To build software which, at the press of a button, can tell you what cognition related hazards there are within an environment or a task, is probably well into the future if it is possible at all. However, incorporating existing tools such as task analysis tools, interface design guidelines and information about general cognitive limitations in humans, could allow for greater evaluative options...

Moreover, such music invites not just our individual engagement, but the collective, coordinated engagement of the entire audience. We are hearing in time (and often as a result, moving in time), together. William H. McNeill, the respected historian who has written on Toynbee, Technology and Military History, and the Rise of Western Civilization, also wrote a fascinating book on a rather differ...

Title of dissertation: CROSS-LAYER ASPECTS OF COGNITIVE WIRELESS NETWORKS Anthony A. Fanous, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Anthony Ephremides Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering We study cognitive wireless networks from a cross-layer perspective, where we investigate the effects of the PHY layer parameters and enhancements on the MAC layer performa...

Page 2 of 215 Abstract Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) seek to provide a more natural means of interaction for a user through conversation. ECA build on the dialogue abilities of spoken dialogue systems with the provision of a physical or virtual avatar. The rationale for this Thesis is that an ECA should be able to support a form of conversation capable of understanding both the content a...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting a variety of brain structures. Its prevalence in the general population is around 0.3% and increases considerably with age (de Lau & Breteler, 2006). The median age of onset is 60 years and the incidence is equal in both sexes (Katzenschlager et al., 2008). While initially symptoms are subtle severe disability often requiring pe...

Dear Editor, The article on “Cognitive Aspects of Diagnostic Errors”1 published in Annals Volume 42 No. 1 did an excellent job linking the decision-making processes of doctors with fi ndings in cognitive psychology about heuristics and biases as written extensively by Kahneman and his team. Much research has since been done in the fi eld of human factors which looked at the decision-making proc...

The role of CNS neuromodulators in cognitive neurorehabilitation can be related to two main issues: 1) the negative impact on cognition of drug categories prescribed for different neurologic symptoms, such as spasticity, extrapyramidal symptoms, or epileptic seizures; 2) their possible role in neuroprotection and amelioration of the cognitive status of the patient, especially attention and memo...

The paper focuses on the issues of establishing transferable language phrase structures. The approach employed is based on generalized cognitive entities manifested in the categorial systems of the English and Russian languages and functional roles of language units in a sentence. The formalism developed for presentation of syntactic structures for the English-Russian machine translation is a v...

companies for survival and the presence of strong and innovative strategies are needed in the global market, thus to achieve profitable growth opportunities and create new blue ocean. blue ocean created of red ocean weakness (focusing too much on competition and lack of attention to the creation of a new market without competition) comes. while the blue ocean strategy to industries that do not ...