Near Field Communication (NFC) technology was developed for mobile devices from RFID technology. It enables new kinds of learning applications that are based on touching objects with phones. When an object is touched, a phone reads data from the object’s NFC tag. An application interprets the data and acts consequently. We report our first pilot study of an NFC-based learning application that s...

an in vitro experiment was conducted to study the effect of non-fiber carbohydrates (nfc) on ruminaldisappearance kinetics of dry matter (dm) and neutral detergent fiber (ndf) of alfalfa hay, wheat bran andunmolassed sugar beet pulp. non-supplemented or nfc supplemented samples [70 mg/g dm of each feedsample as sucrose (su) or starch (st) or su + st as 1:1] were incubated in bottles containing ...

Twenty-four multiparous dairy cows (eight with ruminal cannulae) were blocked by days in milk and assigned to six balanced 4 x 4 Latin squares with 21-d periods. The four diets, formulated from alfalfa silage plus a concentrate mix based on ground high moisture ear corn, contained (dry matter basis): 1) 20% concentrate, 80% alfalfa silage (24% nonfiber carbohydrate; NFC), 2) 35% concentrate, 65...

OBJECTIVES The authors have demonstrated that the limited bandwidth associated with conventional hearing aid amplification prevents useful high-frequency speech information from being transmitted. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of two popular frequency-lowering algorithms and one novel algorithm (spectral envelope decimation) in adults with mild to moderate sensorineural ...

Recent studies have observed the perceptual effect of peripherally displayed web ads on consumers’ online shopping behavior. This study examines how an individual’s disposition in cognitive operations need for cognition (NFC), interacts with web ad presentation formats to influence the functioning of the perceptual fluency effect. It integrates web ad literature with the persuasion knowledge mo...

Traditional authentication methods (e.g., password, PIN) often do not scale well to the context of mobile devices in terms of security and usability. However, the adoption of Near Field Communication (NFC) on a broad range of smartphones enables the use of NFC-enabled tokens as an additional authentication factor. This additional factor can help to improve the security, as well as usability of ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the moderated mediation model of the relationship between the behavioral inhibition system (BIS), need for closure (NFC) and working memory capacity (WMC) in the decision making process. It was assumed that NFC works as a motivational mechanism that enables individuals high in BIS to deal with uncertainty; therefore, NFC mediates the effect of BIS...

Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging technology for touch-based mobile interactionswith singleandmulti-tagged objects. Although the lattermay allow for simultaneous and collaborative interactions, most prototypes were not designed for multiple users and were only evaluated with single-user interactions. In this paper, we investigate the design, usability and user experience of multi-us...

This paper presents a low-power wearable biosignal monitoring system. The proposed system can communicate with smartphones using Near Field Communication (NFC) to check vital signs easily at any time. It comprises a battery, electrodes, a triaxial accelerometer IC, an NFC tag IC, and a biosignal processor LSI. The proposed biosignal processor LSI, fabricated using a 130-nm CMOS process, compris...