BACKGROUND Due to shortcomings in the design, no source-specific exposure-effect relations are as yet available describing the effects of noise on children's cognitive performance. This paper reports on a study investigating the effects of aircraft and road traffic noise exposure on the cognitive performance of primary schoolchildren in both the home and the school setting. METHODS Participan...

tistical evaluation of the items in the Stanford Binet and, incidentally, of certain performance tests that might indicate the presence of mechanical ability. The theory that general intelligence and mechanical ability are distinct traits is consistently confirmed by the low correlations found between tests of intelligence and mechanical ability. Almost all of these studies are based on the tot...

The pseudospectral method is a highly accurate numerical scheme suitable for turbulence simulations. We have developed an open-source code, \textsc{\textsf{Calliope}}, which adopts the P3DFFT library \citep{Pekurovsky2012} to perform fast Fourier transform with two-dimensional (pencil) decomposition of grids. \textsc{\textsf{Calliope}} can solve incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), isothe...

In clinical neuropsychology a huge number of neuropsychological tests have been developed, and the corpus of these instruments is always increasing. Because of this, the question has been raised as to which are the most usefull instruments that provide the best neuropsychological profiles of the subjects. In the actual literature, there are polemics about the advantages and disadvantages of com...

Although selection tests are typically validated against only a single criterion, calls in the personnel selection literature urge the examination of selection devices across multiple criteria. This study examined biodata criterion-related validity across multiple performance criteria in a sample of 6,036 automated systems controller applicants. The performance measures examined included a pape...

The present study focuses on the implementation of a self assessment procedure in a Physics class, extended during a seven weeks period in a European secondary level school. The researchers used three modes of assessment based on paper and pencil, computer-web and mobile devices respectively. The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of each mode of assessment on students’ motivation an...

Technology has transformed the science and practice of medicine. In this special mini-forum, data using digital neuropsychological technology are reported. All these papers demonstrate how coupling with standard paper pencil tests able to extract behavior not otherwise obtainable. As assessment methods mature, early identification persons emergent neurodegenerative other neurological illness ma...