The current study addresses the changing use of audio and visual cues in audio-visual speech perception during adulthood by testing young and middle-aged adults using stimuli with incongruent audio-visual consonants. Young adults gave more audio responses and fewer visual responses than middle-aged adults. Results show no age differences in auditory or visual sensitivity. The discrepancy in use...

Article history: Received 9 February 2011 Available online 8 July 2011 The current study investigated the role of approach and avoidance motives for unemployed job search behavior. Two approach motives (employment and PJ-fit) and two avoidance motives (low-expectation and low-interest) were distinguished. Antecedents and consequences of these motives were examined using a sample of 303 unemploy...

The current study examined whether preschoolers who are low achievers (LA) on mathematical tasks benefit more from a training programme that focuses on magnitude comparisons or ANS abilities (PLUS games) compared to games that target symbolic knowledge (DIGIT games). Twenty-four preschoolers played PLUS games and 21 children played DIGIT games 3 times per week for 5 weeks. Performance scores we...

Climatic data for the Continental United States for the 1850’s and 1860’s are compared with the currently valid normals. In the eastern half of the United States, these two decades continue the cooler and somewhat wetter character found in an earlier investigation, while in the western half, a distinctly warmer and decisively wetter climate existed in the mid-19th century, as compared to the co...

2 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my advisor, Karen Faulk, for all her help throughout the process of researching, writing, and refining this thesis. This project would not have been possible without her guidance and patience, and I am incredibly grateful she has been my advisor and mentor over the last year. I would also like to thank the History Department and the Global Studies facult...

Increasing user engagement is constant challenge for Intelligent Tutoring Systems researchers. A current trend in the ITS field is to increase engagement of proven learning systems by integrating them within games, or adding in game like components. Incorporating proven learning methods within a game based environment is expected to add to the overall experience without detracting from the orig...

It has been recently discussed in linguistics that the notion of identity in the task of coreference resolution is of continuous nature, ranging from “complete” identity to non-identity. The current paper confronts this idea with experimental data for Polish, resulting in a new approach to the notion of identity. It extends the definition of coreference with speaker/recipient relation, believed...

Telemedicine development in Taiwan has proliferated considerably since the 1990s, as manifested by its inclusion as a core application area in the National Infrastructure Initiative and other national initiatives. Judged by service volume and sustainability, all existing programs are largely in an experimental stage. The desired transition or advancement to real-world clinical settings requires...

As consumers rely on online customer reviews to assess the quality of products, firms often try to manipulate the reviews to attract consumers. If review sites fail to maintain reliability, firms are less likely to be motivated in improving quality of products. To alleviate fakery, online review providers have designed several identity disclosure mechanisms. The purpose of this research is to e...

Follow the real estate market to elevate temperature, government to real estate market macroeconomic regulation and control into social economy hot topic. In order to enable the macroeconomic regulation and control policy to achieve the expectation effect, this article proposed the real estate macroeconomic regulation and control should pay attention several questions.