Can elderly adults automatize a new task? To address this question, 10 older adults each performed 10,080 training trials over 12 sessions on an easy but novel task. The psychological refractory period (PRP) procedure was then used to evaluate whether this highly practiced task, when presented as task 2 along with an unpracticed task 1, could proceed automatically. If automatic, task 2 processi...

In this paper, we examine the role of recessions on the relative forecasting performance of the Fed and the private sector. Romer and Romer (2000) show that the Fed’s forecasts of in‡ation and output were superior to that of the private sector for the pre-1991 period. D’Agostino and Whelan (2007) …ndings suggest that the information superiority of the Fed deteriorated after 1991. Our results sh...

While hundreds of scientific and artistic studies have been undertaken about Yunus Emre, one the most important figures Turkish culture literature, only a few bibliographic chosen to compile these studies. Moreover, some are quite narrow in scope. There has rapid increase literature Emre since first comprehensive study covering period up 1991. However, it remains major shortcoming field that bi...

AIM To analyze the trends of pancreatic cancer mortality in Serbia. METHODS The study covered the population of Serbia in the period 1991 to 2010. Mortality trends were assessed by the joinpoint regression analysis by age and sex. RESULTS Age-standardized mortality rates ranged from 5.93 to 8.57 per 100 000 in men and from 3.51 to 5.79 per 100 000 in women. Pancreatic cancer mortality in al...

The roots of the Lithuanian political system precede emergence modern state in 1918 by several decades. For over a hundred years before independence, Lithuania was an integrated part imperial tsarist Russia, and 1940–1991, union republic USSR. After regaining independence 1991, while shaping new system, elite decided to refer systemic institutional patterns from short period functioning democra...

Atmospheric precipitation during cyclonic situations was analyzed using weather types classification. Based on data from the period 1991 to 2015, observed were in terms of their frequency days with a given type. Cyclonic airflow direction west and northwest, north northeast, east southeast, south southwest analyzed. We identified declining number that can be classified as situations. The distri...