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Global subjective memorability and the strength-based mirror effect
No full textBetween-list manipulations of memory strength through repetition commonly generate a mirror effect, with more hits, and fewer false alarms for strengthened items. However, this pattern is rarely seen with within-list manipulations of strength. Three experiments investigated the conditions under which a within-list mirror effect of strength (items presented once or thrice) is observed. In Experiments 1 and 2, we indirectly manipulated the overall subjective memorability of the studied lists by varying the proportion of non-words. A within-list mirror effect was observed only in Experiment 2, where a higher proportion of non-words was presented in the study list. In Experiment 3, the presentation duration for each item (0.5 s versus 3 s) was manipulated between groups with the purpose of affecting subjective memorability: A within-list mirror effect was observed only for the short-presentation durations. Thus, across three experiments, we found the within-list mirror effect only under conditions of poor overall subjective memorability. We propose that when the overall subjective memorability is low, people switch their response strategy on an item-by-item basis, and that this generates the observed mirror effect. <br/
T.J. Stiles: “The Commodore’s Patriotism: Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Path to the Founding of Vanderbilt University”
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP4 file: "Chancellor's Lecture Series - Videos - T.J. Stiles: 'The Commodore’s Patriotism: Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Path to the Founding of Vanderbilt University'." By Vanderbilt University. T.J. Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, speaks Sept. 29, 2010 as part of the Chancellor's Lecture Series. Stiles wrote the 2009 biography The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos introduces Stiles. Stiles takes questions after his lecture
Cwbr Author Interview: Custer\u27s Trials: A Life On The Frontier Of A New America
No full textInterview with T.J. Stiles, author of Custer\u27s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Interviewed by Tom Barber
Civil War Book Review (CWBR): The Civil War Book Review is pleased to speak with T.J. Stiles, winner of multiple awards for biography and author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War and The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Today we get to discuss his most recent work Custer\u27s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America. Mr. Stiles, thank you for joining us today. T.J. Stiles: Thanks very much for interviewing me...
Dynamic Accumulation in Bargaining Games
No full textIn many bargaining situations the decisions that parties take at one point in time affect their future bargaining opportunities. We consider an ultimatum bargaining game in which parties can decide not only how to share a current surplus but also how much to invest in order to generate future surpluses. We show that there is a unique Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE) in which a proposer consumes the whole surplus not invested. Moreover, when the proposer has a sufficiently high discount factor, his MPE investment level is higher than his opponent’s, for a given capital stock. Finally, we show that bargaining can lead to overinvestment.
Including a simulation programme into year one nursing practice: How effective is it in terms of student learning?
No full textTitle: Including a simulation programme into year one nursing practice. How effective is it in terms of student learning? Aims: The aim of this research is to evaluate student learning from the newly introduced simulation programme. Background: Educating undergraduate nurses in the 21st century provides some very realistic challenges. As nursing and faculty shortages collide they create what Hinshaw (2008) calls the “perfect storm” a unique moment in nursing history. This coupled with decreased government health budgets, increased student numbers and higher patient acuities has resulted in a reduction in the availability and quality of clinical placements. Simulated nursing practice is an innervative strategy designed to address these concerns (Kahdong-Edgren, 2011). A simulation programme was designed for Semester 2 undergraduate nursing students as there were no available clinical placements. Methods: Second semester nursing students each take part in a 40 hour simulation programme which consists of: a four hour clinical workshop followed by a two hour clinical duty and a two hour debrief. Students’ work in groups of three, each have an opportunity over the 4 week period to assume the role of primary nurse, observer nurse and patient. Day one each of the students (approximately 84), will be asked to self -assess and rate their knowledge, clinical skills, clinical decision making and critical thinking. They will reassess and rate using by responding to the same questions at the completion of the four week rotation. Results will be analysed on a question to question basis comparing the pre and post ratings. Results: Results at this stage are pending, but will be available July 2012. Conclusions: Pending References Hinshaw, A.S. (2008). Navigating the perfect storm: Balancing a culture with workforce challenges. Nursing Research, 57(1S), S4-S10. ns.2010.03.074 Kahdong-Edgren, S. (2011). Report on the 2nd Swiss Conference on Simulated Patients and Simulation. International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Elsevier Inc. doi 10.1016/j.ecns.2010.10.001 Quint, S., & Kahdong-Edgren, S. (2011). Quint Clinical Judgement in Simulatio
Flow patterns around longitudinal training dams
No full textWith the intention to reduce the negative effects of ongoing bed erosion, as well as to improve several other river functions such as protection against floods, provision of safe and efficient navigation and ecology, a ‘pilot project longitudinal training dams’ was initiated. The training dams have recently been implemented in the Waal between Tiel and Sind Andries. In this project, river groynes have been completely removed and replaced by dams that lie parallel to the river bank. With help of the longitudinal training dams, a two-channel river system is created in which the river is divided into a main and side channel. The dams are placed in a continuous manner with openings in between that are relatively small compared to the dam length. At the beginning and end of the dam an inlet and outlet region is situated, as shown in Fig. 1. The combination of inlet and openings allows for water and sediment to be divided between the main and the side channel. Both inlet and openings are constructed with the help of a porous rock-layer. The crest heights can be altered by adding or removing stones. This is expected to influence the amount of water and sediment entering the side channel and can therefore be used as a regulation tool. A.J.F. Hoitink, T.V. de Ruijsscher, T.J. Geertsema, B. Makaske, J. Wallinga, J.H.J. Candel, J. Poelman (Eds.) NCR days 2017, Febr. 1-3, 2017. Book of abstracts, NCR publication 41-2017.Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging EngineeringHydraulic Structures and Flood RiskEnvironmental Fluid Mechanic
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Processing speed, executive function, and age differences in remembering and knowing.
No full textA group of young (n = 52, M = 23.27 years) and old (n = 52, M = 68.62 years) adults studied two lists of semantically unrelated nouns. For one list a time of 2 s was allowed for encoding, and for the other, 5 s. A recognition test followed where participants classified their responses according to Gardiner's (1988) remember-know procedure. Age differences for remembering and knowing were minimal in the faster 2-s encoding condition. However, in the longer 5-s encoding condition, younger persons produced significantly more remember responses, and older adults a greater number of know responses. This dissociation suggests that in the longer encoding condition, younger adults utilized a greater level of elaborative rehearsal governed by executive processes, whereas older persons employed maintenance rehearsal involving short-term memory. Statistical control procedures, however, found that independent measures of processing speed accounted for age differences in remembering and knowing and that independent measures of executive control had little influence. The findings are discussed in the light of contrasting theoretical accounts of recollective experience in old age
Seismic interferometry as a tool for improved imaging of the heterogeneities in the body of a landfill
No full textAccepted Author ManuscriptGeo-engineeringApplied Geophysics and Petrophysic
On the dynamics of hydraulic lines supplying servosystems
No full textMechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineerin
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