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Record 1 2013-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychometry and Psychotechnology
  • Cognitive Psychology
CONT

To see what Fechner's Scale of Sensation would be like for loudness, for example, we may think of the scale as a ladder. Now let us imagine an experiment. Suppose I turn on a very faint sound, so faint that you cannot hear it. I increase its intensity until it stands just at your absolute threshold, where you can barely hear it. That gives us the first step on the ladder. I now increase the intensity until you say yes, that is louder—louder by a JND [just noticeable difference], which gives us the next step on the ladder.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychométrie et psychotechnique
  • Psychologie cognitive
CONT

Échelle de Fechner. Échelle de mesure des sensations élémentaires établie en faisant estimer des différences justes perceptibles entre deux stimulus semblables. (En ordonnant les échelons successifs ainsi observés, on obtient une échelle unidimensionnelle. Fechner a postulé que les échelons ainsi définis correspondent à une grandeur subjective constante).

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electrical Circuits and Circuit Breakers
CONT

Is there some way to get a power supply to sink current? Yes there is! You can use a circuit called a shunt regulator.... Note that instead of current going through a transistor to get to the output, the current flows through a resistor to the output. By Ohm's Law, there is going to be a voltage drop across the resistor. The job of the transistor is to conduct just the right amount of current to ground so that the output voltage is at the set value.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Circuits électriques et coupe-circuits

Spanish

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Record 3 1998-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Communication
CONT

The Western notion of getting right to the point is next to impossible in Japanese. Yes, you can learn the words for "What do you think of my widgets, "but you cannot force your Japanese contacts to reply in a straightforward manner.... In other words, learn Japanese and learn the gentle art of non-speak, so essential to doing business in Japan.(Financial Times, 25 May 1985, in Vocable no 22, 4 Jul. 1985, p. 8.).

Key term(s)
  • innuendo

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la communication
Key term(s)
  • non-dire
  • non-dit
  • allusion

Spanish

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