We examined the effect of interruption on reading to determine if discourse processing is susceptible to similarity-based interference. Participants read pairs of passages, either one before the other (in the continuous condition) or with the sentences of the two passages interleaved (in the interruption condition). In addition, the similarity of the types of passages (narrative or expository) ...

4 In the context of this discussion, a subtle distinction is made between structured treatment interruption (STI) and structured intermittent treatment (SIT). STI has generally referred to 1 or more periods of interruption of potent antiretroviral therapy after a period of full viral suppression, with the principal goal being stimulation of HIV-1-specific immune responses that might subsequentl...

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Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Literature Review Mere presence of the cell phone and trust and relationship satisfaction Cell phones and relationships Attention, cognition, interruption, interaction Distracted driving and other attentional studies Active distraction and cognition Mere presence and cognition Rejection sensitivity Reliable avail...

A LOCALIZED NARROWING of the IAJL aorta at or distal to the ductus arteriosus (coaretation of the adult type) is one of the most comnlon congenital nmalformations of the great vessels. A narrowing of the aorta proximal to a patent ductus arteriosus (coaretation of the infantile type) is less commoni, while complete interruption of the aorta proximal to the ductus is quite rare, and interruption...

This study investigated the effects of two parameters (i.e., interruption rate, and duty cycle of interruption) on the perception of periodically interrupted Mandarin speech. Normal-hearing listeners were instructed to identify consonant/vowel/tone/word from isolated Mandarin words and recognize Mandarin sentences when they were temporally interrupted by square wave. Results showed that consist...

We investigated effects of task interruption on procedural performance, focusing on the effect of interruption length on the rates of different categories of error at the point of task resumption. Interruption length affected errors involving loss of place in the procedure (sequence errors) but not errors involving incorrect execution of a correct step (nonsequence errors), implicating memory f...

Mitigating the effects of interruptions is important for tackling the increasing number of possible disruptions at home, at work, and online. Previous work has shown that the benefits of practice can decrease the amount of time it takes to resume a task after an interruption. This paper demonstrates that the same benefit can be extended to error rates at the post-completion step showing that a ...

To begin to answer the question of whether ventilations are needed during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), Part I of this newsletter published in September showed that ventilations during cardiac arrests are not performed according to the American Heart Association (AHA) Guidelines. The high rates of ventilation increase intrathoracic pressure, decrease cardiac output and coronary perfusion...

Traffic queue formed when a stochastic vehicle stream is interrupted by a single duration of blockage, or of red signal, is analysed. It is assumed that the delayed vehicles depart with constant intervals when the interruption is terminated. The probability distribution of the number of delayed vehicles, the moments of that distribution and the expected total delay are obtained using Wa1d's ide...