Reminiscing is a positive pastime for people with dementia but little is known about selecting materials to prompt reminiscing, particularly whether personal items are more useful than generic ones. This paper reports two small studies, the first using personal stimuli (family photographs) and the second generic photographs of annual events to examine their relative effectiveness as reminiscenc...

We analyzed phonological and visual information processes of four Japanese dyslexic children between 710 years of age. None of them had disability in word retrieval and/or auditory memory. Two of them manifested lower score in phonological awareness tests while the others showed normal score. All children showed subnormal score in a visual cognitive test, a visuo-spacial constructional test, an...

We present an efficient algorithm for identification of two-line bridges in combinational CMOS logic that narrows down the two-line bridge candidates based on tester responses for voltage tests. Due to the implicit enumeration of bridge sites, no layout extraction or precomputed stuck-at fault dictionaries are required. The bridge identification is easily refined using additional test pattern r...

Various strategies employed in genomic DNA cloning by subtractive hybridization have been examined by computer simulations, with the comparison between the predictions and the published results. The result shows that the efficiency of target sequence enrichment and the sensitivity to experimental conditions depend strongly on the enrichment strategy employed. The strategy selecting only tester/...

This paper suggests two test architectures for testing distributed, concurrent systems: a global tester that has total control over the distributed system under test (SUT) and, more interestingly, a distributed tester comprising several concurrent tester components. The test architectures rely on a grey-box testing approach that allows to observe internal interactions of the SUT by the tester. ...

Heterosis and combining ability were calculated for 13 different morphological, yield, quality-related traits of 18 F1 Brassica napus hybrids developed through line × tester mating design using 6 lines 3 testers along with their parents. Line ANOVA revealed highly significant results among all characters except primary branches per plant. ZM-R-2 (tester) was identified as a good general combine...