Sequential decision-making tasks are commonplace in our everyday lives. We report the results of an experiment in which human subjects were trained to perform a perceptual matching task, an instance of a sequential decision-making task. We use two benchmarks to evaluate the quality of subjects’ learning. One benchmark is based on optimal performance as defined by a dynamic programming procedure...

This papers aims to design a new approach in order to increase the performance of the decision making in model-based fault diagnosis when signature vectors of various faults are identical or closed. The proposed approach consists on taking into account the knowledge issued from the reliability analysis and the model-based fault diagnosis. The decision making, formalised as a bayesian network, i...

endurance time (et) method is a relatively new performance-based earthquake method for structural evaluation and design. in this method, the structure is subjected to a gradually intensifying accelorogram(s) and its performance is assessed based on the maximum time duration that it can meet the specified performance objectives. using moment-resisting and braced frames which are rehabilitated by...

In order to obtain more accurate predicted dynamic steady-state performance with shorter computation time, an available mathematical model is modified and presented. Using this modified model, performance of a typical switched reluctance motor (SRM) under a wide range of variations of operating conditions is obtained and discussed. These include variations of speed, voltage, load and switching ...

This work describes a 10-bit 40MS/s pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) which is used in IEEE 802.11a WLAN system. This pipelined ADC is consisted of one sample-and-hold (S/H) circuit and nine uniform pipelined stages. In this pipelined ADC, the resolution for the S/H circuit and each single pipelined stage is up to 12 bit and 14 bit respectively at 8 MHz input frequency. The spurious f...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of whole body vibration training (wbvt) and creatine (cr) supplementation on lower extremity performance and balance in elderly males. methods & materials: in this semi-experimental study, twenty two eligible males from the members of an elderly daycare center with more than 60 years of age were enrolled and were divided into ...

Since the seminal work of Mann and Picard in 1995, the standard way to build high dynamic range (HDR) images from regular cameras has been to combine a reduced number of photographs captured with different exposure times. The algorithms proposed in the literature differ in the strategy used to combine these frames. Several experimental studies comparing their performances have been reported, sh...