Due to the ever growing amount of information, individuals often face high cognitive loads when making decisions. Thus, understanding user reactions to high cognitive loads can help to improve a user’s ability to make good quality decisions under high cognitive load. Prior decision making and user experience research suggests that eye tracking may provide a more complete picture of user reactio...

The right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is critical for stimulus-driven attention and visual awareness. Here we show that as the visual short-term memory (VSTM) load of a task increases, activity in this region is increasingly suppressed. Correspondingly, increasing VSTM load impairs the ability of subjects to consciously detect the presence of a novel, unexpected object in the visual field. ...

Testing auction mechanisms experimentally in a controlled environment provides an inexpensive means for evaluating their relative merits. This paper describes a framework for testing the efficacy of a price-responsive load on a uniform price last accepted offer and a soft-cap market. Experimental evidence to date based on uniform price market testing has shown an ability of price responsive loa...

Swellable elastomers are used to seal flow channels in oilfield operations. After sealing, the elastomers are constrained triaxially, and a contact load builds up between the elastomers and surrounding rigid materials. For these applications, the ability to predict the evolution of the contact load is important. This work introduces an experimental setup to measure the contact load as a functio...

geometrical profile (roughness) of joint surfaces influences the behaviour of rock joints under shear loading. with regard to the dilation, there are two models of direct shear test that may simulate the original loading condition existing in the location from where the specimens have been sampled. the first model in which the normal load is constant (cnl) and the discontinuity is free to dilat...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) high availability, reliability and redundancy are determined by the ability of the core SIP network components to offer high quality SIP services in the event(s) of high call transactions, link outages, device failures, misconfigurations and security attacks. In this context, load balancers can be used to achieve redundancy and active load balancing of SIP tran...

0.2. The paper demonstrates that the definitions of minority languages proposed in the current literature are inadequate to define minority languages in India. It further argues that minority languages can be defined on the basis of two major features: (a) their functional load; and (b) their functional transparency in the various domains of society. Minority languages are typically those which...

INTRODUCTION Despite the frequency of hand-held load carriage in many industrial settings, most research to date has focused primarily on packs as the means of load carriage. The Mover’s Assistive Device (MAD), developed in 2008 at Queen’s University in conjunction with local moving companies, is an on-body ergonomic aid designed to reduce musculoskeletal effort during hand-held load carriage. ...

Systems for processing continuous monitoring queries over data streams must be adaptive because data streams are often bursty and data characteristics may vary over time. In this chapter, we focus on one particular type of adaptivity: the ability to gracefully degrade performance via "load shedding" (dropping unprocessed tuples to reduce system load) when the demands placed on the system cannot...