "It was rare, very rare, for a minority person to be found even on the long list of junior faculty search committees." In fact, in the 84 searches conducted by the seven departments under study, only 39 out of more than 10,000 applicants on the long lists were minorities, the report...
...brain, we can measure the electrical signal as it passes along a single nerve cell--the impulse in the eye fires before the impulse in the brain." Hobson adds that because all mammals have roughly the same brain structure, it is fair to assume the basic REM process works the same in humans and cats...
...people objected to our philosophical views--they thought we were saying that dreams don't mean anything. This isn't true. Our theory does not exclude psychological interpretation of dreams--it states that the basic process of dreaming is physiological," he adds...
...wholly perfunctory attachment to the procedures of humane government often defines authoritarian regimes. The pseudo-legalistic cant of their officials usually reveals nothing so much as a cynical, even barbaric disregard for the substance of a civilized legal system. Ambassador Barros' attempt to drape the mantle of due process over his regime has confirmed this dismaying truth...