An examination into some variables said to affect serial learning

An examination of the variables that affect express saccade generation.

The frequency with which express saccades are generated under a variety of conditions in rhesus monkeys was examined. Increasing the gap time between fixation spot termination and target onset increased express saccade frequency but was progressively less effective in doing so as the number of target positions in the sample was increased. Express saccades were rarely produced when two targets w...

Who Said We Need to Relax All Variables?

Despite its success in both satisficing and optimal planning, the delete relaxation has significant pitfalls in many important classes of planning domains, and it has been a challenge from the outset to devise heuristics that take some deletes into account. We herein devise an elegant and simple method for doing just that. In the context of finite-domain state variables, we define red variables...

Affect and learning: an exploratory look into the role of affect in learning with AutoTutor

The role that affective states play in learning was investigated from the perspective of a constructivist learning framework. We observed six different affect states (frustration, boredom, flow, confusion, eureka and neutral) that potentially occur during the process of learning introductory computer literacy with AutoTutor, an intelligent tutoring system with tutorial dialogue in natural langu...

An examination of serial murder in Australia

Building on earlier research undertaken at the Australian Institute of Criminology (Pinto & Wilson 1990), the current research explores the serial murder phenomenon in Australia using data collected as part of the Institute’s National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP). Results show that between July 1989 and June 2006, there were 11 groupings of serial murders identified in the NHMP, committed...

Overdiagnosis of intestinal amoebiasis associated to serial microscopical examination of faeces. Some precisions on a problem.