Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) can help to reduce transport emissions; however, user behaviour has a significant effect on the energy savings actually achieved in everyday usage. The present research aimed to advance understanding of HEV drivers' ecodriving strategies, and the challenges for optimal user-energy interaction. We conducted interviews with 39 HEV drivers who achieved above-average...

Reliable perception is required in order for robots to operate safely in unpredictable and complex human environments. However, reliability of perceptual inference algorithms has been poorly studied so far. These algorithms capture uncertain knowledge about the world in the form of probabilistic belief distributions. A number of Monte Carlo and deterministic approaches have been developed, but ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is a common sleep disorder associated with a myriad of sequelae. OSAHS is effectively treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy. However, fewer than 50% of patients are compliant with their CPAP therapy prescriptions. The current study sought to explore an integrated, biopsychological approach to CPAP adher...

In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale that will serve determine the self-efficacy beliefs of pre-service teachers in creating an effective learning environment. The belief for environment developed line with opinions field experts and education faculty students by scanning literature. trial form consists 79 items. Content validity, construct reliability, item-based validity studies wer...

Bu araştırma, beden eğitimi ve spor bölümü öğretmen adaylarının öğrenmeye ilişkin epistemolojik inançları ile öz-yeterlik algıları arasındaki ilişkiyi araştırmak amacıyla yapılmıştır. Araştırmada katılımcı grup basit seçkisiz örnekleme yöntemi kullanılarak belirlenmiştir. Türkiye’de farklı coğrafi bölgelerde yer alan yedi üniversiteden 1135 öğretmeni adayından oluşmaktadır. Katılımcıların görüş...

We study the stability of voluntary cooperation in response to varying group growth rates. Using a laboratory public-good game, we construct a situation where increasing group size yields potential efficiency gains, but only with sustained cooperation. We then study the effect of exogenously varying growth rates on cooperation. Slow growth yields higher cooperation rates and welfare than fast g...

The literature on pretrial dispute settlement has focused the effect of first-order uncertainty bargaining, while assuming common knowledge about higher-order beliefs. We study and show that existence such improves efficiency bargaining by expanding set strategies implementable in equilibrium. introduce beliefs one player privately observes an imperfect signal other player's type. signals could...

The classic Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem says that every strategy-proof voting rule with at least three possible candidates must be dictatorial. In [McL11], McLennan showed that a similar impossibility result holds even if we consider a weaker notion of strategy-proofness where voters believe that the other voters’ preferences are i.i.d. (independent and identically distributed): If an anonymo...

aim and background: meta-cognitive therapy is based on the principle that meta-cognitive is very important for understanding the way of cognition function and the way of producing our conscious experience about ourselves and the world around us. in this research it has been tried to study the effectiveness of this kind of treatment in improving depression patients. methods and materials: this c...