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...
Focal task-specific dystonia (FTSD) is associated with abnormalities across primary motor cortex (M1), basal ganglia, cerebellum, primary somatosensory cortex (S1), and spinal circuits, but their causal ordering is unresolved. Starting from the compa...
Semantic communication has attracted considerable interest due to its potential to support emerging human-centric services, such as holographic communications, extended reality (XR), and human-machine interactions. Different from traditional communic...
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A soldier’s occupational physical task requirements are diverse and varied. However, the type of physical training that most effectively improves soldiers’ occupational task requirements has not been studied previously. The purpose of thi...
Recent second language (L2) writing research informed by task-based theories of second language acquisition has enthusiastically adopted task complexity frameworks to describe the specific cognitive demands of a given writing task and the effect of t...
This paper explores the integration of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Content-Based Instruction (CBI) within undergraduate accounting education in a non-Anglophone higher education setting. Adopting a qualitative case study approach, the res...
Experience is crucial for enhancing task performance. However, rescue experience, as a key contributor to individual and team capabilities within fire brigades, has not received sufficient attention in fire safety management research. Based on the co...
Electroencephalography (EEG)-based emotion recognition is increasingly pivotal in the realm of affective brain–computer interfaces. In this paper, we propose TSANN-TG (temporal–spatial attention neural network with a task-specific graph),...
Background: Task-oriented approaches are recommended for children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) to address deficits in motor performance and reduce activity limitations. Although this approach is used in several settings, the efficac...
This article discusses the tasks involved in the operational assessment of the volume of produced goods, such as tomatoes. The large-scale implementation of computer vision systems in greenhouses requires approaches that reduce costs, time and comple...
Professional translators may resist highly directive AI assistance when it threatens perceived autonomy, authorship, and control. This study introduces the Recursive Control and Alignment Protocol (ReCAP), a reactance-aware framework for interactive...
Multiple object tracking (MOT) in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) videos is a fundamental task and can be applied in many fields. MOT consists of two critical procedures, i.e., object detection and re-identification (ReID). One-shot MOT, which incorpor...
Task-specific ionic liquids (TSILs) are ionic liquids with structures and, consequently, properties and behaviors designed for particular applications. In this work, task-specific ILs with alkylammonium or benzalkonium cations and carboxyl groups in...
Saccadic eye movements are simple, visually guided actions. Operant conditioning of specific saccade directions can reduce the latency of eye movements in the conditioned direction. However, it is not clear to what extent this learning transfers from...
This study employs Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations and traditional all-atom Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations to reveal atomistic insights into a task-specific Deep Eutectic Solvent (DES) supported by graphene oxide with the aim of mim...
To develop new rehabilitation therapies for chronic stroke, this study examined the effectiveness of task-specific training (TST) and TST combined with DNA methyltransferase inhibitor in chronic stroke recovery. Eight weeks after photothrombotic stro...
Ionic liquids (ILs) are often described as designer solvents. However, a single cation–anion pair rarely optimizes phase stability, transport properties, and task-specific functions simultaneously. Mixing introduces composition as a continuous...
Breast cancer, the most prevalent malignancy among women globally, requires precise assessment of lymph node metastases in whole-slide images (WSIs) for accurate clinical staging and therapeutic planning. However, manual assessment is laborious and p...
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Functional impairment of the upper limb (UL) after stroke is a great problem. Finding methods that can improve UL function after stroke is a major concern to all medical service providers. This study was intended to compare the effect of upper limb t...
Botulinum toxin (BoTX) is the standard treatment for task-specific dystonias (TSDs) such as musician’s dystonia (MD). Our aim was to assess the long-term changes in BoTX treatment in a highly homogeneous and, to our knowledge, largest group of MD pat...
Ionic liquids (IL) are proposed as an alternative to conventional organic solvents. Among them, there is a subgroup called task-specific ionic liquid (TSIL), in which a functional group is covalently attached to the cation or to the anion. This is al...
Background and objectives: Common problems in stroke patients include loss of proprioception, spasticity, and impaired gait. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of task-specific training (TST) combined with cognitive sensorimotor exe...
The frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) technique is widely used in secure communications. In this technique, the signal carrier frequency hops over a large band. The conventional non-compressed receiver must sample the signal at high rates to c...
Need for Cognition (NFC) refers to the enjoyment of and the search for intellectual challenges. Although numerous studies suggest associations between NFC and cognitive performance, the processes and factors that may mediate the relationship are not...
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) require a comprehensive understanding of multiple tasks related to the physical and mental states of drivers and traffic situations. Existing ADAS studies perform driver emotion recognition (DER), driver beha...
This work presents new composites of AAILs@MCM-48 obtained by functionalizing ordered mesoporous silica MCM-48 with two amino acid-based ionic liquids (AAILs) ([Emim][Gly] and [Emim][Ala]) to improve carbon capture and the selectivity of CO2 over nit...
A series of salts based on ethyl ester glycine-betaine derivatives, viz tri(n-pentyl)[2-ethoxy-2-oxoethyl]ammonium bromide, have been synthesized. These cations generate hydrophobic ionic liquids (ILs) with bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (Tf2N&min...
Measuring the temporal complexity of functional MRI (fMRI) time series is one approach to assess how brain activity changes over time. In fact, hemodynamic response of the brain is known to exhibit critical behaviour at the edge between order and dis...
As technological advancements increase exponentially, mobile phones become smarter with machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms. These advancements have allowed mobile phone users to perform most of their daily routine tasks on mobile...
Image compression has evolved from human-centric perceptual coding toward support for diverse machine vision applications, requiring modern codecs to serve both human viewing and downstream tasks in closed-set settings (where target tasks are incorpo...
The triplet extraction (TE) task aims to identify the entities and relations mentioned in a given text. TE consists of two tasks: named entity recognition (NER) and relation classification (RC). Previous work has either treated TE as two separate tas...
This position paper offers a perspective on the long-standing debate concerning the role of oromotor, nonverbal gestures in understanding typical and disordered speech motor control secondary to neurological disease. Oromotor nonverbal tasks are empl...
Task-specific focal dystonia is characterized by muscle contraction(s) during a specific task, resulting in abnormal postures or movements. Specifically, writer’s cramp involves the upper extremity during the act of writing. Musician’s dy...
Self-efficacy is relevant to sport performance, but its role in artistic gymnastics is unclear because studies vary in construct definition, timing, and outcomes. This PRISMA 2020- and PERSIST 2021-informed systematic review was prospectively registe...
Background: Math achievement is an important predictor of academic success. While many studies have examined math achievement in young children, studies with older children are scarce. This study focused on primary- and middle-school students, examin...
To address the performance degradation of violation action recognition models due to changing operational scenes in power grid operations, this paper proposes a Few-shot Adaptive Network (FSA-Net). The method incorporates few-shot learning into the n...
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...
The yips are a set of conditions associated with intermittent motor disturbances that affect precision movement, especially in sports. Specifically, skilled golfers suffer from the yips, although its clinical characteristics and pathophysiology have...
The diversity of IoT services and applications brings enormous challenges to improving the performance of multiple computer tasks’ scheduling in cross-layer cloud computing systems. Unfortunately, the commonly-employed frameworks fail to adapt...
Task-specific training has been shown to be an effective neuromotor rehabilitation intervention, however, this repetitive approach is not always very engaging. Virtual reality (VR) systems are becoming increasingly popular in therapy due to their abi...
Background: Stroke survivors experience significant alterations in their daily functionality that has a negative impact on their functionality, participation, and quality of life. Person-centered approaches in Physical Therapy interventions that are...
The rapid advancement of quantum technologies has led to a growing and diverse landscape of quantum computing devices, each with varying architectures and capabilities. Most of them are evaluated using hardware-centric benchmarks such as gate fidelit...
Detecting small targets poses significant challenges due to the limited feature information and the aggregation of features in deep feature maps. Existing single-stage detectors handle classification and regression separately, leading to inconsistent...
Stroke often leads to persistent upper limb dysfunction that impairs activities of daily living, yet objective biomechanical indicators for precise assessment remain limited. This study aimed to characterize phase-specific impairments in energy outpu...
Service robots need to reason to support people in daily life situations. Reasoning is an expensive resource that should be used on demand whenever the expectations of the robot do not match the situation of the world and the execution of the task is...
Despite almost half a century of research into students’ difficulties with solving linear equations, these difficulties persist in everyday mathematics classes around the world. Furthermore, the difficulties reported decades ago are the same ones tha...
Background: Strength and conditioning experts widely recognize the dynamic strength index (DSI) as a tool for assessing an athlete’s ability to utilize strength in dynamic actions. The DSI is calculated as the ratio of peak force in dynamic act...
Domain-specific systems on chip (DSSoCs) aim to narrow the gap between general-purpose processors and application-specific designs. CPU clusters enable programmability, whereas hardware accelerators tailored to the target domain minimize task executi...
We agree with the commentary that discrepant results across cross-task conflict adaptation studies are likely explained by methodological differences. Considering additional studies and paradigms, we argue that, collectively, the weight of the eviden...
Sentence repetition tasks (SRTs) have been widely used in language development research for decades. In recent years, there has been increasing interest in studying performance in SRTs as a clinical marker for language impairment. What are the charac...
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