We combined behavioral and electrophysiological measures to find out whether redundancy gain effects in pop-out visual search are exclusively determined by bottom-up salience or are modulated by top-down task search goals. Search arrays contained feature singletons that could be defined in a single dimension (color or shape) or redundantly in both dimensions. In the baseline condition, both col...

Multi-target tracking techniques increasingly exploit contextual information about group dynamics. However, approaches established in pedestrian tracking make assumptions about features and motion models which are often inappropriate to sports team tracking, where motion is erratic and players wear similar uniforms with frequent interplayer occlusions. On the other hand, approaches designed spe...

We propose a multilayered multiagent simulator that can simulate traffic in any urban environment on earth, subject to specific weather conditions. We adopt an agent-based approach for the behaviors of the vehicles and the drivers. We additionally propose a behavioral model to realistically emulate the driving behaviors of humans.

OBJECTIVE To develop and test the reliability and validity of the State Behavioral Scale for use in describing sedation/agitation levels in young intubated patients supported on mechanical ventilation. DESIGN : In this prospective, psychometric evaluation, pairs of trained pediatric critical care nurse evaluators simultaneously and independently assessed a convenience sample of pediatric inte...

BackgroundNutrition behaviors of adolescent girls is of serious health concerns. Although nutrition education interventions in Iran have met with some success, most of them could not promote nutrition behavioral changes. The aim of our study is to determine a school-based nutrition education intervention to improve adolescents’ nutrition behaviors and behavioral mediators based on the social co...

Multi-agent systems allow the simulation of complex phenomena that cannot easily be described analytically. Multi-agent approaches are often based on coordinating agents whose actions and interactions are related to the emergence of the phenomenon to be simulated. In this article, we focus on road traffic simulation, specifically the design of a road traffic simulation tool able to deal realist...

In smart technological solutions, interactive installations, multi-touch surfaces are all around us nowadays. In particular, pupils, who are digital native, are keen on these devices. So the adoption of these smart technologies could be an interesting approach to capture their attention. DADODICE (DD), our latest interactive installation, takes advantage of this trend. DD, in fact, is especiall...