Unlocking engagement: exploring the drivers of elderly participation in digital backfeeding through community education by Sijie Sun

“…Using an integrated framework of the UTAUT, TTF, and TAM models, the research surveyed 482 elderly participants in community centers in Taiyuan, China, focusing on variables such as task and technology characteristics, social influence, facilitating conditions, perceived usefulness, ease of use, and technology anxiety. …”
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Evaluation of the Potential for Development of the Economic Cooperation in Euro-region Ruse-Giurgiu after the end of the Programming Period 2007-2013 by Viktoriya IVANOVA, Milena KIROVA

“…Important part from the process of evaluation of the impact from the program for Cross-border cooperation Romania – Bulgaria 2007-2013 on the economic development of the territorial units from the lowest level of influence – municipalities and cross-border territorial unions, created on their basis – is the task for evaluation of the reached level and potential for development of economic cooperation, right after the end of the programming period. …”
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No impact of story context and avatar power on performance in a stop-signal game by Linus Held, Johannes Pannermayr, Alina Kaufmann, Marouscha Scheffer, Paola Flores, Martin Dechant, Maximilian A. Friehs

“…Alternatively, motivational variables as immersion and avatar identification might be detrimental to response inhibition, by shifting attention away from relevant task elements. Contrary to expectations, approach and avoidance narratives did not influence outcome variables or participant experience, while different avatars led to altered avatar identification, particularly favouring strong avatars. …”
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Can humanoid robots be used as a cognitive offloading tool? by Shari Cavicchi, Abdulaziz Abubshait, Giulia Siri, Magda Mustile, Francesca Ciardo

“…We will examine studies assessing the influence of humanoid robots on cognitive tasks requiring the resolution of cognitive conflict to determine whether their presence facilitates or hinders cognitive performance. …”
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Implicit intervention approach for empathy: exploring the combined effects of empathic concern and visual perspective-taking by Taesun Kim, HeungSik Yoon, Sang Hee Kim

“…For this purpose, we devised two implicit intervention tasks: the gamified implicit compassion promotion task (gam-iCPT) to target empathic concern, and the other-oriented visual perspective-taking task (OVPT) to target visual perspective taking. …”
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Investigation of the Effectiveness of Programs Optimization Methods for Parallel Computing Systems with GPU by A. Yu. Bezruchenko, V. A. Egunov

“…As an example of such a task, the implementation of the singular value decomposition by the Jacobi method is used. …”
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Effect of virtual interactions through avatar agents on the joint Simon effect. by Yuki Harada, Yoshiko Arima, Mahiro Okada

“…The joint Simon effect refers to inhibitory responses to spatially competing stimuli during a complementary task. This effect has been considered to be influenced by the social factors of a partner: sharing stimulus-action representation. …”
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Contrastive Learning Pre-Training and Quantum Theory for Cross-Lingual Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis by Xun Li, Kun Zhang

“…Extensive experiments reveal that the novel CLQT framework both achieves strong results and has a beneficial overall influence on the cross-lingual ABSA task.…”
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Analyzing Cognitive Ergonomics and Key Determinants of Mental Workload in PDPT Operators at Universities by Hakim Hakim, Rezki Amelia Aminuddin A.P.

“…The study commenced by quantitatively measuring the mental workload of Higher Education Operators (PDPT) through the NASA Task Load Index (NASA TLX). Results indicated an even distribution of mental workload between moderate and heavy levels, each comprising 50%. …”
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Age-related variations in trunk muscle activation and kinematics during lifting in chronic low back pain: a cross-sectional study by Tianwei Zhang, Ali Firouzabadi, Daishui Yang, Sihai Liu, Lukas Mödl, Hendrik Schmidt

“…Abstract Chronic low back pain (cLBP) is a leading cause of disability worldwide, however, the influence of age on electromyography (EMG) during lifting tasks is not well understood. …”
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Cognitive Bias in Ambiguity Judgements: Using Computational Models to Dissect the Effects of Mild Mood Manipulation in Humans. by Kiyohito Iigaya, Aurelie Jolivald, Wittawat Jitkrittum, Iain D Gilchrist, Peter Dayan, Elizabeth Paul, Michael Mendl

“…These apparently contradictory findings may be explained by the influence of affect on different processes underlying decision-making, and the task presented here offers opportunities for further dissecting such processes.…”
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Multi-AGV multitask collaborative scheduling based on an improved ant colony algorithm by Yazhen Zhu, Qing Song, Meng Li

“…The original distance influence factor is changed to a time influence factor, which ensures that all tasks still have the minimum running time when calculating a collision-free path. …”
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The role of cognitive load in automatic integration of emotional information from face and body by Anne-Sophie Puffet, Simon Rigoulot

“…Twenty-eight participants completed an emotion recognition task with congruent or incongruent facial and bodily expressions while performing a memory task under low or high cognitive load. …”
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PROJECT COST MANAGEMENT AT THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STAGE by M. A. Fedotova, A. S. Maltsev, T. V. Tazihina

“…Nonetheless, it’s failed to address the issue to the capitalized costs informational block-schedule and methodical approach, allowing to module the loans and the financial leasing accounting parameters, with the capitalized costs being assumed on the design and the construction stage of the science-intensive projects (aircraft manufacturing, nuclear power engineering).Also on the design and the construction stage it weren’t worked out the methodical recommendations, allowing to be assessed the influence of the capitalized costs and incurring losses by the tax expense from continuing operation calculation from the point of view of accounting standards and tax legislation on net present value and financial stability of project.In this way the task to work out the methodical approaches and recommendations, allowing to model the loans and the financial leasing accounting parameters, and to carry out the assessment of the capitalized costs influence on the net present value and  the financial stability of the project are current importance task. …”
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The Role of Social Novelty in Risk Seeking and Exploratory Behavior: Implications for Addictions. by Simon Mitchell, Jennifer Gao, Mark Hallett, Valerie Voon

“…Novelty has also been shown to influence choice in the context of uncertainty and reward processing. …”
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The impact of visual fidelity on screen-based virtual reality food choices: A randomized pilot study. by Bianca Curi Braga, Pejman Sajjadi, Mahda Bagher, Alexander Klippel, Jessica Menold, Travis Masterson

“…<h4>Objective</h4>To understand the impact of fidelity and perceived realism on virtual reality food choices, and task motivation, engagement, and interest.<h4>Design</h4>Randomized controlled trial.…”
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Withstand control: standing posture differentially affects space-based and feature-based cognitive control through enhanced physiological arousal by Nuno Busch, Artyom Zinchenko, Martin Halle, Thomas Geyer

“…Additionally, we expanded upon previous research by examining posture’s influence on previously unexplored space-based cognitive control using the Navon task. …”
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Navigating by Design: Effects of Individual Differences and Navigation Modality on Spatial Memory Acquisition by Xianyun Liu, Yanan Zhang, Baihu Sun

“…Participants followed navigation cues and simulated driving behavior to the end point twice during the learning phase, then completed the route retracing task, recognizing scenes task and recognizing the order task. …”
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Elusive Gains of Cognitive Training: Limited Effects on Neural Activity Across Sessions by Luka Juras, Andrea Vranic, Ivana Hromatko

“…Results: Results revealed significant overall improvements in the trained task (n-back) performance, without an effect on the untrained task (OSPAN). qEEG analyses showed increased change in posterior (and a less robust in frontal) alpha power, particularly during mid-training, suggesting an improved neural efficiency in regions associated with attentional allocation and task engagement. …”
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Mental Overload Assessment Method Considering the Effects of Performance Shaping Factors by Xin Lu, Jianbin Guo, Shengkui Zeng, Haiyang Che

“…In the VACP model, mental overload can be identified when the sum of the task demand values of every unit task is greater than the given threshold. …”
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