A comparison was made between results obtained through the Titmus Vision Tester and those obtained through more common open field optometric procedures. Specific tests performed with the Titmus Vision Tester included near and distance visual acuities, distance lateral and vertical phorias, color discrimination, and stereo acuity. Results were also obtained using Snellen near and distance charts...

In this paper we present a property tester for the convex position property of points sets. Our property tester queries the input set P of n points in Rd in O( d+1 √ nd/ ) random points and distinguishes between the case when P is in convex position and the case when one has to modify at least an -fraction of the points in P to obtain a set of points in convex position. We also show that the co...

This paper proposes a conformance test method for Management Information Base (MIB) and discusses an implementation and an evaluation of a MIB tester. The proposed test method is based on and an extension of the existing conformance test method for protocol entity. We show the practical solution to the scope of testing by conducting the capability test to all test cases and the behaviour test l...

We consider the task of testing whether a Boolean function f : {0, 1} → {0, 1} is the indicator function of an (l − k)-dimensional affine space. An optimal tester for this property was presented by Parnas, Ron, and Samorodnitsky (SIDMA, 2002), by mimicking the celebrated linearity tester (of Blum, Luby and Rubinfeld, JCSS, 1993) and its analysis. We show that the former task (i.e., testing (l−k...

The present study examines the effect of a sympathetic stressor on a short-term memory test, and changes in cortical Beta wave amplitude, which when present, indicate active cognition. While testing these variables, heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) were also recorded to ensure that sympathetic stimulation occurred; control subjects were also used as a reference to ensure that stimulation...

Previous work suggests that inductive and deductive reasoning may be accomplished by different processes. Here, we examine whether different phenomena of inductive reasoning, previously explained in the same way, may rely on different types of processes. In Experiment 1 we show that trials which examine sensitivity to sample size in inductive reasoning have greater effects on secondary task per...

The study of locally testable codes (LTCs) has benefited from a number of nontrivial constructions discovered in recent years. Yet we still lack a good understanding of what makes a linear error correcting code locally testable and as a result we do not know what is the rate-limit of LTCs and whether asymptotically good linear LTCs with constant query complexity exist. In this paper we provide ...

Hard coatings have been adopted in cutting and forming applications for nearly two decades. The major purpose of using hard coatings is to reduce the friction coefficient between contact surfaces, to increase strength, toughness and anti-wear performance of working tools and molds, and then to obtain a smooth work surface and an increase in service life of tools and molds. In this report, we de...