Category «Knowledge Management»

It’s decided: decisive people no more accurate than self-doubters

Source, PLOS One, Published: June 1, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268501, Wojciech Zajkowski, Maksymilian Bielecki, Magdalena Marszał-Wiśniewska: Are you confident enough to act? Individual differences in action control are associated with post-decisional metacognitive bias – “The art of making good choices and being consistent in executing them is essential for having a successful and fulfilling life. Individual differences …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

We’ve Known How To Prevent A School Shooting for More Than 20 Years

FiveThirtyEight: “…Marisa Randazzo’s and Mary Ellen O’Toole’s parallel reports came to remarkably similar conclusions….So how do we spot the ones who are planning an attack at a school? The studies she and O’Toole published years ago showed that, like people planning to attack the president, would-be school shooters don’t keep their plans to themselves. They …

Subjects: Health Care, Knowledge Management

Legal Implications of a Ubiquitous Metaverse and a Web3 Future

Garon, Jon M., Legal Implications of a Ubiquitous Metaverse and a Web3 Future (January 3, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4002551 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4002551 “The metaverse is understood to be an immersive virtual world serving as the locus for all forms of work, education, and entertainment experiences. Depicted in books, movies, and games, the metaverse has the …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Food Contact Chemicals database (FCCdb)

Food Packaging Forum: “Food contact materials (FCMs) are used to make food contact articles (FCAs) that come into contact with food and beverages during, for example, processing, storing, packaging, or consumption. The chemicals within these FCMs and FCAs are known as food contact chemicals (FCCs), and they can contaminate food when they migrate from the …

Subjects: Food and Nutrition, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Subak launches ‘Google of climate data’ portal

British Business Focus: “Global tech accelerator Subak today launches the Data Catalogue – a curated online portal connecting shared climate datasets around the world to accelerate climate impact. An extension of Subak’s core ethos of sharing data to accelerate climate impact, the Data Catalogue has been built to make climate data reliable and accessible for academics, analysts, policymakers and …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Using Artificial Intelligence in the Law Review Submissions Process

Simon, Brenda M., Using Artificial Intelligence in the Law Review Submissions Process (May 19, 2022). UC Davis Law Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4113550 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4113550 “The use of artificial intelligence to help editors examine law review submissions may provide a way to improve an overburdened system. This Article is the first to explore the …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How Did Cartographers Create World Maps before Airplanes and Satellites? An Introduction

“Regular readers of Open Culture know a thing or two about maps if they’ve paid attention to our posts on the history of cartography, the evolution of world maps (and why they are all wrong), and the many digital collections of historical maps from all over the world. What does the seven and a half-minute …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

How to Set Up Search Alerts in Google Scholar

MakeUseOf: “Email alerts are a useful tool to use to stay updated with new content. Even though annoying promotional emails might make alerts seem like something to avoid, there are times when you might want to be alerted on the latest information. If you love to consume academic content, and you don’t want to miss …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Getting Live Transcription Working with Zoom

LIBRARIAN.NET / JESSAMYN – Getting Live Transcription Working with Zoom: “From a local hearing impaired pal: Can you help the library to get captions on Zoom? They’ve been trying to figure it out for a couple of months now. I asked them to have you help them, but I don’t think they’ve tried that. Live …

Subjects: E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management

Language matters when Googling controversial people

Via LLRX – Language matters when Googling controversial people – Ahmed Al-Rawi, Assistant Professor, News, Social Media, and Public Communication, Simon Fraser University – identifies and explains how features of search engine autocomplete functions enables users to find fast answers to their questions or queries. However, autocomplete search functions are based on ambiguous algorithms that …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

The Practice of People Law

Via LLRX – The Practice of People Law – Jim Calloway is the Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association’s Management Assistance Program. He informs us about the range of legal services delivered by what have been designated as “primary-care lawyers.” From Calloway’s perspective, there is people law, and there is business/corporate law. Over the years, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research

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