The present study investigated whether preschool children could use the conventional “actions speak louder than words” principle (or the verbal-nonverbal consistency principle) to process information in situations where verbal cues contradict nonverbal cues. Three-, 4-, and 5-year-olds were shown a video in which an actor drank a beverage and made a verbal statement (e.g., “I like it”) that was...

In this research we have studied several human factors problems that are connected to the deployment of speaker veri cation technology in telecommunication services. We investigate the perception of the safety of a calling card service when it is protected by speaker veri cation on the 14 digit card number, and compare it to the perceived safety of speaker veri cation and PIN. Moreover, we comp...

The impact and cost of synthetic fertilizers as well as their associated risks on the environmental safety was becoming unaffordable. To alleviate these problems, integrating this synthetic fertilizers with easily available and an environment friendly compound like bio-char is of very high significance towards meeting our goal of increasing agricultural production and ensuring food security. Th...

objective massage therapy is one of the most widely used complementary and alternative medicine therapies for children. this study was conducted to determine the effect of swedish massage on the muscle tonicity of children with spastic cerebral palsy (cp). materials & methods this study was a single blind clinical trial conducted on forty children with spastic cp, recruited from clinics of the ...

For a Boolean Matrix A a binary vector v is called tfrequent if Av has at least t entries of value supp (v). Given two parameters t1 < t2 the t1-frequent but t2-infrequent vectors of a matrix represent a Boolean function that has two domains of (opposite) monotonicity. These functions were studied for the purpose of data analysis and abstract concept discovery in (Eisenschmidt et al. 2010). In ...