It is well known that visual working memory (VWM) performance is modulated by attentional cues presented during encoding. Interestingly, retrospective cues presented after encoding, but prior to the test phase also improve performance. This improvement in performance is termed the retro-cue benefit. We investigated whether the retro-cue benefit is sensitive to cue type, whether participants wer...

We must frequently adapt our movements in order to successfully perform motor tasks. These visuomotor adaptations can occur with or without our awareness and so, have generally been described by two mechanisms: strategic control and spatial realignment. Strategic control is a conscious modification used when discordance between an intended and actual movement is observed. Spatial realignment is...

Business managers are facing the dynamic environment nowadays, and encountering more and more difficulties in decision-making. In order to formulate suitable strategies, they must consider all aspects of dynamic environments and situations which they meet. Sun Tzu's The Art of War is probably the oldest military book in Chinese and the principles which Sun Tzu advocated are still valuable in ma...

Defence Research and Development Canada – Valcartier has sponsored the development a Conceptual Operational Model of the strategic planning process within the Canadian Forces Joint Staff. This model is intended to convey an understanding of the processes within the headquarters for planning and monitoring international missions. As such, it captures the command and control processes at the stra...

Human social exchange is often characterized by conflicts of interest requiring strategic behavior for their resolution. To investigate the development of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying strategic behavior, we studied children's decisions while they played two types of economic exchange games with differing demands of strategic behavior. We show an increase of strategic behavior ...

This research is about Management control system (MCS) and how components of MCS are adapted according to the organisational changes. This is a single case study of a real estate service providing limited company in Finland. Case Company wants to ensure the strategy execution by improving its MCS and measurement systems. The research is a constructive research of MCS in Case Company. I work tog...

Strategic management involves decision-making about an organization's objectives together with the formulation and implementation of plans, particularly regarding the allocation of resources, to support their achievement. As such, strategic management is a dynamic and complex process involving consideration of internal and external factors, and the short and long term. The effectiveness of an o...

To improve the scalability of the Web it is common practice to apply caching and replication techniques. Numerous strategies for placing and maintaining multiple copies of Web documents at several sites have been proposed. These approaches essentially apply a global strategy by which a single family of protocols is used to choose replication sites and keep copies mutually consistent. We propose...

We show how to synthesize simple, yet well-performing feedback strategies that mimic the behavior of optimization-based controllers, such as those based on model predictive control (MPC). The approach is based on employing regression trees to derive dependence of real-valued control inputs on measurements. Quality of classical regression policies is improved by finding, simultaneously, optimal ...

Performance on serial tasks is influenced by first- and higher-order sequential effects, respectively, due to the immediately previous and earlier trials. As response-to-stimulus interval (RSI) increases, the pattern of reaction times transits from a benefit-only mode, traditionally ascribed to automatic facilitation (AF), to a cost-benefit mode, due to strategic expectancy (SE). To illuminate ...