This study investigated the trajectory of physiological and psychological functioning during the second half of pregnancy and compared responsiveness to a laboratory stressor between pregnant and non-pregnant women. Monitoring of 137 pregnant women at 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, and 38 weeks of pregnancy included measures of heart period (HP), heart period variability (HPV), skin conductance (SCL), res...

In a market where rapid changes in demand, product mix and volumes are now commonplace and where the requirement for a production operation to be reliable in terms of quality and delivery performance is now a baselevel expectation, an appropriate set of response capabilities is critical. This paper presents a link between agility, responsiveness and flexibility in the context of production oper...

ackground: Stress, one of the strongest risk factors for depression, has been linked to “anhedonic” behavior and dysfunctional eward-related neural circuitry in preclinical models. ethods: To test if acute stress reduces reward responsiveness (i.e., the ability to modulate behavior as a function of past reward), a ignal-detection task coupled with a differential reinforcement schedule was utili...

In a 50 people company we compared various performance metrics with social networking structure obtained by mining e-mail archives. We also calculated e-mail responsiveness and conducted an individual job satisfaction survey. We identified patterns of productive and less-productive e-mail usage. Results indicate that central network position reduces e-mail responsiveness, while this position in...

Within this article, we present the application of the AutoSummENG method within the TAC 2009 AESOP challenge. We further offer an alternative to the original AutoSummENG method, which uses an additional operator of the n-gram graph framework to represent a set of documents with a single, merged graph. Both alternatives offer very good results in different aspects of the AESOP results evaluatio...

This document describes the mechanism of OLIA, the "Opportunistic Linked Increases Algorithm". OLIA is a congestion control algorithm for MPTCP. The current congestion control algorithm of MPTCP, LIA [4], forces a tradeoff between optimal congestion balancing and responsiveness. OLIA's design departs from this tradeoff and provide these properties simultaneously. Hence, it solves the identified...

The paper explores how the structure of Webspace and the reading pattern of the surfer affect Web prefetch. We have conducted a series of experiments based on a new prefetch proxy and studied the prefetch performance on several dominant hyperspace structures including chain, tree, and complete graph sub-structures. The study assesses the system’s responsiveness and the excess prefetching for va...