Three task assignment metrics, intensity, concurrency and fragmentation, were previously found to significantly impact development effort. Intensity measures the degree of focus on a particular task. Concurrency refers to the degree to which team members are working together cooperatively on given tasks. Fragmentation measures the degree to which a team’s time is fragmented across multiple task...

We present and discuss evidence on how neurophysiological measures of brain activation supplied by various neuroimaging methods relate to stimulus intensity, on the one hand, and subjective experience, in particular, sensory magnitudes and measures of performance (like speed or accuracy of response), on the other. We argue that in modern neurophysiology, the functional relation between the stim...

There is a growing body of literature that points to the value of using the intensity measures of the backscattered laser light in addition to the pulse range measurements for studying a range of environments, including forests. However, there is a lack of literature that has validated the lidar intensity values captured in a campaign, and therefore limited understanding in the full utility of ...

The relative magnitude of the first two harmonics of the voice source (H1*-H2*) is an important measure and is assumed to be one exponent of changes in vocal quality along a breathyto-pressed continuum. H1*-H2* is often associated with glottal open quotient (OQ) and glottal pulse skewness (as quantified by speed quotient, SQ), but may also covary with fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal intens...

Automatic Action Unit (AU) intensity estimation is a key problem in facial expression analysis. But limited research attention has been paid to the inherent class imbalance, which usually leads to suboptimal performance. To handle the imbalance, we propose (1) a novel multiclass under-sampling method and (2) its use in an ensemble. We compare our approach with state of the art sampling methods ...

The present study aims at describing voice quality settings by means of long-term, f0 and intensity analysis of samples which integrate the material developed with the purpose of introducing the Voice Profile Analysis Scheme-VPAS in the Brazilian Portuguese context (BP-VPAS). The voice quality database was recorded in a radio studio. The audio samples were analyzed by means of the SG Expression...

Context: Research on therapeutic ultrasound has not focused on the duration needed to cause thermal change with various ultrasound intensities. Objective: To analyze triceps surae intramuscular temperature using 4 intensity levels after a 10-min 1-MHz continuous ultrasound treatment at a depth of 4 cm. Design: 1 4 repeated measures. Independent variable: intensity of 4 levels—0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and...

OBJECTIVE We examined the associations of objectively measured sedentary time, light-intensity physical activity, and moderate- to vigorous-intensity activity with fasting and 2-h postchallenge plasma glucose in Australian adults. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 67 men and 106 women (mean age +/- SD 53.3 +/- 11.9 years) without diagnosed diabetes were recruited from the 2004-2005 Austr...

OBJECTIVE Several issues concerning F2 slope in dysarthria were addressed by obtaining speech acoustic measures and judgments of intelligibility for sentences produced in Habitual, Clear and Loud conditions by speakers with Parkinson's disease (PD) and healthy controls. PATIENTS AND METHODS Acoustic measures of average and maximum F2 slope for diphthongs, duration and intensity were obtained....

OBJECTIVES Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a genetic disease with multiple clinical manifestations that can significantly impact quality of life (QOL). Clinical trials should include patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as endpoints to assess treatment effects on various aspects of QOL, but there is no consensus on the selection and use of such measures in NF. This article describes the PRO Working Group...