The effect of lexical competition on recall performance was studied using the release from proactive interference paradigm. Word triads were equated in terms of local neighborhood density but varied on global neighborhood density, neighborhood frequency, and word frequency to create sets of lexically “easy” and “hard” words. Proactive interference was built up across four trials of either “easy...

Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is a type of performance measurement that evaluates the success of an organization or a partial activity in which it engages. If during the running process instance the monitoring results show that the KPIs do not reach their target values, then the influential factors should be identified, and the appropriate adaptation strategies should be performed to prevent ...

We designed a secure key registration system based on the proactive secret-sharing scheme. A user can register important data such as a session key to a distributed system in a (t, n)-threshold scheme, which means that the data can be recovered if t servers cooperate (in other words, that the data cannot be revealed unless t servers collude). The proactive scheme provides stronger security agai...

SUMMARY Diagnostic residual and partial residual plots are proposed to identify nonlinearity in covariates for generalized linear models. It is shown that these plots are complement each other in the detection of nonlinearity. In addition, a transformed additive model which allows the resulting residual and partial residual plots to be obtained through the standard least squares approach is pro...