This study reports the reading of 11 Arabic-speaking individuals with letter position dyslexia (LPD), and the effect of letter form on their reading errors. LPD is a peripheral dyslexia caused by a selective deficit to letter position encoding in the orthographic-visual analyzer, which results in migration of letters within words, primarily of middle letters. The Arabic orthography is especiall...

This article presents a method for passivating the communication channel of a symmetric position-position teleoperation architecture on the time domain. The time domain passivity control approach has recently gained appeal in the context of timedelayed teleoperation because passivity is not established as a design constraint, which often forces conservative rules, but rather as a property which...

introduction: the main objective of all organizations is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the personnel’s performance and this partly depends on effective management. managers are valuable assets and studying their behavior and personality dimensions may provide important guide for effectiveness and efficiency improvement. in this connection, the objective of this research is to d...

Suppose we are interested in the effect of a binary treatment on an outcome where that relationship is confounded by an ordinal confounder. We assume that the true confounder is not observed, rather we observe a nondifferentially mismeasured version of it. We show that under certain monotonicity assumptions about its effect on the treatment and on the outcome, an effect measure controlling for ...

Implicit learning of sequential structures has been investigated mostly for visual, spatial, or motor learning, but rarely for temporal structure learning. The few experiments investigating temporal structure learning have concluded that temporal structures can be learned only when coupled with another structural dimension, such as musical pitch or spatial location. In these studies, the tempor...

Task demands modulate tactile localization in sighted humans, presumably through weight adjustments in the spatial integration of anatomical, skin-based, and external, posture-based information. In contrast, previous studies have suggested that congenitally blind humans, by default, refrain from automatic spatial integration and localize touch using only skin-based information. Here, sighted an...

Attending to a manipulable object evokes a mental representation of hand actions associated with the object's form and function. In one view, these representations are sufficiently abstract that their competing influence on an unrelated action is confined to the planning stages of movement and does not affect its on-line control. Alternatively, an object may evoke action representations that af...

Extracting reliable 3D facial deformation parameters from static facial postures is a major component of our system for audiovisual synthesis. This paper describes several important improvements to that process, including reduction of position alignment errors, simplification of the generic face mesh and, most important, increasing the range and variety of static postures used.

(A for ‘above’; B for ‘below.’) A lattice satisfying this condition is called finitely separable. It is easy to see that every countable lattice is finitely separable. We used this to show the following surprising result: the ordinal sum of two free lattices is projective if and only if one of them is finitely generated or both are countable. In this note we give a complete characterization of ...

interview, whereas for the others it was based on filling in a questionnaire. However, an earlier study found no differences between these two ways of responding [10]. We conclude that the Norwegian 16-item FES-I has good psychometric properties and that the seven-item version has very similar properties in fall-prone older persons. Data on sensitivity to change are needed in order to determine...