Computer Simulation

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Speech shadowing while driving: on the difficulty of splitting attention between eye and ear.

We investigated the role of cross-modal links in spatial attention in modulating the efficiency of dual-task performance. The difficulty of combining speech shadowing with a simulated driving task was modulated by the spatial location from which the ...
Charles Spence, Liliana Read (Psychol Sci, 200305)
speech-shadowing-driving-difficulty-splitting-attention-eye-ear.asp

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Theoretical and experimental determination of dosimetric characteristics for brachyseed Pd-103, model Pd-1, source.

Dosimetric characteristics of the BrachySeed Pd-103, Model Pd-1 source have been determined using both theoretical and experimental methods. Dose rate constant, radial dose function, and anisotropy functions of the source have been obtained following the ...
Ali S Meigooni, Hualin Zhang, Candace Perry, Sharifeh A Dini, Rafiq A Koona (Appl Radiat Isot, 200305)
theoretical-experimental-determination-dosimetric-characteristics.asp

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Influence of consonantal context on the pronunciation of vowels: a comparison of human readers and computational models.

In two experiments, we found that college students pronunciations of vowels in nonwords are influenced both by preceding and following consonants. The predominance of rimes in previous studies of reading does not appear to arise because readers are ...
Rebecca Treiman, Brett Kessler, Suzanne Bick (Cognition, 200305)
influence-consonantal-context-pronunciation-vowels-comparison-human.asp

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What does it take to evolve behaviorally complex organisms?

What genotypic features explain the evolvability of organisms that have to accomplish many different tasks? The genotype of behaviorally complex organisms may be more likely to encode modular neural architectures because neural modules dedicated to ...
Raffaele Calabretta, Andrea Di Ferdinando, Günter P Wagner, Domenico Parisi (Biosystems, 200305)
take-evolve-behaviorally-complex-organisms.asp

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Client involvement in simulation model building: hints and insights from a case study in a London hospital.

This paper describes the collaborative process of building a simulation model in order to understand patient waiting times in an accident and emergency department. The purpose is to explore the issues that arise when involving clients, in this case ...
David C Lane, Camilla Monefeldt, Elke Husemann (Health Care Manag Sci, 200305)
client-involvement-simulation-model-building-hints-insights-case.asp

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Can tonic accommodation predict surgical performance?

BACKGROUND: Pilots undergo many visual tests for both selection and assessment, and we know that there are many similarities between pilots and surgeons. Hence, it would not be unreasonable to bring similar visual tests into surgery. Tonic accommodation ...
J Shah, I Paul, D Buckley, H Davis, J P Frisby, A Darzi (Surg Endosc, 200305)
tonic-accommodation-predict-surgical-performance.asp

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The subjective sense of presence, emotion recognition, and experienced emotions in auditory virtual environments.

Realistic aural rendering of events in mediated environments is becoming an increasingly important aspect in many multi-modal applications. In a between-group experiment with 45 participants, it was studied how ratings of presence (a sense of being in ...
Daniel Västfjäll (Cyberpsychol Behav, 200304)
subjective-sense-presence-emotion-recognition-experienced-emotions.asp

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Design techniques for stated preference methods in health economics.

This paper discusses different design techniques for stated preference surveys in health economic applications. In particular, we focus on different design techniques, i.e. how to combine the attribute levels into alternatives and choice sets, for choice ...
Fredrik Carlsson, Peter Martinsson (Health Econ, 200304)
design-techniques-stated-preference-methods-health-economics.asp

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Self-assessment in simulation-based surgical skills training.

BACKGROUND: Simulation-based training provides minimal feedback and relies heavily on self-assessment. Research has shown medical trainees are poor self-assessors. The purpose of this study was to examine trainees ability to self-assess technical skills ...
Jeannie MacDonald, Reed G Williams, David A Rogers (Am J Surg, 200304)
self-assessment-simulation-based-surgical-skills-training.asp

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Dynamic interactions of eye and head movements when reading with single-vision and progressive lenses in a simulated computer-based environment.

PURPOSE: To assess dynamic interactions of eye and head movements during return-sweep saccades (RSS) when reading with single-vision (SVL) versus progressive-addition (PAL) lenses in a simulated computer-based business environment. METHODS: Horizontal ...
Ying Han, Kenneth J Ciuffreda, Arkady Selenow, Steven R Ali (Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 200304)
dynamic-interactions-eye-head-movements-reading-single-vision.asp