This paper utilizes a field study to investigate database communication issues peculiar to users of a voice activated medical tracking application (VAMTA). Specifically, this study investigates voice activated userdatabase interaction, in terms of user gender, speech speed in words per minute (WPM) and technical computer experience of the users. A VAMTA device is employed to help solve the busi...

Do economies and markets make remediable errors in the choice of products? Does the economy "lock-in" to these incorrect choices even when the knowledge that these choices are incorrect is readily available? The literature of path dependence may be understood to argue that these lock-ins and errors occur, even in a world characterized by voluntary decisions and individually maximizing behavior....

Mentalization is defined as the human capacity to reflect upon one's own or others’ behaviors in terms of underlying mental states and intentions. Several concepts mentalizing exist, which differ content, assessment, clinical prediction. The present study examines relationship between three main mentalizing, namely, reflective functioning (RF), parental (PRF), Mind-Mindedness (MM), mothers with...

An understanding of fluid mechanical concepts is important for a variety of biological areas from biological oceanography to locomotion (swimming and flight) to cardiovascular physiology to diffusion within cells and across cell membranes. While graduate students in biomechanical areas are usually encouraged to take courses within engineering schools, the interests of undergraduate biology majo...

Previous research shows that men with higher facial width-to-height ratios (fWHRs) have higher testosterone, are more aggressive, more powerful, and more financially successful, but are they more attractive to women in an ecologically valid mating context, speed-dating? Male fWHR was positively associated with perceptions of dominance, being chosen for a second date, and attractiveness to women...

The purpose of this study was to observe the differences in object investigation between two groups of aged Sprague Dawley rats reared in an enriched and a typical laboratory environment. Research has shown that enrichment has a positive effect on behavior of young and mature rats. Our research question was: Will this positive effect on behavior be retained into old age? Object investigation wa...

Functional recovery of the hemiplegic upper extremity after stroke is a great challenge faced by medical and rehabilitation professionals. In this case study, three approaches including task-oriented model of practice, bilateral training, and functional electrical stimulation were utilized with patient care. These three approaches have been preliminarily confirmed to be effective in stroke reha...

Wesuggest that amultidisciplinary approach to teaching has potential to widen its scope. In that vein, we revisit our original claim that teaching is a natural cognitive ability among humans. We elaborate on three requirements for such an ability and report that, first, teaching strategies may be developmentally reliable. Findings indicate a possible normative developmental trajectory from age ...

The purpose of the present paper was to examine three generations of research on technology-mediated learning carried on by the present investigator’s research group. The first generation focused on examining computersupported collaborative learning from the cognitive perspective. The main focus was to examine to what extent knowledge-seeking inquiry elicited conceptual change. Problems of tran...

The elderly often struggle when interacting with technologies. This is because the software and hardware components of the technologies are not familiar to the elderly’s mental model. This is a lack of empirical studies about how the concept of familiarity can be infused into the design of interactive technology systems to bridge the digital divide preventing today’s elderly people from activel...