Objectives: This research investigated three potential asymmetries in the production and perception of homophone spelling errors: aging, homophone dominance, and priming. A homophone spelling error occurs when a contextually appropriate word (beet) is replaced with its homophone (e.g., beat glaze). Two experiments investigated young and older adults' written production and detection of these er...

The International Commission on Radiological Protection's (ICRP) system to protect the living components of the environment is designed to provide a broad and practical framework across all exposure situations. The objectives of ICRP are therefore also set in fairly broad terms, recognising that national and local environmental protection requirements may need to be set within them. The framewo...

The present work examines persistence in situations where delays are open-ended. From a normative standpoint, appropriate behavior in such situations depends on the statistical distribution of possible delay lengths. Depending on this distribution it may be appropriate either to persist indefinitely or to give up after a short period of time. In a behavioral experiment, human participants exper...

The purpose of this investigation is to develop a system for human physical Activity Recognition using smartphone inertial sensors. The main application for this system is for the remote monitoring of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) of elderly people, especially those in assisted living situations. The immediate goal is to remotely identify which actions are being carried out by a subject, gi...

Advances in information technology, and its use in research, are increasing both the need for anonymized data and the risks of poor anonymization. [1] presented a new privacy metric, δ-presence, that clearly links the quality of anonymization to the risk posed by inadequate anonymization. It was shown that existing anonymization techniques are inappropriate for situations where δ-presence is a ...

The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been shown to improve survival in patients at high risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). However, there remain situations in which an ICD may be inappropriate: the high risk for SCA is temporary, there is need for interruption of implanted ICD therapy (e.g. for infection), there is temporary inability to implant an ICD, there is bridge period...

The ageing population is having an impact worldwide and has created a serious challenge in Thailand's healthcare systems, whereby healthcare practitioners play a major role in promoting independent interaction of their client's abilities, as well as environmental factors. The purpose of this study was to survey features of the home and assistive technology (AT) for the home-bound elderly in the...

Server intervention is a relatively new approach in the attempt to reduce the incidence of drinking and driving. Although a number of evaluations have suggested that the approach may be effective, there have been few comprehensive evaluations of such programmes. The present study utilized process evaluation techniques to assess reactions to a programme developed by the Addiction Research Founda...