Treadmill running was evaluated as a phenotype for selective breeding for high- and low-endurance performance from a starting population of 18 male and 24 female outbred Sprague-Dawley rats. Each rat was exercised to exhaustion once per day for 5 consecutive days. The treadmill was set at a constant 15° slope, and the initial velocity of 10 m/min was increased by 1 m/min every 2 min. The total ...

A gapped repeat (respectively, palindrome) occurring in a word w is a factor uvu (respectively, uvu) of w. In such a repeat (palindrome) u is called the arm of the repeat (respectively, palindrome), while v is called the gap. We show how to compute efficiently, for every position i of the word w, the longest gapped repeat and palindrome occurring at that position, provided that the length of th...

In this paper, we proposed a new region extraction method using chroma key with a two-tone checker pattern background. This method solves the problem in conventional chroma key techniques that foreground objects become transparent if they have the same color with the background. The method utilizes the adjacency condition between two-tone regions of the background and the geometrical informatio...

Although differences in selective attention skills have been identified in children from lower compared to higher socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, little is known about these differences in early childhood, a time of rapid attention development. The current study evaluated the development of neural systems for selective attention in children from lower SES backgrounds. Event-related pote...

Xuechao Duan 1,2,*, Jianwei Mi 1 and Ze Zhao 1 1 Key Laboratory of Electronic Equipment Structure Design, Ministry of Education of China, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China; [email protected] (J.M.); [email protected] (Z.Z.) 2 Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +86-29-8...

A rich body of research concerns causes of Stroop effects plus applications of Stroop. However, several questions remain. We included assessment of errors with children and adults (N = 316), who sat either a task wherein each block employed only trials of one type (unmixed task) or where every block comprised of a mix of the congruent, neutral, and incongruent trials. Children responded slower ...

This paper is concerned with a real world case study in Business/IT alignment at the strategic level. The case study is situated in the Dutch public sector, involving the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SAE). In this case study, the GEA (Generic Enterprise Architecting) method was used. This paper will therefore take the GEA method as a given. Nevertheless, to better understand and a...

Leading a blind or blindfolded person is a complex cooperative task influenced by many factors. The aim of this study was to determine if quality of attachment affects the performance of dog and owner dyads showed on an Obstacle Course. Modified Ainsworth's Strange Situation Test was used for assessing attachment quality. Only one dimension of the attachment, the 'anxiety' factor was found to c...