Two experiments investigated the relationship between masked form priming and individual differences in reading and spelling proficiency among university students. Experiment 1 assessed neighbor priming for 4-letter word targets from high- and low-density neighborhoods in 97 university students. The overall results replicated previous evidence of facilitatory neighborhood priming only for low-n...

In this paper a variable neighborhood search approach as a method for solving combinatory optimization problems is presented. A variable neighborhood search based algorithm for solving the problem concerning the university course timetable design has been developed. This algorithm is used to solve the real problem regarding the university course timetable design. It is compared with other algor...

The split fovea theory proposes that visual word recognition of centrally presented words is mediated by the splitting of the foveal image, with letters to the left of fixation being projected to the right hemisphere (RH) and letters to the right of fixation being projected to the left hemisphere (LH). Two lexical decision experiments aimed to elucidate word recognition processes under the spli...

The goal of this research was to disentangle effects of phonotactic probability, the likelihood of occurrence of a sound sequence, and neighborhood density, the number of phonologically similar words, in lexical acquisition. Two word learning experiments were conducted with 4-year-old children. Experiment 1 manipulated phonotactic probability while holding neighborhood density and referent char...

In this paper, the effectiveness of the neighborhood crossover of EMO algorithms is discussed through the numerical experiments. The neighborhood crossover chooses two parents which are close to each other in the objective space. All the individuals are sorted in order of proximity in the objective space, and then neighborhood shuffle is conducted, which randomly replaces individuals in the pop...

This paper finds evidence of positive neighborhood effects on adult labor market outcomes using the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing mobility experiment. Our results stand in such sharp contrast to the current literature because our analysis focuses on outcomes of the subpopulation induced by the program to move to a higher quality neighborhood, while previous analyses have focused on outcom...

Particle filter based on particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO-PF) is not precise and trapping in local optimum easily, it is not able to satisfy the requirement of advanced integrated navigation system. In order to solve these problems, a novel particle filter algorithm based on dynamic neighborhood population adaptive particle swarm optimization (DPSO-PF) is presented in this paper. This...