OBJECTIVE To examine the factor structure of the 144-item Chinese version of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and its association with age and gender in a large non-clinical population. METHOD We recruited 1966 non-clinical participants in China who completed the TCI Chinese version. They were randomly divided into two independent samples. One sample (n=983) was used for explorat...

Contemporary models of audiovisual speech perception attempt to explain accuracy data based on curve fitting and optimization techniques (see Braida, 1991; Massaro, 1987). Research on audiovisual speech perception lacks a formal mathematical foundation because current models do not make predictions about reaction time or adequately describe how the audio and visual channels are processed in the...

A multimodal problem generator was used to test three versions of genetic algorithm and the binary particle swarm algorithm in a factorial time-series experiment. Specific strengths and weaknesses of the various algorithms were identified.

Information in a statistical experiment is often measured through the determinant of its information matrix. Under first order normal linear models, the determinant of the information matrix of a two-level factorial experiment neither depends on where the experiment is centered, nor on how it is oriented, and balanced allocations are more informative than unbalanced ones with the same number of...

In a number of practical scenarios, such as video conferencing and visual human/computer interaction, objects that belong to a well defined class are segmented, normalized, and encoded, after which they are stored and/or transmitted, and subsequently reconstructed. The Karhunen-Loève Transform (KLT) optimally concentrates the signal power in a relatively small number of uncorrelated coefficient...

Optimised mass transport is crucial for high current density operations in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Water Electrolysers (PEMWEs). This study investigates the effect and interactions of parameters on performance a PEMWE using 2 3 full-factorial Design-of-Experiments (DoE) approach with replication. The effects anode flow-field design, porous layer (PTL) water flow rate cell were studied. At ...