The precedence effect has been viewed in the literature mostly as an independent mechanism of the auditory system with the aim to alleviate interfering effects of reflections. The precedence effect process is mostly thought to be bottom-up, as are the models of it, but some literature also suggests high level influence [1, 3]. Our previous results on precedence with cochlear implant simulations...

Background : Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a contagious viral illness that commonly affects infants and children. This infection is an emerging infectious disease in Rizhao in recent years. The present study examined the short-term effects of meteorological factors on adolescent HFMD in Rizhao. Design : A generalized additive Poisson model was applied to estimate the effects of meteor...

This research extends extant literature examining the relationship between IS use and performance. While prior theory has predominantly treated IS use as an antecedent of performance and hypothesized a positive effect of use on performance, this research provides an alternative perspective. Specifically, this paper theorizes that under certain contexts performance can be an antecedent of use an...

there is no agreement among different economic schools about role of monetary policy in stabilization policy. new classic by means of rational expectations show that only unanticipated monetary policy influences upon real variables. how ever new keynsian by means of rational expectations shows that anticipated monetary policy influences real ariables too. the present article investigates above ...

Abstract—There exists some time lag between the consumption of inputs and the production of outputs. This time lag effect should be considered in calculating efficiency of decision making units (DMU). Recently, a couple of DEA models were developed for considering time lag effect in efficiency evaluation of research activities. However, these models can’t discriminate efficient DMUs because of ...

The fundamental solution of the system of differential equations in bio-thermoelasticity with dual phase lag (DPL) in case of steady oscillations in terms of elementary function is constructed and basic property is established. The tissue is considered as an isotropic medium and the propagation of plane harmonic waves is studied. The Christoffel equations are obtained and modified with the ther...

Short-term health effects of ambient PM2.5 have been established with numerous studies, but evidence in Asian countries is limited. This study aimed to investigate the short-term effects of PM2.5 on acute health outcomes, particularly all-cause, cardiovascular, respiratory, cerebrovascular and neuropsychological outcomes. We utilized daily emergency ambulance dispatches (EAD) data from eight Ja...

We investigated how observers' control of the stimulus change affects temporal aspects of visual perception. We compared the flash-lag effects for motion (Experiment 1) and for luminance (Experiment 2) under several conditions that differed in the degree of the observers' control of change in a stimulus. The flash-lag effect was salient if the observers passively viewed the automatic change in ...