In task-switching paradigms, performance is better when repeating the same task than when alternating between tasks (switch cost) and when repeating a task alone rather than intermixed with another task (mixing cost). These costs remain even after extensive practice and when task cues enable advanced preparation (residual costs). Moreover, residual reaction time mixing cost has been consistentl...

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Accessory splenectomy should be considered in any patient with recurrence of immune thrombocytopenic purpura, if studies (scintigraphy using heat-damaged Tc99m-labeled red blood cells) are suggestive of residual functional splenic tissue. The most common benefit after removal of accessory spleen seems to be the reduction of dose in medical treatment.

Eculizumab inhibits the terminal, lytic pathway of complement by blocking the activation of the complement protein C5 and shows remarkable clinical benefits in certain complement-mediated diseases. However, several reports suggest that activation of C5 is not always completely suppressed in patients even under excess of eculizumab over C5, indicating that residual C5 activity may derogate the d...

Organic solvents are constantly present in the pharmaceutical production processes. They are usually used at any step of the synthesis pathway during the drug product formulation process. Organic solvents play an important role in the pharmaceutical industry, and appropriate selection of the solvents for the synthesis of drug substance may enhance the yield, or determine characteristics such as...

Background. Electric-acoustic stimulation (EAS) is an excellent choice for people with residual hearing in low frequencies but not high frequencies and who derive insufficient benefit from hearing aids. For EAS to be effective, subjects' residual hearing must be preserved during cochlear implant (CI) surgery. Methods. We implanted 6 subjects with a CI. We used a special surgical technique and a...

Importance measures have been widely used as meaningful decision-aiding indicators in reliability engineering, risk management and maintenance optimization. However, few importance integrates the actual condition (working states or degradation levels) of components that dynamically evolves with time. This work develops a novel time-dependent measure defined capacity component (or group componen...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of substantial preoperative residual hearing on speech perception outcomes in adult cochlear implant recipients. SETTING Tertiary care academic referral center. METHODS Twenty-nine patients with substantial preoperative residual hearing underwent cochlear implantation. Twenty-one implant recipients matched for age and duration of hearing loss, but without preo...

Residual vector quantization (RVQ), tree-structured RVQ (TRVQ), and full-search tree-structured RVQ (FSTRVQ) are presented as techniques which exploit the benefit of vector quantization (VQ), while maintaining manageable memory and computational complexity. RVQ provides linear growth in memory and computational complexity with basic codebook size, compared to the exponential growth of full sear...

Moral Hazard and Cash Benefits in Long-Term Home Care ∗ This paper tests empirically for ex-post moral hazard in a system based on demand-side subsidies. In the Netherlands, demand-side subsidies were introduced in 1996. Clients receive a cash benefit to purchase the type of home care (housework, personal care, support with mobility, organisational tasks or social support) they need from the ca...