The primary objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which second language (L2) pronunciation proficiency, language use, and age of L2 acquisition (AoA) are associated with variation in enhanced executive control in bilinguals. The secondary objective was to examine whether bilinguals’ executive control, as reflected in the incongruent response time for the Flanker task, differe...

NFS and the automounter simplify both filesystem access and filesystem management in large, distributed networks. In demanding environments, however, they require a network management strategy which ensures a consistent and acceptable level of performance. This paper reviews available tools for measuring NFS response time including rpcspy, nfswatch, nfsstat, and WireTap. We then describe a heur...

Traffic Emergency Management deals with directing the vehicular and pedestrian traffic around traffic disruptions due to emergencies, such as accidents or flooded roadways, aiming to ensure the safety of drivers, pedestrians, and emergency responders. In this study, a scenario involving the local flooding of the A1 motorway, one of Italy’s main highways connecting north to the south, is studied...

The aim of the present study was to verify the effect of fatigue on reaction time, response time, and impact force during the roundhouse kick in Taekwondo athletes. Six competitive male athletes performed a time to exhaustion test. Results show that a specific protocol to exhaustion reduce impact force but do not change reaction time and response time during the roundhouse kick in Taekwondo ath...

The model works with n dimensions, continuous choices and any integrate-to-threshold decision model. The model has a 300ms constant motor response time added. The maximum trial length for both the experiment and model is 800ms. The model performs similarly well using 4and 8-choice decisions. The monkey response at 0% coherence may indicate ‘guess’ formulation involving non-sensory mechanisms (S...

This paper concludes the work on my fopra: “Learning Progress” page of the Learner Model of ActiveMath, that allows to give the learners an overview of ActiveMath’s opinion on their learning progress. However, after having finished the project and having read some articles, I realized that learners may prefer to participate in a discussion about their problems rather than being given a quick, i...

In many equipment manufacturing industries, firms compete with each other not only on products price, but also on maintenance service. More and more traditional products oriented firms are offering their customers products bundled with maintenance service (P&S bundles). In this study, we examine firms’ incentive to offer customers products bundling with long-term maintenance or repair support s...

Stochastic diffusion models (Ratcliff, 1978) can be used to analyze response time data from binary decision tasks. They provide detailed information about cognitive processes underlying the performance in such tasks. Most importantly, different parameters are estimated from the response time distributions of correct responses and errors that map (1) the speed of information uptake, (2) the amou...