11 Productivity Hacks from Successful Entrepreneurs

11 Productivity Hacks from Successful Entrepreneurs. It is very interesting. I think the most important tip is number seven.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930230000165

Capes oferece bolsas na Espanha para estudantes de baixa renda

"Capes vai selecionar estudantes de baixa renda de acordo com os critérios do ProUni para serem contemplados com bolsas de estudo para graduação completa na Universidade de Salamanca, na Espanha. Confira" em :

http://noticias.universia.com.br/mobilidade-academica/noticia/2014/01/24/1077505/capes-oferece-bolsas-na-espanha-estudantes-baixa-renda.html

8 reasons I rejected your article

"A journal editor reveals the top reasons so many manuscripts don’t make it to the peer review process:

1. It fails the technical screening.

2.  It does not fall within the Aims and Scope.

3.  It's incomplete.

4.  The procedures and/or analysis of the data is seen to be defective.

5.  The conclusions cannot be justified on the basis of the rest of the paper.

6.  It's is simply a small extension of a different paper, often from the same authors.

7.  It's incomprehensible.

8.  It's boring."

Details about each item, see here: http://www.elsevier.com/connect/8-reasons-i-rejected-your-article

Your body language shapes who you are

By Amy Cuddy

How to give a presentation in English

Top 11 Technologies of the Decade

1 - Smartphones: The Pocketable PC
2 - Social Networking: Friended
3 - Voice Over IP: Setting Phone Service Free
4 - LED Lighting: Blue + Yellow = White
5 - Multicore CPUs: Processor Proliferation  :D
6 - Cloud Computing: It's Always Sunny in the Cloud
7 - Drone Aircraft: How the Drones Got Their Stingers
8 - Planetary Rovers: Are We Alone?
9 - Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine
10 - Digital Photography: The Power of Pixels
11 - Class-D Audio: The Power and the Glory
See details at: http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/special-report-top-11-technologies-of-the-decade

Flutter: controls applications with gestures

https://flutterapp.com/home/

Controlando aplicativos por gestos. Empresa foi adquirida pela Google.

Checking For Normality Using R

This video teach you how to check for normality using R. Very simple and useful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6-uOUi4gcA

How to install R in Ubuntu

The follow page give you step-by-step how to install the R in Ubuntu.

http://cran.es.r-project.org/ or you can choose the R mirror of this page: http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html

Click in "Download R for Linux" link  then click in "Ubuntu" link.

If you obtain the GPG error this page can help you to solve this problem:

http://blogs.helsinki.fi/bioinformatics-viikki/documentation/getting-started-with-r-programming/installingrlatest/

Brazilian citation scheme outed

"Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva thought that he had spotted an easy way to raise the profiles of Brazilian journals. From 2009, he and several other editors published articles containing hundreds of references to papers in each others’ journals — in order, he says, to elevate the journals’ impact factors."


More in: http://www.nature.com/news/brazilian-citation-scheme-outed-1.13604


I think in this scheme there are two problem: the "Jeitinho Brasileiro"* and CAPES policy.



* "The word jeitinho (pronounced zhay-cheen-yo) is a commonly used expression in Portuguese that describes the Brazilian knack for finding a way over an obstacle, around a problem, or out of a jam. " ...

"Brazilians use the jeitinho to get what they want, ..." 
(http://www.jeffreyluke.com/Brazil_Diary_postscript/Brazil_Diary4Brazil%20is%20the%20Country%20of%20the%20Future.htm)