The past twenty-five years have witnessed an increasing awareness of the importance of cognitive control in the regulation of complex behavior. It now sits alongside attention, memory, language and thinking as a distinct domain within cognitive psychology. At the same time it permeates each of these sibling domains. This paper reviews recent work on cognitive control in an attempt to provide a ...

Airline deregulation is spreading worldwide and has important consequences for the planning, design, and management of airports. One important effect is that the overall traffic at an airport -and by extension its revenues is much more volatile in a liberal environment. This is demonstrated by analysis of the US experience over the last twenty-five years. The increased risk thus associated with...

We assessed and compared abiotic preferences of aquatic macroinvertebrates in three river basins located in Ecuador, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Upon using logistic regression models we analyzed the relationship between the probability of occurrence of five macroinvertebrate families, ranging from pollution tolerant to pollution sensitive, (Chironomidae, Baetidae, Hydroptilidae, Libellulidae and Lept...

Present study examined the relationship between Service and Repeated Volley Skills among Volleyball Players. Total twenty five (N-25) female volleyball players their age ranged from 17 to 19 years were selected as subject from Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Sector25, Chandigarh. Service and Repeated Volley abilities were measured by administrating RussellLange Volleyball Skill Test. The data was an...

Although support vector machine (SVM) has become a powerful tool for pattern classification and regression, a major disadvantage is it fails to exploit the underlying correlation between any pair of data points as much as possible. Inspired by the modified pairwise constraints trick, in this paper, we propose a novel classifier termed as support vector machine with hypergraph-based pairwise con...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures have been increasingly employed in the evaluation of health utility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of four different kinds of chronic diseases on the HRQoL of patients from specialist outpatient clinics in Hong Kong (HK) using the 5-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) value set. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients who attended one of ...