Recent meta-analytic evidence suggests that clinical neuropsychological methods are not likely to uncover circumscribed cognitive impairments in the deficit syndrome of schizophrenia. To overcome this issue, we adapted a cognitive neuroscience perspective and used a new "chaining" habit learning task. Participants were requested to navigate a cartoon character through a sequence of 4 rooms by l...

We consider the problem of searching a polygonal room with two guards starting at a specified door point. While maintaining mutual visibility and without crossing the door, the guards must move along the boundary of the room and eventually meet again. We give polynomial time algorithms for finding a search schedule that minimizes the total distance travelled by the guards and for minimizing the...

This paper proposes global localization for mobile robot by introducing local goal based navigation and model-based object recognition. In navigation stage, the robot follows the wall while detecting a door using a laser scanner, and then sets up the local goal near detected door. In recognition stage, room number is recognized and also ambiguous room number is rejected by multistage rejection ...

A concrete room with a single-legged maze was constructed in order to simulate a medical accelerator room. Gamma and neutron measurements were performed along the maze with a) a 252 Cf source and b) a tungstenmoderated Cf source placed inside the room. The measurements were repeated after placing an inner borated polyethylene door of varying thickness (2.54 -10.16 cm) at 2 different locations. ...

Studies of the testing effect have shown that retrieval significantly improves learning. However, most of these studies have been restricted to simple types of declarative verbal knowledge. Five experiments were designed to explore whether testing improves acquisition of route knowledge, which has a procedural component consisting of actions to be performed at decision points (Golledge, 1991). ...

Electronic door locks have recently become popular since they have many benefits compared with traditional mechanical locks. For example, in the case of keyless locks which are the most popular types of electronic door locks, a physical key is not needed anymore. They might also be invulnerable to the existing physical attacks against mechanical door locks[1]. Despite these known benefits of el...

We report on a large number of laboratory market experiments demonstrating that a market bubble can be reduced under the following conditions: 1) a low initial liquidity level, i.e., less total cash than value of total shares, 2) deferred dividends, and 3) a bid–ask book that is open to traders. Conversely, a large bubble arises when the opposite conditions exist. The first part of the article ...

Automatic door is an automated movable barrier installed in the entry of a room or building to restrict access, provide ease of opening a door or provide visual privacy. As a result of enhanced civilization and modernization, the human nature demands more comfort to his life. The man seeks ways to do things easily and which saves time. So thus, the automatic gates are one of the examples that h...

Improving rates of hand hygiene compliance (HHC) has been shown to reduce nosocomial disease. We compared the HHC for a traditional wall-mounted unit and a novel sanitizer-dispensing door handle device in a hospital inpatient ultrasound area. HHC increased 24.5%-77.1% (P < .001) for the exam room with the sanitizer-dispensing door handle, whereas it remained unchanged for the other rooms. Techn...

BACKGROUND An adequate door-to-balloon time (<120 minutes) is the necessary condition for the efficacy of primary angioplasty in infarction to translate into effectiveness. OBJECTIVE To describe the effectiveness of a quality of care protocol in reducing the door-to-balloon time. METHODS Between May 2010 and August 2012, all individuals undergoing primary angioplasty in our hospital were an...