This study demonstrates how naturalistic decision-making (NDM) can be usefully applied to study ‘decision inertia’ – Namely the cognitive process associated with failures to execute action when a decision-maker struggles to choose between equally perceived aversive outcomes. Data assessed the response and recovery from a sudden impact disaster during a 2-day immersive simulated emergency respon...

The swing speed of the bat is one of the most important factors affecting the hit-ball speed. Most field studies tend to focus on measuring ball speed, which is easier to measure and quantify than bat speed. For this reason, relatively little data exist describing bat motion in field conditions. The following describes a relatively large swing speed field study involving bats of the same model ...

Force traces from isolated pelvis impact tests [1] have a bimodal behaviour with each local maximum having nearly the same magnitude, but the first having a lower duration. We believe that the initial force peak in this data was caused by the inertia of the femoral head and lateral pelvis, which are almost rigidly connected to the femoral neck. To date, test apparatuses used to model falls to t...

This paper informs the debate between the impact of content and form factors on presence. From cognitive principles, we predict that the content of a VE will affect presence by interacting with expectations held by the user. Furthermore, a particular cognitive tendency (thematic inertia), should facilitate the effect of the expectations. A sample of 461 users of desktop based flight simulations...

Because the force required to rotate a body about an axis is directly proportional to its rotational inertia about the axis, it is likely that animals with high rotational inertia would be constrained in their turning abilities. Given that rotational inertia scales with mass(1.67) in geometrically similar animals, whereas the ability to apply torque scales with mass(1.00), larger animals would ...

BACKGROUND Human balance during quiet standing is influenced by adding mass to the body with a backpack, with symmetrically-applied loads to the trunk, or with obesity. Adding mass to the body increases both the weight and inertia of the body, which theoretically could provide counteracting effects on body dynamics and balance. Understanding the independent effects of adding weight and inertia ...

Abstract The effect of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) on nonextensive thermodynamics applied to black holes, as well sparsity radiation at different temperatures associated with each entropy, is investigated. We examine Rényi, Tsallis–Cirto, Kaniadakis, Sharma Mittal, and Barrow entropies, temperatures, heat capacities show that, in case, due GUP corrections, temperature entropy ha...