OBJECTIVES We investigated how fluctuations and linear changes in health and cognitive resources influence the motivation to engage in complex cognitive activity and the extent to which motivation mediated the relationship between changing resources and cognitively demanding activities. METHOD Longitudinal data from 332 adults aged 20-85 years were examined. Motivation was assessed using a co...

The purpose of this factorial study was to establish normative data for the Italian version of the Communication Attitude Test (CAT) in order to determine whether or not the speech-associated attitude reported by Italian children who stutter (CWS) differs significantly from that of their nonstuttering peers (CWNS). Toward this end, the Italian CAT was administered to 149 CWS and 148 CWNS betwee...

The foremost aim of presurgical epilepsy evaluation is the delineation of the seizure onset zone (SOZ). There is increasing evidence that fast epileptic activity (FEA, 14-250 Hz) occurring interictally, i.e. between seizures, is predominantly localized within the SOZ. Currently it is unknown, which frequency band of FEA performs best in identifying the SOZ, although prior studies suggest highes...

Spectral analysis is widely used for moisture determination in food. However, some types of food being composed of a number of different chemical constituents pose problems for accurate measurement of moisture due to shifts of peak spectral response and changes in peak spectral responses in the absorption bands. We investigate specific changes in spectral response to point out the spectral band...

Vocal effort changes induce various modifications to acoustic characteristics of speech. In this paper we investigate the impact of raised vocal effort on the speech spectrum. In particular, we look at different spectral parameters and compare the changes. The parameters we take into account are spectral tilt, spectral center of gravity, energy ratio and spectral moments. We carry out tests on ...

let $p$ be a prime number greater than three. in this paper, we prove the existence of a new family of homotopy elements in the stable homotopy groups of spheres $pi_{ast}(s)$ which is represented by $h_nh_mtilde{beta}_{s+2}in {rm ext}_a^{s+4, q[p^n+p^m+(s+2)p+(s+1)]+s}(mathbb{z}_p,mathbb{z}_p)$ up to nonzero scalar in the adams spectral sequence, where $ngeq m+2>5$, $0leq sext}_a^{s+2,q[(s+2)p...