Assessing cognitive change in older adults is a common use of neuropsychological services, and neuropsychologists have utilized several strategies to determine if a change is "real," "reliable," and "meaningful." Although standardized regression-based (SRB) prediction formulas may be useful in determining change, SRBs have not been widely applied to older adults. The current study sought to dev...

It is widely recognized that experience with cognitive tests can influence estimates of cognitive change. Prior research has estimated experience effects at the level of groups by comparing the performance of a group of participants tested for the second time with the performance of a different group of participants at the same age tested for the first time. This twice-minus-once-tested method ...

Does personality change across the entire life course, and are those changes due to intrinsic maturation or major life experiences? This longitudinal study investigated changes in the mean levels and rank order of the Big Five personality traits in a heterogeneous sample of 14,718 Germans across all of adulthood. Latent change and latent moderated regression models provided 4 main findings: Fir...

We analyze deficiencies in Tor's positional weighting system, identifying cases which the system either fails to produce valid weights or properly load balance across positions. describe how an attacker can take advantage of these failures reduce performance, thereby also easing censorship and surveillance through a denial-of-service attack. Our attacks exploit incorrectly determined positional...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the neuro-otological findings, including nystagmus, and the clinical course of patients with the horizontal canal variant of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (HC-BPPV), who showed spontaneous inversion of nystagmus without a positional change. Furthermore, we speculated on the possible mechanism of spontaneous inversion of nystagmus without a positional change. P...

Course number: 0366.4991. Course webpage: www.math.tau.ac.il/∼krivelev/teaching/PosGames/PG.html When and where: Wednesdays 15-18, Schreiber 007 Prospective audience: the course is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in Mathematics and Computer Science. Informal prerequisites: working knowledge of graph theory notions; knowledge of basic concepts in probability. Grading: H...

BACKGROUND Orthopaedic surgeons often face clinical situations where improved screw holding power in cancellous bone is needed. Injectable calcium phosphate cements are one option to enhance fixation. METHODS Paired screw pullout tests were undertaken in which human cadaver bone was augmented with calcium phosphate cement. A finite element model was used to investigate sensitivity to screw po...

In this work we present an improved rendering algorithm for the planning of stage lighting using photon mapping, since existing software implements algorithms that do not suit the lighting workflow in a theatre adequately. During theatre lighting, positional changes of light sources are occuring rarely compared to intensity and color changes: Once a light is positioned and aimed correctly, many...

PURPOSE To describe the prevalence of auditory and vestibular dysfunction in individuals with systemic sclerosis (SS) and the hypotheses to explain these changes. RESEARCH STRATEGY We performed a systematic review without meta-analysis from PubMed, LILACS, Web of Science, SciELO and SCOPUS databases, using a combination of keywords "systemic sclerosis AND balance OR vestibular" and "systemic ...