background and aim: dichotic listening evaluation is one of the most common behavioral procedures for assessing the cerebral dominance of language and is considered as the main component of the auditory processing test battery in children and adults. the randomized dichotic digits test (rddt) has two lists of randomly distributed one-, two-, and three-digit items. this research was performed fo...

BACKGROUND A significant gap has been documented between best practice and the actual practice of surgery. Our group identified that colorectal cancer staging in Ontario was suboptimal and subsequently developed a knowledge translation strategy using the principles of social marketing and the influence of expert and local opinion leaders for colorectal cancer. METHODS/DESIGN Opinion leaders w...

[Purpose] To translate and culturally adapt the Örebro Musculoskeletal Screening Questionnaire (ÖMSQ-12) into Japanese (ÖMSQ-12-J), and to preliminarily investigate practicality from the clinicians' perspectives, and determine inter-session reliability. [Subjects and Methods] This study included four phases: cross-cultural adaptation (Phases 1-2); survey among 14 clinicians (two medical doctors...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of PAP on 50-m freestyle in national-level swimmers. Four warm-ups were compared: a traditional race-specific warm-up (RSWU), upper-body PAP (UBPAP), lower-body PAP (LBPAP), and combined PAP warm-up (CPAP). Eighteen (10 men, 8 women) national-level swimmers participated in this study, which included 7 separate testing sessions. Participants' 3...

BACKGROUND Whereas some studies have shown clear evidence for an augmentation effect of D-cycloserine (DCS) on exposure therapy for anxiety disorders, other studies have shown weak effects or no effect at all. Some preclinical data suggest that the DCS augmentation effect is moderated by the success of extinction learning. Therefore, we conducted a reanalysis of existing data to examine whether...

We introduce a browser session preservation and migration (BSPM) infrastructure that allows a user to take a snapshot of an active web session state on a browser. The BSPM infrastructure allows the user to retrieve the snapshot at a later time on a browser to continue the same active web session on any device. The design of the BSPM infrastructure is based on a browser-side plug-in that can cap...

Arousal-biased competition theory predicts that arousal biases competition in favor of perceptually salient stimuli and against non-salient stimuli (Mather and Sutherland, 2011). The current study tested this hypothesis by having observers complete many trials in a visual search task in which the target either always was salient (a 55° tilted line among 80° distractors) or non-salient (a 55° ti...

The use of touch screens, which require a high level of manual dexterity, has exploded since the development of smartphone and tablet technology. Manual dexterity relies on effective corticospinal control of finger muscles, and we therefore hypothesized that corticospinal drive to finger muscles can be optimized by tablet-based motor practice. To investigate this, sixteen able-bodied females pr...

........................................................................................................iv Introduction....................................................................................................1 Characteristics of Implicit Knowledge..............................................................................3 Process Control Task..........................................