Shvoong is a website designed for any user to read and write reviews, synopses and summaries about books, movies, websites, etc. Each time a visitor read an article its respective writer earn an amount of money. Shvoong shares 10 percent of its revenues between its users.
The relevance of Shvoong regards that the page provides time-saving Summaries and Short Reviews to their visitors. Shvoong’s concept emphasizes the need for short/summarized pieces of knowledge as solution for the “knowledge explosion” situation.
History
Shvoong was founded in 2005 by Avi Shaked (one of the founders of 888 Holdings) and Avner Avrahami. According to an Alexa.com report regarding Shvoong, it is in the top 3000 most visited sites in the world.
Shvoong has not yet generated so much traffic as other similar sites as HubPages and Squidoo. This page has been emphasized as a world wide source of knowledge because it allows articles in over 34 languages.
Site Structure
Shvoong is a user generated content site. Users, known as Shvoongers, add summaries, reviews or synopses that are posted as individual webpages. Each submitted article has to have at least 100 words of length, while maximum number of words that an article can have is 900. Shvoong supports verious topics, from Books, Internet & Tech, Movies, to more sudential worlds like science, humanities and others.
Shvoong writers can add as many summaries as they want and edit or delete each one of them. To add an article users need to create an account on Shvoong. As happen with most of user generated content sites, users can place links inside their articles as well as tags and categories.
Shvoong shares 10 percent of its total income between its users. Shvoongers can translate articles which are already posted to other languages, and the site shares 5 percent of its total revenues between its translators.
Competitors
HubPages, which is another user generated site which shares its revenue between its users.
Squidoo, which allows users to create content and earn money.
Knol, a user generated site created by Google.
The relevance of Shvoong regards that the page provides time-saving Summaries and Short Reviews to their visitors. Shvoong’s concept emphasizes the need for short/summarized pieces of knowledge as solution for the “knowledge explosion” situation.
History
Shvoong was founded in 2005 by Avi Shaked (one of the founders of 888 Holdings) and Avner Avrahami. According to an Alexa.com report regarding Shvoong, it is in the top 3000 most visited sites in the world.
Shvoong has not yet generated so much traffic as other similar sites as HubPages and Squidoo. This page has been emphasized as a world wide source of knowledge because it allows articles in over 34 languages.
Site Structure
Shvoong is a user generated content site. Users, known as Shvoongers, add summaries, reviews or synopses that are posted as individual webpages. Each submitted article has to have at least 100 words of length, while maximum number of words that an article can have is 900. Shvoong supports verious topics, from Books, Internet & Tech, Movies, to more sudential worlds like science, humanities and others.
Shvoong writers can add as many summaries as they want and edit or delete each one of them. To add an article users need to create an account on Shvoong. As happen with most of user generated content sites, users can place links inside their articles as well as tags and categories.
Shvoong shares 10 percent of its total income between its users. Shvoongers can translate articles which are already posted to other languages, and the site shares 5 percent of its total revenues between its translators.
Competitors
HubPages, which is another user generated site which shares its revenue between its users.
Squidoo, which allows users to create content and earn money.
Knol, a user generated site created by Google.
Adrianne Ahern has a Ph.D in Clinical Psychology with specializations in Counseling and Clinical Psychology. She works specifically with individuals and businesses to help focus their performance and enhance their achievements. Dr. Ahern is also the author of two books.
Education
Ahern received her in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco and her second masters, and eventually a Ph.D, in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. She spent seven years as a psychologist at Scripps Health and Mercy Hospital in San Diego. Dr. Ahern also runs her own private practice.
Career
her career pursuits combine the disciplines of psychology, neurophysiology, and natural healing to bridge the gap between mind, body, and heart. Her work includes fifteen years of clinical work and organizational consulting, including six years at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, CA. Her methods seek to train the brain to think positively and efficiently to achieve greater success. She reaches out to share her strategy through speaking engagements, workshops, her private practice, and her CD's. Adrianne Ahern has written two books that support and expand on her goals to motivate people to reach their optimal potential.
Her first book, Snap Out of it Now!, is a 4-step guide for those who feel out of synch with their lives. Her methods are ideal for people who engage in destructive relationships, allow stress to derail their careers and personal lives, struggle to maintain a diet, and fail under pressure. According to Ken Druck, Ph.D, "Snap Out of It Now! is like a personal GPS for turning your life around. Without one ounce of fat, it's a professional coach in a book written by one of the nation's top performance psychologist."
Her most recent book, Back in Charge!, deal with different facets of life that challenge us on a daily basis. Specifically, Dr. Ahern focuses on improving attitudes towards career, health, and relationships by suggesting that the hardwiring in our brains prevents individuals from achieving optimal success. Tackling issues that range from yoyo diets to financial difficulties to dysfunctional relationships, the book suggests strategies to increase focus, confidence, and energy while reducing negativity.
Bibliography
Snap Out of It Now! ISBN 1-59181-056-6, with a public television special, featuring and expanding the ideas of Snap Out of It Now!. The show offers more ways to remove obstacles that block the path to positivity. The show aired in Spring of 2009.
Back in Charge! ISBN 1-59181-089-2
Education
Ahern received her in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco and her second masters, and eventually a Ph.D, in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology. She spent seven years as a psychologist at Scripps Health and Mercy Hospital in San Diego. Dr. Ahern also runs her own private practice.
Career
her career pursuits combine the disciplines of psychology, neurophysiology, and natural healing to bridge the gap between mind, body, and heart. Her work includes fifteen years of clinical work and organizational consulting, including six years at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla, CA. Her methods seek to train the brain to think positively and efficiently to achieve greater success. She reaches out to share her strategy through speaking engagements, workshops, her private practice, and her CD's. Adrianne Ahern has written two books that support and expand on her goals to motivate people to reach their optimal potential.
Her first book, Snap Out of it Now!, is a 4-step guide for those who feel out of synch with their lives. Her methods are ideal for people who engage in destructive relationships, allow stress to derail their careers and personal lives, struggle to maintain a diet, and fail under pressure. According to Ken Druck, Ph.D, "Snap Out of It Now! is like a personal GPS for turning your life around. Without one ounce of fat, it's a professional coach in a book written by one of the nation's top performance psychologist."
Her most recent book, Back in Charge!, deal with different facets of life that challenge us on a daily basis. Specifically, Dr. Ahern focuses on improving attitudes towards career, health, and relationships by suggesting that the hardwiring in our brains prevents individuals from achieving optimal success. Tackling issues that range from yoyo diets to financial difficulties to dysfunctional relationships, the book suggests strategies to increase focus, confidence, and energy while reducing negativity.
Bibliography
Snap Out of It Now! ISBN 1-59181-056-6, with a public television special, featuring and expanding the ideas of Snap Out of It Now!. The show offers more ways to remove obstacles that block the path to positivity. The show aired in Spring of 2009.
Back in Charge! ISBN 1-59181-089-2
Stacey Marie Kerr, M.D., is a family physician who has provided family-centered childbirth experiences for her patients for more than fifteen years. Also a published author, Dr. Kerr's current work focuses on the fusion of traditional childbirth and Western medicine.
Early life
Beginning her career as a family physician, Dr. Kerr lived on a spiritual community in Tennessee called The Farm. The Farm was known for its midwifery skills. At the time, she was helping, author, Ina May Gaskin collect statistics for her book, Spiritual Midwifery. This book showed that the women on The Farm who were undergoing natural childbirth had very low complication rates, especially seen in the low number of c-sections. Overall, The Farm yielded remarkably healthy babies. Dr. Kerr has had two children using natural childbirth, one of them being born on The Farm
Career
Among Dr. Kerr's many career accomplishments were her roles in medical societies, including two years as state chair of the Public Outreach Committee for the California Academy of Family Physicians and two years as chair of the credentialing committee at her local hospital. Dr. Kerr has also been published in medical journals, such as, California Family Physician, Sonoma Medicine, and JAMA. She also writes for a monthly medical column called the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Drawing on her experiences with integrative childbirth, Dr. Kerr has recently written a book, Homebirth in the Hospital, suggesting the combination of traditional childbirth and advanced Western medicine. Discouraging the notion that women have to make a choice between supportive homebirths and the technology offered by hospitals, the book contains guidelines for planning ideal birthing situations.
Education
Stacey Marie Kerr graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1971 with a BS and a credential in elementary and special education. She worked with emotionally disturbed adolescents at Fulton State Hospital in the 1970s. Towards the end of the 70's she began working on The Farm. In 1989, Dr. Kerr graduated with an M.D from the University of California, Davis, Medical School. She completed her residency and earned her Board Certification in Family Medicine in 1992.
Bibliography
Homebirth in the Hospital ISBN 978-1-59181-077-3
Spiritual Midwifery ISBN 978-1-57067-104-3
Early life
Beginning her career as a family physician, Dr. Kerr lived on a spiritual community in Tennessee called The Farm. The Farm was known for its midwifery skills. At the time, she was helping, author, Ina May Gaskin collect statistics for her book, Spiritual Midwifery. This book showed that the women on The Farm who were undergoing natural childbirth had very low complication rates, especially seen in the low number of c-sections. Overall, The Farm yielded remarkably healthy babies. Dr. Kerr has had two children using natural childbirth, one of them being born on The Farm
Career
Among Dr. Kerr's many career accomplishments were her roles in medical societies, including two years as state chair of the Public Outreach Committee for the California Academy of Family Physicians and two years as chair of the credentialing committee at her local hospital. Dr. Kerr has also been published in medical journals, such as, California Family Physician, Sonoma Medicine, and JAMA. She also writes for a monthly medical column called the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Drawing on her experiences with integrative childbirth, Dr. Kerr has recently written a book, Homebirth in the Hospital, suggesting the combination of traditional childbirth and advanced Western medicine. Discouraging the notion that women have to make a choice between supportive homebirths and the technology offered by hospitals, the book contains guidelines for planning ideal birthing situations.
Education
Stacey Marie Kerr graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia, in 1971 with a BS and a credential in elementary and special education. She worked with emotionally disturbed adolescents at Fulton State Hospital in the 1970s. Towards the end of the 70's she began working on The Farm. In 1989, Dr. Kerr graduated with an M.D from the University of California, Davis, Medical School. She completed her residency and earned her Board Certification in Family Medicine in 1992.
Bibliography
Homebirth in the Hospital ISBN 978-1-59181-077-3
Spiritual Midwifery ISBN 978-1-57067-104-3
University College Dublin's BioMOBIUS Research Platform is an open shareable software and hardware system that claims to support the rapid creation of technology solutions for biomedical research and more, using a graphical development environment. The BioMOBIUS research platform is built on the software platform, an open software platform developed by InfoMus Lab at the University of Genoa for research on multimodal interfaces, non-verbal expressive gesture and movement analysis and recognition, and it is applied in a number of research environments and applications, including music, performing arts, cultural and edutainment applications.
Building on the Eyesweb environment the BioMOBIUS research platform augments it to help it target biomedical applications. The additions includes:
* A Graphical user interface designer to add user interfaces to applications
* support for SHIMMER wireless physiological and kinematic sensors.
* image processing and data analysis components
* data visualisation capabilities
* Support documentation and sample tutorials
* portable application kernel
One of the goals of the platform is to aid less technical users such as Therapists, Clinicians develop biomedical data acquisition and signal processing applications. It also has interfaces to allow more technical users such as Biomedical signal process engineers and platform development engineers augment the platform.
Building on the Eyesweb environment the BioMOBIUS research platform augments it to help it target biomedical applications. The additions includes:
* A Graphical user interface designer to add user interfaces to applications
* support for SHIMMER wireless physiological and kinematic sensors.
* image processing and data analysis components
* data visualisation capabilities
* Support documentation and sample tutorials
* portable application kernel
One of the goals of the platform is to aid less technical users such as Therapists, Clinicians develop biomedical data acquisition and signal processing applications. It also has interfaces to allow more technical users such as Biomedical signal process engineers and platform development engineers augment the platform.