Previous studies have focused on the ability of cognitive symptom validity tests to identify simulated malingering or distinguish between clinical samples of individuals at low or high risk of cognitive symptom exaggeration. However, no published studies have examined the latent structure of negative response bias on cognitive tests: measures of cognitive symptom exaggeration may evaluate a con...

Visuospatial attention and short-term memory allow us to prioritize, select, and briefly maintain part of the visual information that reaches our senses. These cognitive abilities are quantitatively accounted for by Bundesen's theory of visual attention (TVA; Bundesen, 1990). Previous studies have suggested that TVA-based assessments are sensitive to inter-individual differences in spatial bias...

Past research has found that preschool children’s ability to learn educational content from interactive media may be hindered by needing to learn how to use a new interactive device. However, little research has examined the instructional supports parents provide while their children use interactive media. Forty-six preschool children and their parents participated in a 30-min interaction with ...

The UK Ministry of Defence’s Network Enabled Capability and USA Department of Defence’s Network-Centric Warfare programmes, are aimed at improving military effectiveness through the networking of existing and new military assets. Research is being carried out into architectures needed to support Network Enabled Capability – including emerging software architectures such as Service Oriented Arch...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is employed by enterprises for providing integrated Information Systems (ISs) in order to support alignment of their business and Information Technology (IT). Evaluation of EA implementation can support enterprise to reach intended goals. There are some problems in current evaluation methods of EA implementation that lead to ineffectiveness implementation of EA. Thi...

UNLABELLED Effective recruitment is central to successful trials but is often problematic. This article reports the lessons learnt while recruiting stroke rehabilitation patients to a multi-centre randomised control trial. As intended, 94 participants were recruited from 12 inpatient stroke rehabilitation services in Northwest England over 12 months; however, recruitment rates were highly varie...

Current trends in mobile telecommunications suggest the use of WLANs or WMANs as supplementary access technologies to the existing cellular infrastructure. Overlay network architectures are expected to improve both service provision and resource utilization under the condition that sophisticated architectural options are followed. In this thesis, two different ways to combine wireless and cellu...

BACKGROUND Thank you letters to physicians and medical facilities are an untapped resource, providing an invaluable glimpse into what patients notice and appreciate in their care. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyze such thank you letters as posted on the Web by medical institutions to find what patients and families consider to be good care. In an age of patient-centered care, it ...

In response to the strawman document 9] we propose that trust be treated as synonymous with integrity rather than synonymous with conndence. We also propose that mandatory controls be taken to mean controls based on properties of the object and/or the subject. Label-based mandatory controls are then a special case of this more general notion. The TCSEC 11] presents criteria for establishing pre...

This paper provides a brief survey on the control architectures used in the underwater system and robotics research for AUV application. Advantages and disadvantages of each scheme are discussed briefly in the context of performance evaluation, design flexibility and extensibility, sensor or command fusion and integration, robustness and effectiveness of task modules. There are many schemes ava...