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From:Exceptional Children (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of the study was to determine whether the technique of task variation (with maintenance tasks interspersed) (TV) is more effective in the acquisition of gross motor skills for students with autism than a...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 94, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA study was conducted to determine the efficiency of the quality delegation grid as a management tool for delegating tasks among dietetics support personnel. Because delegation strategies differ among hospitals, it is...
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From:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research (Vol. 47, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is evidence that the left hemisphere is more competent for motor control than the right hemisphere. This study investigated whether this hemispheric asymmetry is expressed in the latency/duration of sequential...
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From:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 48, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedRecent studies have shown that sorting tasks are a useful tool both for measuring and aiding student learning as well as facilitating the transfer of knowledge to novel contexts. These tasks require students to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedMind wandering has been considered as a mental process that is either independent from the concurrent task or regulated like a secondary task. These accounts predict that the form of mind wandering (i.e., images or...
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From:Journal of Behavioral Education (Vol. 25, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTask analyses are ubiquitous to applied behavior analysis interventions, yet little is known about the factors that make them effective. Numerous task analyses have been published in behavior analytic journals for...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 9, Issue 21)Communications operators at NASA's Ames Research Center are installing a relational database management system, called the Communications Task Order Tracking System (CTOTS). This system lets officials monitor task orders...
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From:Human Factors (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe present study examined the effects of task complexity and time on task on the monitoring of a single automation failure during performance of a complex flight simulation task involving tracking, fuel management, and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe default mode network (DMN), the salience network (SN), and the central executive network (CEN) are considered as the core resting-state brain networks (RSN) due to their involvement in a wide range of cognitive...
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From:Human Factors (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTroubleshooting is often a time-consuming and difficult activity. The question of how the training of novice technicians can be improved was the starting point of the research described in this article. A cognitive task...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 320, Issue 7239) Peer-ReviewedEDITOR--I agree with Wilson that we will see many more specialised, niche-type healthcare facilities in the future rather than the all purpose giant mammoths that dominate the hospital landscape currently.[1] I believe,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedStable personality dispositions, like motives, are often assumed to exert a direct, stable impact on behavior. This also applies to the explicit achievement motive, which is supposed to influence the behavior that...
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From:Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (Vol. 21, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedSummary In this paper, we review the literature on nursing workload in intensive care units (ICUs) and its impact on patient safety and quality of working life of nurses. We then propose a conceptual framework of ICU...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 80, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Humor is a quintessentially social phenomenon, since every joke requires both a teller and an audience. Here we ask how humor operates in task-oriented group discussions. We use theories about the functions...
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From:Human Factors (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Critical Decision Method (CDM) is an approach to cognitive task analysis. The method involves multiple-pass event retrospection guided by probe questions. The CDM has been used in the elicitation of expert knowledge...
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From:Organization Science (Vol. 18, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhile prior research has found that familiarity is beneficial to team performance, it is not clear whether different kinds of familiarity are more or less beneficial when the work has different types of complexity. In...
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From:Technical Training (Vol. 10, Issue 2)Kim E. Ruyle is a performance techologist and CEO of plus Delta Performance (1500 Green Bay Street LaCrosse, WI 54601; kruyle@pdp.com). Task analysis is the key to identifying performance problems and developing...
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From:Communications of the ACM (Vol. 32, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedMost attempts to provide an accurate and meaningful evaluation of authoring systems for computer-assisted instruction fail to deal with every phase of the authoring process. A model for evaluation is presented that...
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From:Communications of the ACM (Vol. 35, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedKnowledge-based systems (KBS) require a clear delineation of the relationship between tasks and the knowledge and inferences required to perform them. A task is a type of problem solving goal, such as diagnosis, and must...
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From:Communications of the ACM (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEntity-life modeling based on a modern language such as Ada offers an efficient programming method for managing real-time concurrent tasks. Entity-life modeling differs from other software design approaches in that...