The objective of the current investigation is to replicate the results of a previous study on subgrouping of poor readers. One important aim of the study to be replicated was to develop tools, not only for identifying poor readers, which is a rather straightforward task, but also for examining the pattern of poor reading based on a theoretical analysis of the reading process. Eight distinct sub...

Little is known about the association between personality disorders and neuropsychological test performance in chronic cocaine users. The aims of the present study were to (1) pinpoint the specific neuropsychological characteristics of chronic cocaine abusers, (2) analyze their personality profile, and (3) explore the association between personality traits and neuropsychological test performanc...

This paper introduces a modification on the movement force vector of the Birbil and Fang’s electromagnetism-like algorithm [1] for solving global optimization problems with bounded variables. The proposed movement vector combines the total force exerted on each point of the population, at the current iteration, with the rate of change in the force vector of a previous iteration. Several widely ...

In this paper, a novel study on system profiles and adaptation of parameters for end-users of content-based indexing and retrieval (CBIR) applications are presented. The main objective of the study is improving the overall CBIR application performance in different hardware platforms having different technical capabilities and conditions. We define CBIR system profiles in terms of hardware and s...

Software metrics are the key performance indicators, using which the performance of a system can be assessed quantitatively. Metrics can also be applied for personalized web search which can be used to retrieve relevant results for each individual user depending on their unique profile. Although personalized search based on user profile has been under research for many years and various metrics...

BACKGROUND the assessment of the auditory processing is a useful procedure to detect deficits not only related to sound reception but also to the analysis and organization of sound information, which in turn leads to a therapeutic process that aims at the maximization of communication. AIM to characterize normal score patterns in a auditory processing screening test, applied in 40 children wi...

an eight week study was conducted to investigate the effect of inclusion of tomato waste meal in layer diets on laying performance, egg quality and lipid profile as a means to reduce feed cost and pollution. four laying diets containing tomato waste meal (twm) at four levels of 0, 3, 6 or 9% were assigned randomly to 4 groups of 40 birds divided among four replicates of 10 birds in each dietary...

future increase of mobile communication subscribers will require a great capacity expansion of the cellular systems. in order to accommodate the increasing number of subscribers, the cell size will have to be much smaller than current size. therefore, it is predictable that the location updating and paging procedures will produce a major part of signaling traffic in these networks. this pape...

one of the most common signals used for achieving high range resolution in radar is stepped-frequency signals. when a target is stationary in these radars, dft (discrete fourier transform) based processing is used to attain high range resolution profile (hrrp). however, in the case of moving target, due to spreading of the echo signal spectrum, dft based processing is not optimal and decreases ...