neurotoxicants present in water supply may affect human functions in terms of attention, response speed and perceptual motor speed. neurobehavioural performance can be influenced by gender, age and education levels. this study aims to assess the neurobehavioral performance of palm oil estate residents with private water supply in southern peninsular of malaysia.a total of 287 and 246 participan...

The task of associating images and videos with a natural language description has attracted a great amount of attention recently. The state-of-the-art results on some of the standard datasets have been pushed into the regime where it has become more and more difficult to make significant improvements. Instead of proposing new models, this work investigates performances that an oracle can obtain...

The Warfighter in the modern battlespace has a predetermined, but ever-changing, set of tasks that must be performed. Performance on these tasks is affected strongly by the amount and quality of the visual input, as well as by the resultant visual perception and cognitive performance. Visual perception is defined as the mental organization and interpretation of the visual sensory information wi...

When collaborators work on a physical task, seeing a common workspace transforms their language use and reduces their overall collaborative effort. This article shows how visual information can make communication more efficient. In an experiment, dyads collaborated on building a puzzle. They communicated without a shared visual space, using a shared space featuring immediately updated visual in...

The Video Analysis and Content Extraction (VACE) program supported the development of several key component technologies which could be integrated into systems for automatic analysis of human activities and understanding of video sequences. In order to measure system performance and gauge research progress, a series of evaluations focusing on 15 evaluation tasks were administered in this progra...

The feedback of biodiversity on individual trait variation is a poorly explored mechanistic pathway in ecological research. We analysed the relationship between biodiversity and individual performance by focusing on vocal mimicry, a widespread interaction that may serve in intra- and interspecific communication. We studied the songs of two lark species (genus Galerida) that increase the complex...

Asymmetrical hand function was examined in the context of expert sports performance: hitting in professional baseball. An archival study was conducted to examine the batting performance of all Major League Baseball players from 1871 to 1992, focusing on those who batted left (n = 1,059) to neutralize the game asymmetry. Among them, left-handers (n = 421) were more likely to hit with power and t...