The attentional demands of encoding and retrieval in younger and older adults: I. Evidence from divided attention costs.

Four studies examined the effects of divided attention in younger and older adults. Attention was divided at encoding or retrieval in free recall (Experiment 1), cued recall (Experiments 2 and 3), and recognition (Experiment 4). Dividing attention at encoding disrupted memory performance equally for the two age groups; by contrast, for both age groups, dividing attention at retrieval had little or no effect on memory performance. Secondary task reaction times (RTs) were slowed to a greater extent for the older adults than for the younger adults, especially at retrieval. Age-related differences in RTs costs at retrieval were largest in free recall, smaller in cued recall, and smallest in recognition. These results provide evidence for an age-related increase in the attentional demands of encoding and retrieval. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Thermophilic fungi: III. The lipids ofHumicola grisea var.thermoidea

The lipids of the thermophilic fungusHumicola grisea var.thermoidea were qualitatively and quantitatively determined. The polar lipids consisted of 38.4–42.3% of the total lipids. The relative per cent phospholipids based upon the total phospholipids were as follows: phosphatidyl choline, 32.3–33.7%; phosphatidic acid, 24.5–31.7%; phosphatidyl ethanolamine, 15.8–20.9%; phosphatidyl inositol, 12.5–13.0%; phosphatidyl serine, 2.3–5.4%; and diphosphatidyl glycerol, 3.9–4.0%. The relatively high concentration of phosphatidic acid may be characteristic of fungi grown at elevated temperatures. Several sterol glycosides (3.1–6.0%) were present in the polar lipids. The neutral lipids consist of triglycerides, 28.6–36.0%; free fatty acids, 5.3–13.5%; sterols, 11.4–13.9%; sterol esters, 1.8–3.0%; and diglycerides, 2.2–3.4%. The sterols and derivatives comprise an unusually large fraction of the total lipids (16.3–22.9%) suggesting a role in thermostability.     

80 million tiny images: a large data set for nonparametric object and scene recognition

With the advent of the Internet, billions of images are now freely available online and constitute a dense sampling of the visual world. Using a variety of non-parametric methods, we explore this world with the aid of a large dataset of 79,302,017 images collected from the Internet. Motivated by psychophysical results showing the remarkable tolerance of the human visual system to degradations in image resolution, the images in the dataset are stored as 32 x 32 color images. Each image is loosely labeled with one of the 75,062 non-abstract nouns in English, as listed in the Wordnet lexical database. Hence the image database gives a comprehensive coverage of all object categories and scenes. The semantic information from Wordnet can be used in conjunction with nearest-neighbor methods to perform object classification over a range of semantic levels minimizing the effects of labeling noise. For certain classes that are particularly prevalent in the dataset, such as people, we are able to demonstrate a recognition performance comparable to class-specific Viola-Jones style detectors.     

NMR investigation of the magnetic susceptibility anisotropy in3He-A

We have investigated transverse continuous wave NMR in a geometry where the modes are influenced by susceptibility anisotropy. The helium sample is separated by mylar foils into layers 12 m thick perpendicular to the external dc magnetic field. In this geometryl is constrained to be parallel to the field andd switches from parallel to perpendicular to the field over a small range of field around the dipole unlocking field. The mode frequencies below this critical field yield a value for the susceptibility anisotropy. Above the critical field the expected negative frequency shift is observed, as well as a positive frequency shift due to bulk material and an unexpected signal close to the Larmor frequency.     

命名和征服(英文)

This paper introduces a technique that has been used successfully in University College Dublin,Ireland and Fudan University in Shanghai,China,to teach the formal aspects of computer programming to undergraduate students.The technique,name and conquer,relies on the use of modelling small mathematical domains and allowing the results of these models to form the basis for the programming task.     

Divided Attention in Younger and Older Adults: Effects of Strategy and Relatedness on Memory Performance and Secondary Task Costs.

Divided attention at encoding leads to a significant decline in memory performance, whereas divided attention during retrieval has relatively little effect; nevertheless, retrieval carries significant secondary task costs, especially for older adults. The authors further investigated the effects of divided attention in younger and older adults by using a cued-recall task and by measuring retrieval accuracy, retrieval latency, and the temporal distribution of attentional costs at encoding and retrieval. An age-related memory deficit was reduced by pair relatedness, whereas strategy instructions benefited both age groups equally. Attentional costs were greater for retrieval than for encoding, especially for older adults. These findings are interpreted in light of notions of an age-related associative deficit (M. Naveh-Benjamin, 2000) and age-related differences in the use of self-initiated activities and environmental support (F. I. M. Craik, 1983, 1986). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Lung Cancer Assistant: a hybrid clinical decision support application for lung cancer care

Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings are becoming the model of care for cancer patients worldwide. While MDTs have improved the quality of cancer care, the meetings impose substantial time pressure on the members, who generally attend several such MDTs. We describe Lung Cancer Assistant (LCA), a clinical decision support (CDS) prototype designed to assist the experts in the treatment selection decisions in the lung cancer MDTs. A novel feature of LCA is its ability to provide rule-based and probabilistic decision support within a single platform. The guideline-based CDS is based on clinical guideline rules, while the probabilistic CDS is based on a Bayesian network trained on the English Lung Cancer Audit Database (LUCADA). We assess rule-based and probabilistic recommendations based on their concordances with the treatments recorded in LUCADA. Our results reveal that the guideline rule-based recommendations perform well in simulating the recorded treatments with exact and partial concordance rates of 0.57 and 0.79, respectively. On the other hand, the exact and partial concordance rates achieved with probabilistic results are relatively poorer with 0.27 and 0.76. However, probabilistic decision support fulfils a complementary role in providing accurate survival estimations. Compared to recorded treatments, both CDS approaches promote higher resection rates and multimodality treatments.     

Evaluation of two unusual high analysis compounds as fertilizers,including possible slow release features

The fertilizer potential of two unusual N-P compounds with cage structures was evaluated in pot experiments where plants were repetitively cut over 400 days. One of the compounds, hexamethyl-hexaaza-tetraphosphaadamantane (APA), having 41.6% P and 28.2% N, showed high fertilizer capability. After more than 400 days, dry matter yield of Rhodes grass given APA was 83–102% of that given conventional N-P sources, and yield of Townsville stylo 60–70%. Curves for N and P uptakes over time were of sigmoidal form, with the steepest parts between days 40 and 120, suggesting a slow-release feature. However growth was depressed up to day 40, presumably by some toxic factor associated with the decomposition of the APA. This toxicity was avoided if some conventional fertilizer was applied with the APA.The other compound, the tetrasulphide of APA (APAS) had only limited fertilizer potential. Plants did absorb P and S at least from this compound, but Townsville stylo yield was only 32–38% of that with conventional fertilizers, and Rhodes grass yield not much greater than from control pots. The possible slow-release feature, and the toxic effect, did not occur with APAS.     

Numerical Modeling of Multimaterial Thermoelectric Devices Under Static and Cyclic Thermal Loading

Selection of materials for thermoelectric devices is generally based on a figure of merit that is a function of the Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, and thermal conductivity. While this figure of merit is a useful metric for comparing materials, the relative importance of the constituent properties depends on the particular application and conditions. In addition, multiple materials can be used together to improve the performance or extend the operating range, and determining the performance of such multimaterial combinations requires analysis beyond simply averaging the properties of the constituent materials. In this paper, finite-element numerical simulations under static and cyclic thermal loadings are used to investigate how device performance can be improved by judicious location of the different materials within the device. The results show that the performance of a device with two different materials can be better than that of either of the individual materials. The greatest improvement in performance occurs with cyclic heating, where the overall performance is strongly influenced by the behavior under transient conditions during heating and cooling.