Disturbances often lead to changes in average values of community properties; however, disturbances can also affect the predictability of a community's response. We performed a meta-analysis to determine how response predictability, defined as among-replicate variance in diversity and community abundance, is affected by species removals, species invasions, nutrient addition, temperature increas...

An eye movement experiment was conducted to examine effects of local lexical predictability on fixation durations and fixation locations during sentence reading. In the high-predictability condition, a verb strongly constrained the lexical identity of the following word, while in the low-predictability condition the target word could not be predicted on the basis of the verb. The results showed...

The association of nonverbal predictability and brain activation was examined using functional magnetic resonance imaging in humans. Participants regarded four squares displayed horizontally across a screen and counted the incidence of a particular color. A repeating spatial sequence with varying levels of predictability was embedded within a random color presentation. Both Wernicke's area and ...

We address the problem of predicting events’ occurrences in partially observable timed systems modelled by timed automata. Our contribution is manyfold: 1) we give a definition of bounded predictability, namely k-predictability, that takes into account the minimum delay between the prediction and the actual event’s occurrence; 2) we show that 0-predictability is equivalent to the original notio...

The objective of this study, conducted at a large financial services organisation in Australia, was to examine the effect of peer timeliness and peer communication predictability on cognition-based trust in virtual workers. The results indicated that neither timeliness nor predictability explained a notable amount of variance in the level of cognition-based trust in virtual workers. Peer timeli...

Define the predictability number α(G) of a tournament T to be the largest supermajority threshhold 1 2 < α ≤ 1 for which T could represent the pairwise voting outcomes from some population of voter preference orders. We establish that the predictability number always exists and is rational. Only acyclic tournaments have predictability 1; the Condorcet voting paradox tournament has predictabilit...

PURPOSE To analyze the predictability of sentences used in the protocol for the assessment of intelligibility of dysarthric speech. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in 120 volunteers divided randomly into four groups of 30 individuals.Based on the list of 25 sentences from the protocol, four versions of lists were elaborated. In each version, a different target word was omitted f...

Abstruct-The problem of predicting the next outcome of an individual binary sequence using finite memory, is considered. The finite-state predictability of an infinite sequence is defined as the minimum fraction of prediction errors that can be made by any finite-state (FS) predictor. It is proved that this FS predictability can be attained by universal sequential prediction schemes. Specifical...

Responses are quicker to predictable stimuli than if the time and place of appearance is uncertain. Studies that manipulate target predictability often involve overt cues to speed up response times. However, less is known about whether individuals will exhibit faster response times when target predictability is embedded within the inter-trial relationships. The current research examined the com...

Given a set X of sequences over a finite alphabet, we investigate the following three quantities. (i) The feasible predictability of X is the highest success ratio that a polynomialtime randomized predictor can achieve on all sequences in X. (ii) The deterministic feasible predictability of X is the highest success ratio that a polynomial-time deterministic predictor can achieve on all sequence...