The hypothesis that working memory is crucial for reducing distraction by maintaining the prioritization of relevant information was tested in neuroimaging and psychological experiments with humans. Participants performed a selective attention task that required them to ignore distractor faces while holding in working memory a sequence of digits that were in the same order (low memory load) or ...

Performance of attention-demanding tasks is challenged if motor (e.g., walking) and cognitive (e.g., talking) tasks are carried out simultaneously. These dual-task paradigms have received increasing interest in probing the attentional influence associated with impairments to these systems [1]. For example, gait instabilities in Alzheimer's patients has been suggested to result from impaired att...

To examine the effect of a cognitive task on intentional vs. reactive balance control in people with hemiparetic stroke (PwHS). Community-dwelling PwHS (n = 10) and healthy, age-similar controls performed two tests, which included the Limits of Stability Test (intentional control) and the Motor Control Test (reactive control), under single-task (ST) and dual-task (DT) conditions (addition of a ...

Test case prioritization techniques let testers order their test cases so that those with higher priority, according to some criterion, are executed earlier than those with lower priority. In previous work, we examined a variety of prioritization techniques to determine their ability to improve the rate of fault detection of test suites. Our studies showed that the rate of fault detection of te...

A fuzzy option prioritization technique is developed to efficiently model uncertain preferences of DMs in strategic conflicts as fuzzy preferences by using the decision makers’ (DMs’) fuzzy truth values of preference statements at feasible states within the framework of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution. The preference statements of a DM express desirable combinations of options or course...

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With the continuous evolution of software systems, test suites often grow very large. Rerunning all test cases may be impractical in regression testing under limited resources. Coverage-based test case prioritization techniques have been proposed to improve the effectiveness of regression testing. The original test suite often contains some test cases which are designed for exercising productio...

In this article, we address the rarely discussed problem of connecting high-level information (e.g., aggregated states and enemy intentions) to information acquisition. Our approach is to partition the transition of information need to sensor management into a set of comprehensible entities (information types and functions), which we present in a framework. The framework is stepwise (sequential...

this paper aims to use a priority framework based on decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (dematel) to help organizations build awareness of the critical influential factors affecting successful implementation of km. to identify critical influential factors, the authors studied and reviewed relevant literature from numerous fields of study associated with the essential issues of km. ...