There is an error in the antepenultimate sentence of the abstract. The number of treatments is incorrect. The correct sentence is: The control scenario requires community-directed treatment with ivermectin beyond 2045 with around 2.63 billion treatments over 2013–2045; the elimination scenario, until 2028 in areas where feasible, but beyond 2045 in countries with operational challenges, around ...

Observers have difficulty detecting visual changes. However, they are unaware of this inability, suggesting that people do not have an accurate understanding of visual processes. We explored whether this error is related to participants' beliefs about the roles of intention and scene complexity in detecting changes. In Experiment 1 participants had a higher failure rate for detecting changes in...

In this study, participants were asked to identify briefly presented 5-letter (Experiments 1-3) or 2-letter (Experiment 4) strings. Identical items in a repeated trial were identified worse than their counterparts in a nonrepeated trial, indicating repetition blindness (RB; N. G. Kanwisher, 1987). In Experiment 1, RB occurred regardless of whether items were presented successively or simultaneo...

Directed signature is the solution of such problems when the signed message contains information sensitive to the signature receiver. Generally, in many application of directed signature, the signer is generally a single person. But when the message is on behalf of an organization, a valid sensitive message may require the approval of several people. Threshold signature schemes are used to solv...

Consciousness researchers are interested in distinguishing between mental activity that occurs with and without awareness (i.e., explicit versus implicit processes). The inattentional blindness (IB) paradigm is an excellent tool for this question because it permits the independent manipulation of processing time and awareness. In the present study, we show that implicit texture segregation can ...

The aim of this paper is to present some remarks on the cost functions for blind channel equalization by ‘Bussgang’ algorithms recently discussed in the literature; also, some possible associated non-Bayesian estimators are considered with details, and the effects of the choice of such estimators in relation to ‘Bussgang’ filtering are investigated.