Evidence regarding the use of inner speech by individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is equivocal. To clarify this issue, the current study employed multiple techniques and tasks used across several previous studies. In Experiment 1, participants with and without ASD showed highly similar patterns and levels of serial recall for visually presented stimuli. Both groups were significantl...

Traditional building retrofitting planning is a decision making process prior to the building retrofitting investment. Although the long term energy and financial issues of the retrofitting project are considered in some cases, the energy efficiency potentials due to the maintenance and operation of the retrofitted facilities are not sufficiently explored in existing studies. In the broad field...

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E In this article, we look for technical solutions to accommodate the business needs for distributed software development. In doing so, we investigate quantitative approaches to distributing work across geographic locations to minimize communication and synchronization needs. Our main premise is inspired by Melvin Conway’s work, which suggests...

The learning process of academic writing is already difficult for many students. online environment can either hinder or facilitate writing. seen as cyclical. In the context this study, writer starts with planning stage. Once done, translates ideas into written form in a draft. then reviews If unhappy draft, he/she makes plans to repair, and resumes circle. This quantitative research done inves...

In this paper we consider a kit planning problem where demand occurrences are not for individual items, but for kits (a group of items). Each kit contains an arbitrary number of items. Kit demands occur according to a Poisson process. Whenever a kit demand occurs, only one item from the kit is used and the rest is returned as unused. The item that will be used from the kit is not known in advan...

Phonemic codes are accorded a privileged role in most current models of immediate serial recall, although their effects are apparent in short-term proactive interference (PI) effects as well. The present research looks at how assumptions concerning distributed representation and distributed storage involving both semantic and phonemic codes might be operationalized to produce PI in a short-term...

Given the probability measure ν over the given region Ω ⊂ Rn, we consider the optimal location of a set Σ composed by n points Ω in order to minimize the average distance Σ 7→ R Ω dist (x,Σ) dν (the classical optimal facility location problem). The paper compares two strategies to find optimal configurations: the long-term one which consists in placing all n points at once in an optimal positio...

The paper described a generalized integrated glance to bin packing problems including a brief literature survey and some new problem formulations for the cases of multiset estimates of items. A new systemic viewpoint to bin packing problems is suggested: (a) basic element sets (item set, bin set, item subset assigned to bin), (b) binary relation over the sets: relation over item set as compatib...

A ninnable simulation architecture for working memory Is described that provides an alternative to existing models of working memory, e.g., of Atkinson & Shlffrin (1008) and Baddeley (1080). It is used to inurpret a variety of phenomena, including multiple resources, workload, chunking, sequential output, skilled and episodic memories, and stages of skill acquisition. The architecture is based ...