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Evaluation of techniques for vigilance measurements
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2001.
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Kiš’s vigilance: ethics as aesthetics in the prose of Danilo Kiš
This thesis offers a reading of the late Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš by looking at how a particular tradition of European aesthetics and ethical philosophy (namely Levinas and Blanchot) can be compared to Danilo Kiš’s poetics. Beyond critically evaluating Kiš, I am to make connections between …
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VECTOR QUANTIZATION USING ODE BASED NEURAL NETWORK WITH VARYING VIGILANCE PARAMETER
Vector Quantization importance has been increasing and it is becoming a vital element in the process of classification and clustering of different types of information to help in the development of machines learning and decisions making, however the different techniques that implements Vector …
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Examining the Effects of transcranial Electrical Stimulation on Vigilance and Attention
… arousal spectrum, constructs like attention and vigilance aid in filtering and regulating ongoing exogenous sensory and endogenous neural activity, to maintain appropriate constant states of alertness.</p> <p>Differing vigilant and attentional states can be assessed and characterized behaviorally …
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A Learning Theory Paradigm for Perceptual Vigilance and Perceptual Defense Phenomena
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T23:50:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0009124.pdf: 3325466 bytes, checksum: 06070e8a05a212ae0807c94a1b431d42 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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From Surveillance to Vigilance: A Relational Approach to College, Career, Military Readiness
… systemic barriers. The study calls for policy vigilance that interrogates the language and ideologies producing current conditions and for leadership practices that center student voice and contextualized supports to create truly meaningful postsecondary pathways.
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Vigilance behavior and land use by sandhill cranes (<i>grus canadensis</i>)
<p>I investigated how vigilance in sandhill crane time budgets changed with behavioral, climatic, and anthropogenic factors. I measured two different postures that could be interpreted as vigilance. Cranes significantly altered the time spent in the alert investigative posture with differences in …
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Vigilance and skin conductance characteristics in a population of reading disabled children
… characteristics as arousal and performance on a vigilance task would differ not only from a control group, but also within the RD sample. It was hypothesized that HBD symptoms would be associated with lowered arousal and poorer vigilance performance whereas children experiencing reading …
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Construct Deficiency in Avoidance Motivation: Development and Validation of a Scale Measuring Vigilance
… an effective avoidance motivational trait, vigilance, as an antecedent to effective regulatory behaviors that are avoidant in nature and/or strategy. Two studies were conducted: First, development and psychometric evaluation of a scale measuring vigilance within the existing motivational …
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The Performance Effects of a Low Dose of Caffeine on a Cognitive Vigilance Task
… and high dose of caffeine on a Bakan cognitive vigilance task. 69 student volunteers participated in the experiment. Participants were randomly distributed among caffeine dosage levels of 0, 20, and 200 mg. The correct response score, which was chosen as the dependent variable, was collected by …
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The Effects of Motivation Level and Task Difficulty on Performance on a Vigilance Task
<p>Although many variables affecting vigilance behavior have been identified, there has not been substantial agreement on the importance of these variables as contributors either to performance decrements often found in laboratory research or to performance levels in industrial inspection tasks. …
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