Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adolescents have experienced limitations in their everyday activities. Consequently, mental health has become an area of concern. However, there been much less a focus on factors and mechanisms contributing how they approached various academic activities during pandemic. The current study fills this gap by investigating associations between adolescents’ competence ...

Despite the development of prominent theoretical models of goal motivation and its importance in daily life, research has rarely examined goal dysregulation processes in clinical depression. Here we aimed to investigate problematic aspects of goal regulation in clinically depressed adults, relative to controls. Depressed participants (n = 42) were recruited from two Improving Access to Psycholo...

Introduction Animals must integrate large amounts of sensor information to orient movement towards goals and away from threats, often in milliseconds, to survive. Identical directives are faced by autonomous air vehicles; particularly rapid assimilation of surroundings and instantaneous obstacle avoidance. Nature, through evolution and natural selection, has optimized this behavior. In particul...

In this study, the hierarchical model of achievement motivation (Elliot, 1997) is used to investigate the motivational mechanism behind the relationship between fear of failure and selfhandicapping adoption. A cross-sectional design was employed. The participants were 691 college students enrolled in physical education in Taiwan. Students completed the Performance Failure Appraisal Inventory (P...

This paper presents a new approach based on multicarrier modulation (MCM) with OFDM, to accomplish the goals of 4G. MCM [1] is a form of multicarrier system and a derivative of frequency-division multiplexing. MCM is a baseband process that uses parallel equal bandwidth sub channels to transmit information. Normally implemented with Fast Fourier transform (FFT) techniques, MCM's advantages incl...

The present study evaluates the relations between achievement goals, emotions, learning strategies, and performance as informed by Pekrun’s control-value theory of emotions. Undergraduates from various disciplines (N 203) completed domaingeneral, self-report measures in the fall and winter semesters with sessional GPAs evaluated over a 2-year period. Results from cross-lagged and latent growth ...

Congestion is said to occur in the network when the resource demands exceed the capacity and packets are lost due to too much queuing in the network. During congestion, the network throughput may drop to zero and the path delay may become very high. A congestion control scheme helps the network to recover from the congestion state. A congestion avoidance scheme allows a network to operate in th...