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Design of Experiments is a well-known method used to describe complicated processes in the way that we can recognize the dependencies between the input factors inside. Because of that we use this method in order to describe the personal performance process as a result from the individual employees' features. Adopting the FMEA over the different roles and responsibilities in the software process we...
The world has recently witnessed several disasters, wherein the human cost of the catastrophe depended strongly on the delivery time of critical rescue information, mostly through strangers, on the location and status of individuals. Unfortunately, these are often situations wherein technology ceases to function. Pen-and-paper solutions then become the only viable option for information transfer....
There is growing evidence from patient and psychoneuroimmunology studies that there is a clear correlation between the psychosocial stress and health state, but the neural mechanism of the correlation remain poorly understood. The deactivations of the limbic system and anterior frontal cortex during acute psychosocial stress were reported in recent studies, and the observed results suggest these brain...
Graph theoretical analysis has been applied to both structural and functional brain connectivity networks and has helped researchers conceive the effects of neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases including Alzhemier and Schizophrenia. However, existing graph theoretical approaches to brain connectivity networks simply assume that temporal correlations between brain regions are stable during the...
Default-mode networks (DMNs) is a part of so-called resting-state networks associated with intrinsic neuronal activations of the human brain. DMNs represent distinct spatial patterns of neuronal activations within anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), medial superior, and middle frontal gyri (i.e., anterior DMN, or aDMN) and posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) along with precuneus (i.e., posterior DMN, or...
The human arm may be considered to be a redundant mechanism given a pointing task. As a result, multiple arm configurations can be used to complete a pointing task in which the tip of the index finger is brought to a preselected point in space. A kinematic model of the human arm with four degrees of freedom (DOF) and the synthesis of two criteria were developed as an analytical tool for studying position...
Artificial creatures need an intelligent behavior selection method to be used as an intermediate interface for natural interaction with users. For this purpose, the mechanisms of thought were proposed based on the probability and the degree of consideration. However, they were time-consuming when applying to an intelligent artificial creature with large numbers of wills, contexts and behaviors. Moreover,...
Even though people deal with deceptions throughout their whole lives, deception detection remains a challenging problem. The average detection rate for humans is only around chance, and detection skill is unlikely to be improved through training. Therefore, researchers have studied the features of deceptive behaviors that were largely ignored in human detection. For example, physiologists look at...
In recent years diverse quality measures to support the exploration of high-dimensional data sets have been proposed. Such measures can be very useful to rank and select information-bearing projections of very high dimensional data, when the visual exploration of all possible projections becomes unfeasible. But even though a ranking of the low dimensional projections may support the user in the visual...
Although social network services (SNS) have high possibility as a communication tool, there are many problems as to the use of e-healthcare. It has too many functions and has difficult human interfaces for beginners. Moreover, how introducing a user to an SNS and retain the user's motivation are important issues. Twitter, an SNS that has rapidly advanced in Japan, was selected as the research target...
During face-to-face interpersonal interaction, people have a tendency to mimic each other. People not only mimic postures, mannerisms, moods or emotions, but they also mimic several speech-related behaviors. In this paper we describe how visual and vocal behavioral information expressed between two interlocutors can be used to detect and identify visual and vocal mimicry. We investigate expressions...
In this paper, a novel image quality assessment, called Structure Analysis Image Quality Measurement (SAIM), is proposed by evaluating the difference of the distorted image from the reference image on three aspects: the average luminance, edge intensity and orientation. It is sensitive to edge change, which consists well with the perceptual characteristics of human vision. The experiment results demonstrate...
This paper provides an insight into job dimensions of employees with different work experience in two phases of introducing CIM in four Chinese furniture firms. The findings of the study illustrate that there are negative impacts of introducing the new manufacturing system on job dimensions of workers, especially for the workers without related work experience before starting their current job. The...
Visual complexity perception is an important issue in the fields of psychology and computer vision because it leads to the better understanding of the nature of human perception as well as the properties of the objects being perceived. In this study, five important characteristics of texture images that affect visual complexity perception are identified: regularity, understandability, roughness, directionality,...
Captured human motion data are used so that humanoid robots or computer graphics (CG) characters can behave naturally. Because the motion capture system is expensive, and time-consuming process is needed to acquire motion data, technology that enables to reuse existing motion data efficiently is required. This paper proposes motion retrieval method with natural language word based on stochastic correlation...
Organizational culture strongly affects the organizational commitment of employees. Healthy organizational culture and environment bounds the employees to that organization which also results in decrease in turnover. Psychology plays a vital role in employee's commitment to the organization. There are many factors of organizational culture which are having direct relation with the employee's commitment...
We have presented a novel method for human gait recognition, which is based on detecting the electrostatic induction current generated by the walking motion under non-contact conditions. The method involves the measurement of this electrostatic induction current, which flows through a measurement electrode. A model for the electrostatic induction current generated because of a change in the electric...
Prediction and evaluation errors of self-performance (overestimation and underestimation) sometimes bring serious consequences. The present study examined possible causes for over- and under-estimations by using a newly devised task-transfer paradigm. The experiment consisted of two sessions. In the first learning session, participants learned rules for button presses in response to particular combinations...
Tinaspora crispa and Gelam (Melaleuca sp.) honey were identified as potential anti-proliferative agents due to presence of high antioxidant activity. In this research, human breast adenocarcinoma (MCF-7), human colorectal carcinoma (HCT116), human hepatocellular carcinoma (HepG2) and adenocarcinoma human alveolar basal epithelial (A549) cell lines were treated with both extracts and further diagnosed...
In this study, we developed and tested a model of human resource management (HRM) systems by integrating performance-based rewards, organizational innovative climates and human resource planning to analyze the relationship between the HRM systems and innovative performance. Three hundred and nine employees from high technology industries of Taizhou City in Zhejiang Province of China participated,...
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