This study aimed to investigate how different strategies of task constraint manipulation impact physical and tactical demands in small-sided and conditioned games (SSCG). Ten recreational U-17 soccer players participated in this study (16.89 ±...
The human pupil changes size in response to processing demands or cognitive (work)load and emotional processing. Therefore, it is important to test if automatic tracking of cognitive load by pupil-size measurement is possible under conditions of vary...
Ageing entails different functional brain changes. Education, reading experience, and leisure activities, among others, might contribute to the maintenance of cognitive performance among older adults and are conceptualised as proxies for cognitive re...
Driving safety hinges on the dynamic interplay between task demand and driving capability, yet these concepts lack a unified, quantifiable formulation. In this work, we present a framework based on a multimodal large language model that transforms he...
23 November 2022
The evidence for the existence of perceived task demand is paradoxical. The purpose of the present study is to explore whether perceived task demand is a challenge or a hindrance stressor. To achieve this research purpose, based on conservation of re...
Taxi demand can be divided into pick-up demand and drop-off demand, which are firmly related to human’s travel habits. Accurately predicting taxi demand is of great significance to passengers, drivers, ride-hailing platforms and urban managers....
A comprehensive, accurate, and timely expression of earth observation (EO) tasks is the primary prerequisite for the response to and the emergency monitoring of disasters, especially floods. However, the existing information model does not fully sati...
Ultra-short-term HRV features assess minor autonomous nervous system variations such as variations resulting from cognitive stress peaks during demanding tasks. Several studies compare ultra-short-term and short-term HRV measurements to investigate t...
Multi-agent systems (MASs), with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as a representative embodiment, have become increasingly vital in time-sensitive disaster response scenarios, where multiple agents must collaborate to execute “observe-and-interv...
Target-directed elbow movements are essential in daily life; however, how different task demands affect motor control is seldom reported. In this study, the relationship between task demands and the complexity of kinematics and electromyographic (EMG...
In this paper, we propose a deterministic shift design model with task-based demand and give the corresponding stochastic version with a probability constraint such that the shift plan designed is staffed with the workforce with a certain probability...
New products have little sales history, which makes short-horizon demand forecasting difficult. This study tests whether a product–store–time graph can provide pre-origin relational context and whether task-conditioned meta-learning can a...
This study examined the complex relationships among task complexity, task-specific emotions, and learners’ L2 writing performance. Sixty-one Chinese EFL learners were divided into two groups and completed two writing tasks in a counterbalanced...
Although organizational behavior (OB) research on burnout has traditionally emphasized workload and resource imbalance, such explanations remain insufficient for understanding burnout in highly routinized industrial hierarchies, where work is standar...
Faces showing expressions of happiness or anger were presented together with sentences that described happiness-inducing or anger-inducing situations. Two main variables were manipulated: (i) congruency between contexts and expressions (congruent/inc...
The mental speed approach to individual differences in mental ability (MA) is based on the assumption of higher speed of information processing in individuals with higher than those with lower MA. Empirical support of this assumption has been inconsi...
The present study examined how different combinations of promotion and prevention focus are associated with the experience of flow during fluid reasoning tasks of different difficulty, and whether flow is in turn associated with fluid intelligence as...
While previous scholarly work has focused on addressing the relationship between task variation and employee motivation, the functional relations between problem-solving demands at work and employee engagement remain underexplored. This systematic re...
This study evaluates the effect of dual tasks on balance during manipulation of visual information, the base of support, and cognitive tasks in 7–12-year-old children and adults. An equal number of girls (210) and boys (210) were selected from...
For nine popular geometrical visual-illusion figures, a mathematical analysis is provided along with a characterization of the figures’ psychological effectiveness. Supported by graphical illustrations, for the L and the T, it is shown how math...
5 September 2026
Background: Small-sided games (SSGs) are widely used in soccer training to develop physical, physiological, and technical–tactical capacities under game-representative conditions. Although task constraints have been investigated individually, evidenc...
Cognitive tasks significantly influence automated acts, such as walking. This study included 41 healthy individuals, who were over 65 years of age. We examined dual-task effects on the spatiotemporal and kinematic parameters of gait in older adults d...
Dynamic task allocation is a necessity in a group of robots. Each member should decide its own task such that it is most commensurate with its current state in the overall system. In this work, the response threshold model is applied to a dynamic for...
Background: Early childhood movement programs require developmentally appropriate progression of motor tasks, but practical information on how young children acquire unfamiliar tasks with different structural and coordinative demands remains limited....
Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is increasingly used for investigating cognitive processes. To provide converging evidence for the validity of fNIRS recordings in cognitive neuroscience, we investigated functional activation in the fron...
16 October 2026
It is unclear what consumers infer from the social-oriented (SCS) and task-oriented (TCS) communication styles of conversational AI in e-commerce, or why these associations vary across tasks. Drawing on mind perception research, we examine affective...
The scheduling of tasks in a production line is a complex problem that needs to take into account several constraints, such as product deadlines and machine limitations. With innovative focus, the main constraint that will be addressed in this paper,...
14 August 2019
The present study emphasizes the indirect influences of coworker helping behavior on emotional exhaustion through psychological availability and the moderating role of perceived task demands on a daily basis. Using a two-wave experience sampling meth...
Adaptive behavior in the environment requires a high level of cognitive control to bias limited processing resources to behaviorally significant stimuli. Such control has been associated with a set of brain regions located in the fronto-parietal cort...
22 December 2022
Recent studies have explored the dark side of helping behavior from an actor-centric perspective. Consistent with this stream of research, this study linked helping behavior to career satisfaction. In this study, we adopted perceived task demands and...
6 March 2025
The Job Content Questionnaire JCQ 2.0 (JCQ 2.0) thoroughly revises the well-known JCQ 1, based on an expanded Demand/Control theory-consistent platform with new scales, the Associationalist Demand Control (ADC) theory. This study tests the JCQ 2.0 in...
Multiple representation theories propose that social experience plays an important role in grounding abstract concepts. However, it is less clear how social experience influences the processing of abstract concepts, especially whether this influence...
The prediction of taxi demand service has become a recently attractive area of research along with large-scale and potential applications in the intelligent transportation system. The demand process is divided into two main parts: Picking-up and drop...
Task batteries mimicking user tasks are of high heuristic value. Supposedly, they measure individual human aptitude regarding the task in question. However, less is often known about the underlying mechanisms or functions that account for task perfor...
Emotional and workload-related states unfold dynamically during immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences, yet reliable physiological modeling in such environments remains challenging. We investigated whether multi-channel facial electromyography (f...
Energy-intensive enterprises (EIEs), as vital demand-side flexibility resources, can significantly enhance the power system’s ability to regulate demand by participating in demand response (DR). This helps alleviate supply pressures during tigh...
Workload (WL) measurement is a crucial foundation for human–machine collaboration, particularly in high-stress multitasking environments such as manned vehicle operations during emergencies, where operators often experience High Workload (HWL)...
The increasing penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) and rooftop photovoltaics (PV) is intensifying the variability and uncertainty of residential net demand, thereby challenging real-time operation in smart grids and microgrids. The purpose of this...
The driving scenario and information load jointly influence the cognitive efficiency of augmented reality head-up display (AR-HUD) interfaces. However, the moderating role of drivers’ working memory capacity (WMC) remains unclear. To investigate this...
Demand response (DR) can provide extra scheduling flexibility for power systems. Different from industrial and residential loads, the production process of manufacturing loads includes multiple production links, and complex material flow and energy f...
Demand response (DR) is a key technique in smart grid (SG) technologies for reducing energy costs and maintaining the stability of electrical grids. Since manufacturing is one of the major consumers of electrical energy, implementing DR in factory en...
The polysilicon production process has significant potential to be made adjustable, and actively changing its production schedule to participate in grid dispatch can effectively alleviate the pressure on the power supply and balance demand while prom...
In a previous study in young adults, we showed that hemodynamic changes as measured by functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) were sensitive for identifying visuospatial working memory (WM)-related functional brain activation in the prefrontal...
Water quality prediction is a fundamental and necessary task for the prevention and management of water environment pollution. Due to the fluidity of water, different sections of the same river have similar trends in their water quality. The present...
1 July 2022
The need to retain individuals longer in the workforce is acknowledged in many high-income countries. The present study therefore aimed to examine the importance of physically demanding work tasks (PDWT) and physically hazardous work environment (PHW...
The aim of the current study was to examine how reward-associated emotional facial distractors could capture attentional resources in a demanding visual task using event-related potentials (ERPs). In the learning phase, a high- or low-reward probabil...
Circadian rhythms, sleep homeostasis, and chronotype interact to modulate cognitive processes such as attention and executive functions, leading to fluctuations in performance throughout the day and significant impairments under conditions of misalig...
Taxis and Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) are important components of the urban transportation system. An accurate short-term forecast of passenger demand can help operators better allocate taxi or TNC services to achieve supply–demand...
Pervasive computing applications deal with the intelligence surrounding users that can facilitate their activities. This intelligence is provided in the form of software components incorporated in embedded systems or devices in close distance with en...
This study analyses the physical performance variables involved in different training tasks aimed at replicating the worst-case scenarios (WCSs) observed during official matches in professional football, with a focus on playing positions and occurren...
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