Previous research suggests that when intentions are encoded, participants establish an attention allocation policy based on their metacognitive beliefs about how demanding it will be to fulfill the prospective memory (PM) task. We investigated whether tacit PM demands can influence judgments about the cognitive effort required for success, and, as a result, affect ongoing task interference and ...

We introduce the preventive maintenance scheduling problem with interval costs (PMSPIC), which is to schedule preventive maintenance (PM) of the components of a system over a finite and discretized time horizon, given a common set-up cost and component costs dependent on the lengths of the maintenance intervals. We present a 0-1 integer linear programming (0-1 ILP) model for the PMSPIC; the mod...

A meta-analysis of prospective memory (PM) studies revealed that in laboratory settings younger participants outperform older participants on tests of both time- and event-based PM (rs=-.39 and -.34, respectively). Event-based PM tasks that impose higher levels of controlled strategic demand are associated with significantly larger age effects than event-based PM tasks that are supported by rel...

This paper extends an integrated model of economic production quantity (EPQ) and preventive maintenance (PM) to incorporate possibilities of minimal repair and rework. Our model determines simultaneously the optimal number of inspections, the inspection interval, the EPQ, and the PM level. Numerical examples of Weibull shock models are given to show that allowing minimal repair and rework will ...

background in some autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (ra), interleukin-27 (il-27) and il-33 levels are increased. these observations suggest that il-27 and il-33 may have a role in the pathogenesis of polymyositis/dermatomyositis (pm/dm). conclusions these data indicate that il-27 might be selectively involved in the pathogenesis of dm and pm. however, il-33 does not appear to be...

Stirling A (2007) Risk, precaution and science: towards a more constructive policy debate. EMBO Rep 8: 309–315 Wiedemann PM, Schütz H (2005) The precautionary principle and risk perception: experimental studies in the EMF area. Environ Health Perspect 113: 402–405 Wiedemann PM, Thalmann AT, Grutsch MA, Schütz H (2006) The impacts of precautionary measures and the disclosure of scientific uncert...

Fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI) is due to an X-linked mutation that results from the expansion of a CGG repeat sequence located in the 5' untranslated region of the FMR1 gene (premutation, PM). About 20% of women who carry the PM have cessation of menses before age 40, a clinical condition known as premature ovarian failure (POF). This leads to a 20-fold increased ris...

We study the Fundamental Plane (FP) for a volume- and luminosity-limited sample of 560 early-type galaxies from SAMI survey. Using r-band sizes luminosities new Multi-Gaussian Expansion (MGE) photometric measurements, treating luminosity as dependent variable, FP has coefficients a=1.294$\pm$0.039, b= 0.912$\pm$0.025, zero-point c= 7.067$\pm$0.078. leverage high signal-to-noise integral field s...

We examined the age-related changes of calbindin D-28k (CB)-immunoreactive neurons and overall populations of neurons in the myenteric plexus of gerbil duodenum using whole mount preparations and immunohistochemistry. The circumference of duodenum increased age-dependently. CB-immunoreactive neurons were observed in all groups, and most of them had the Dogiel type II morphology. The fully devel...

BACKGROUND Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a common manifestation of polymyositis (PM), dermatomyositis (DM), and clinically amyopathic dermatomyositis (CADM); however, little is known about the factors influencing the prognosis for PM/DM/CADM-associated ILD. (PM/DM/CADM-ILD). The aim of the present study is to assess prognostic factors for PM/DM/CADM-ILD. METHODS The clinical features and...