An experiment was designed to investigate whether an easy-to-difficult or a difficult-to-easy practice order is best for motor learning. The motor skill used was a fine-motor, bimanual, lever-positioning task with movement complexity as the difficulty variable, which had yet to be studied. One group learned the skill in an easy-to-difficult order with the combination of the two lever movements ...

Two experiments examined the influence of practice with, and the expectancy of, open-book tests (students viewed studied material while taking the test) versus closed-book tests (students completed the test without viewing the studied material) on delayed retention and transfer. Using GRE materials specifically designed for open-book testing, participants studied passages and then took initial ...

PURPOSE Negotiating transitions and residential relocation are especially difficult for residents with dementia and their families. This article examined the decision-making process regarding retention or transfer of persons with dementia in assisted living facilities. DESIGN AND METHODS Using an ethnographic approach, this study observed residents and facility life, and interviewed residents...

Fluorosulfonamide additives improve the capacity retention of graphite toward high performance potassium ion batteries. Such produce unique SEIs with different compositions, stability, and charge transfer properties.

csMTL, or context-sensitive Multiple Task Learning, is presented as a method of inductive transfer that uses a single output neural network and additional contextual inputs for learning multiple tasks. The csMTL approach is demonstrated to produce hypotheses that are equivalent to or better than standard MTL hypotheses when learning a primary task in the presence of related and unrelated tasks....

[1] Partitioning of volatile chemicals among the gas, liquid, and solid phases during the conversion of liquid water to ice in clouds can impact distributions of chemicals in precipitation and in the poststorm troposphere. In this paper, we extend a theoretical scaling model of chemical retention during hydrometeor freezing to all dry growth riming conditions. We account for spreading of drops ...

the performance of a γ-al 2 o 3 /n-decane nanofluid shell-and-tube heat exchanger in a biomass heating plant is analyzed to specify the optimum condition based on the maximum heat transfer rate and performance index for wide range of nanoparticle volume fraction (0–7%). compared with pure          n-decane, the obtained results in this research show that by using γ-al 2 o 3 /n-decane nanofluid ...

The fluorination modification improved the oxidation voltage of GPE and facilitated movement polymer chain transfer Li + . capacity retention NCM811|0.4TGD-0.4TFM-TCGG-SiO 2 NF|Li cell reached 91% after 260 cycles at 2C.

Despite the notable success of some Free Libre Open Source (FLOSS) projects, the overwhelming majority of FLOSS initiatives fail, mostly because of insufficient longterm participation of developers. In contrast to previous research which focuses on the individual perspective, we approach developer retention from an organizational perspective to help existing project members identify potential l...