Problems in inhibitory control are regarded in Psychology as a key problem associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). They, however, might not be primary deficits, but instead a consequence of inattention. At least two components have been identified and dissociated in studies in regards to inhibitory control: interference suppression, responsible for controlling interfere...

Abstract Background The structure and function of fire-prone ecosystems are influenced by many interacting processes that develop over varying time scales. Fire creates both instantaneous long-term changes in vegetation (defined as live, dead, decomposing plant material) through combustion, heat transfer to living tissues, subsequent patterns recovery. While fuel available for combustion may be...

Skilled users of a long-cane are quite fluid in registering the layout of surfaces that surround them. What they need to know, of course, concerns properties with consequences for behavior—whether the ground is sufficiently flat and solid to be negotiated safely, whether discontinuities in that ground surface are gaps that can be stepped over or brinks that must be descended. At first blush, th...

How do people perceive routine events such as making a bed as they unfold in time? Research on knowledge structures suggests that people conceive of events as goal-directed partonomic hierarchies. Here, participants segmented videos of events into coarse and fine units on separate viewings; some described the activity of each unit as well. Both segmentation and descriptions support the hierarch...

A co-operative inquiry was established to explore the experience of a panpsychic world sentient beings rather than inert objects, in which mind—sentience, subjectivity, and will self-realization—is fundamental aspect matter, just as matter is mind. The nature worldviews, basis our perceiving, thinking, valuing, acting, addressed brief outline living cosmos panpsychism offered. asks, could we hu...

The apparel segment of the U.S. textile industrial complex is under tremendous pressure from foreign competition. The apparel industry is trying to respond to this pressure by changing its production philosophy to accommodate the consumer demand for ever increasing style variation and retailer demands for more frequent Just-In-Time (JIT) deliveries of smaller orders. The apparel industry must b...

RELEVANCE TO NTC GOALS: The apparel segment of the U.S. textile industrial complex is under tremendous pressure from foreign competition. The apparel industry is trying to respond to this pressure by changing its production philosophy to accommodate the consumer demand for ever increasing style variation and retailer demands for more frequent Just-In-Time (JIT) deliveries of smaller orders. The...