Three experiments tested whether a modified version of the Clustered Conceptual Span task (H. J. Haarmann, E. J. Davelaar, & M. Usher, 2003), which ostensibly requires active maintenance of semantic representations, predicted individual differences in higher-order cognitive abilities better than short-term memory (STM) span tasks or non-semantic versions of the “Conceptual” task did. Non-semant...

This is a report summarising results from studies of true subglottal pressure, supraglottal pressure and speech wave data. We have derived co-variation patterns, which allow a prediction of intensity from subglottal pressure and F0, and conversely a prediction of a subglottal pressure contour from F0 and intensity. Of special interest is the significance of a mid-point in a speakers’ available ...

On February 8th, the Minister of Health announced the composition of the new Committees on Clinical Psychiatry and on the Epideminology of Mental Disorders under the chairmanship respectively of Professor Sir George Pickering and Professor Sir Aubrey Lewis. Each Committee, the Minister said, had appointed working parties to study special aspects of its field, such as the psychopathic personalit...

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Based on the executive-attention theory of working memory capacity (WMC; e.g., Kane, Conway, Hambrick, & Engle, 2007) we tested the relations among WMC, mind wandering, and goal neglect in a sustained-attention-to-response task (SART; a go/no-go task). In three SART versions, making conceptual versus perceptual processing demands, subjects periodically indicated their thought content when probe...

The potential of hand shape and hand texture-based biometry is investigated and algorithms are developed. Feature extraction stage is preceded by meticulous registration of the deformable shape of the hand. Alternative features addressing hand shape and hand texture are compared. Independent component analysis features prove to be the best performing in the identification and verification tasks...

At the recent ISUOG meeting in Los Angeles, there was great debate about the current cut-off s we use to defi ne miscarriage using transvaginal ultrasound. In particular, the guidelines used by both the RCOG and ASUM are not conservative enough and may lead to false positive diagnosis of miscarriage. In routine practice, when there is a suspicion of a non-viable pregnancy, we rely on the measur...