This paper describes the creation of a public data access webpage that will allow people not affiliated with the Double Chooz experiment to understand exactly how the value of θ13 was measured by the experiment. Double Chooz is a a two detector neutrino experiment based in Chooz, France that has run since 2011. In this paper, I go into the background of neutrinos and the math behind them. I the...

List navigation devices such as scrollbars provide a simple way to browse and find items in a list, but they typically do not communicate information about individual list entries. This paper presents two alternative devices, a mural bar and a pile bar, which encode information about each entry into the trough of the bar. Results from an experiment suggest that these new devices lead to improve...

Verbal learning tests (VLTs) are widely used to evaluate memory deficits in neuropsychiatric and developmental disorders. However, their validity has been called into question by studies showing significant differences in VLT scores obtained by different examiners. Here we describe the computerized Bay Area Verbal Learning Test (BAVLT), which minimizes inter-examiner differences by incorporatin...

In list method directed forgetting, instructing people to forget a studied word list usually results in better recall for a newly studied list. Sahakyan and Delaney (2003) have suggested that these benefits are due to a change in encoding strategy that occurs between the study of the first list and the study of the second list. To investigate what might mediate such strategy change decisions, i...

In a double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment that used midazolam, a benzodiazepine that creates temporary amnesia, we compared acquisition and retention of paired associates of different types. Some word pairs were studied before the injection of saline or midazolam, and two lists of word pairs were studied after the injection. Critical comparisons involved retention of pairs that were prac...

The effect of organization on recognition memory was investigated in two experiments. In both experiments, a categorized list was presented for study with instances of a given category being either blocked or distributed randomly throughout the list. The order of items in the recognition test was of varied similarity to their order within the blocked study list. Results indicated that the effec...

Two experiments investigated whether young and old adults can temporarily remove information from a capacity-limited central component of working memory (WM) into another component, the activated part of long-term memory (LTM). Experiment 1 used a modified Sternberg recognition task (S. Sternberg, 1969); Experiment 2 used an arithmetic memory-updating task. In both paradigms, participants memor...

Monkey auditory memory was tested with increasing list lengths of 4, 6, 8, and 10 sounds. Five-hundred and twenty environmental sounds of 3-s duration were used. In Experiment 1, the monkeys initiated each list by touching the center speaker. They touched 1 of 2 side speakers to indicate whether a single test sound (presented from both side speakers simultaneously) was or was not in the list. T...

This paper investigates the usefulness of a new priority list for two-processor scheduling problem of program nets. Firstly, we discuss the weakness of a previously proposed priority list and then introduce a new priority list. Through simulation experiment we show that the new priority list is better than the previous one and can generate the same length of schedules as GA scheduling, which im...