In recent years research on automatic imitation has received considerable attention because it represents an experimental platform for investigating a number of inter-related theories suggesting that the perception of action automatically activates corresponding motor programs. A key debate within this research centers on whether automatic imitation is any different than other long-term S-R ass...

zinc oxide nano-particles with the average diameter of about 25 nm were modified with different mole ratios of trimetoxyvinyl silane (tmvs) and oleic acid, as coupling agents, in order to modify their surface properties and render them more hydrophobic. then, dispersibility of the surface modified nano-particles was examined in some monomers with different levels of hydrophobicity, including me...

Prions are infectious proteins composed of the abnormal disease-causing isoform PrPSc, which induces conformational conversion of the host-encoded normal cellular prion protein PrPC to additional PrPSc. The mechanism underlying prion strain mutation in the absence of nucleic acids remains unresolved. Additionally, the frequency of strains causing chronic wasting disease (CWD), a burgeoning prio...

Theoretical and empirical research on technology acceptance, while acknowledging the importance of individual beliefs about the compatibility of a technology, has produced equivocal results. This study focuses on further theoretical and empirical development of this important belief in technology acceptance. Specifically, unlike prior research which has examined only one aspect of compatibility...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in network industries to rebuild their installed base to maintain an advantage over potential entrants. We study if backward compatibility can help moderate this process of rebuilding an installed base. Using a structural model of the US market for handheld game consoles, we show that backward compatibility lets incumbents transfer ...

Unlike stimulus-response compatibility, which has been explored for aging effects, the motor behavior issue of response-response (R-R) compatibility has not been addressed in the gerontological literature. R-R compatibility refers to the ease with which two responses can be prepared together either simultaneously or as choice alternatives. In the present study, young, middleaged, and elderly ad...

The present study was designed to examine the hypothesis that stimulus-response arrangements with high ideomotor compatibility lead to substantial compatibility effects even in simple response tasks. In Experiment 1, participants executed pre-instructed finger movements in response to compatible and incompatible finger movements. A pronounced reaction time advantage was found for compatible as ...

Despite the rapid development of knowledge it still remains fundamental that mistakes within the ABO and Rhesus systems are responsible for virtually all fatal mismatched transfusions. It therefore cannot be too highly stressed that the careful preliminary grouping of the bloods of all patients for transfusion is of prime importance, irrespective of whether there is a previous record of their b...

This writeup describes the models from two papers [1] and [2]. The model in [1] uses the throughput model of [2] for the congestion avoidance phase. There are three phases: connection establishment, Slow Start, Congestion avoidance. This is a model of the congestion control procedures implemented in the Reno version. Only results are provided in this paper. For a detailed derivation, see http:/...

For 30 years, Greenwald and Shulman’s (1973) psychological refractory period (PRP) study has been cited as evidence for perfect timesharing with two ideomotor (IM) compatible tasks. Recently, Lien, Proctor, and Allen (2002) failed to replicate their results and concluded that the use of two IM compatible tasks is neither necessary nor sufficient to eliminate the PRP effect. Greenwald (2003) sug...