The present study addressed whether developmental improvement in working memory span task performance relies upon a growing ability to proactively plan response sequences during childhood. Two hundred thirteen children completed a working memory span task in which they used a touchscreen to reproduce orally presented sequences of animal names. Children were assessed longitudinally at 7 time poi...

Given a set of scenarios, we answer the question whether this set equals the set of all executions of a Petri net. Formally, scenarios are expressed by (isomorphism classes of) labelled partial orders (LPOs), also known as pomsets or partial words. An LPO is an execution of a Petri net if it is a sequentialization of an LPO generated by a process of the net. We propose a definition of regions f...

This article provides an overview of a project undertaken by the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) and funded by The Department of Health, to identify the barriers and challenges that prevent effective discharge from hospital to home. Unnecessary delays in discharging patients from hospital to home is an ongoing problem and for older people this can lead to worse health outcomes, which can increa...

Knowledge representation and reasoning 4 Logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Probabilistic formulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Fuzzy logic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Planning 6 Motion planning . . . . . . ...

In this paper, we proposed a model for an inventory system that satisfies a continuous time-varying demand for a finished product over a known and finite planning horizon by supplying both new and repaired items. New items are fabricated from a single type of raw material procured from external suppliers, while used items are collected from the customers and then repaired to a condition that is...

The items that incur a gradual loss in quality or quantity over time while in inventory are usually called deteriorating items. In reality, there are some items whose value or utility or quantity increase with time and those items can be termed as ameliorating items. In this paper, an effort has been made to incorporate these two opposite physical characteristics of stored items into inventory ...

Tendency to optimization in last decades has resulted in creating multi-product manufacturing systems. Production planning in such systems is difficult, because optimal production volume that is calculated must be consistent with limitation of production system. Hence, integration has been proposed to decide about these problems concurrently. Main problem in integration is how we can relate pro...

In short-term serial recall, similar sounding items are remembered less well than items that do not sound alike. This phonological similarity effect has been observed with lists composed only of similar items, and also with lists that mix together similar and dissimilar items. An additional consistent finding has been what the authors call dissimilar immunity, the finding that ordered recall of...