These studies examine the relationship between the analytic basis underlying the hierarchies produced by the Model of Hierarchical Complexity and the probabilistic Rasch scales that places both participants and problems along a single hierarchically ordered dimension. A Rasch analysis was performed on data from the balance-beam task series. This yielded scaled stage of performance for each of t...

Human concepts differ in their dimensionality. Some, like green-things, require representing one dimension while abstracting over many others. Others, like bird, have higher dimensionality due to numerous category-relevant properties (feathers, two-legs). Converging evidence points to the importance of verbal labels for forming low-dimensional categories. We examined the role of verbal labels i...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of task sequencing, along +/- reasoning demands dimension, on writing task performance in terms of accuracy.  The study was motivated by Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis (CH) as well as previous studies investigating the relationships between task complexity and second language production. The participants of the study were 90 intermediate students at t...

EL-HAJ MAHMOUD, ALI AHMAD. Hard-Real-Time Multithreading: A Combined Microarchitectural and Scheduling Approach. (Under the direction of Dr. Eric Rotenberg). Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) enables fine-grain resource sharing of a single superscalar processor among multiple tasks, improving cost-performance. However, SMT cannot be safely exploited in hard-real-time systems. These systems requ...

A two-dimensional Simon-type task was devised to investigate the impact of task requirements and explicit instructions on spatial action coding. Subjects performed actions that were defined on two spatial dimensions: horizontal (left±right) or vertical (top±bottom). The relevant stimulus feature was nonspatial but the stimuli varied on the horizontal and the vertical dimension, so that horizont...

Reliability and validity are crucial issues in research. Reliability is concerned with lowered quality of data due to random errors in measurement. Validity is concerned with whether variables measure what they purport to measure or are biased by other systemic factors, excluding random errors. Strength of correlation is limited by reliability. Given the problems in measuring reliability and va...