Hue discrimination in jewellery appraisers exceeds normal performance

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie A Lovell ◽  
Jeff C Rabin
Keyword(s):  
Normal Performance

Category-Specific Naming and the Importance of Normal Performance

Cortex ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 860 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Frederico Marques
Keyword(s):  
Normal Performance

Macroeconomic Performance and Government Popularity in New Zealand

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEINRICH W. URSPRUNG
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
Macroeconomic Variables ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Macroeconomic Condition ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
Normal Performance ◽  
Forward Looking

This article empirically investigates the effects of macroeconomic variables on the popularity of the New Zealand government by testing various popularity functions for the period 1970-1981. The results unambiguously show that the existence of this important politico-economic relationship cannot be doubted. In particular, the empirical results suggest that New Zealand voters are (1) forward-looking rather than backward-looking, (2) capable of comparing the actual macroeconomic condition with some notion of a variable “normal” performance, and (3) well aware of the openness of their economy.

scholarly journals Selección temprana de líneas S1 de maíz ricas en lisina: I probadores.

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
María Cristina Vega ◽  
Enrique Navarro ◽  
José Espinoza ◽  
Gustavo A. Buciaga ◽  
José Luis Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Grain Yield ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Agronomic Performance ◽  
Lysine Content ◽  
Fusarium Spp ◽  
Maize Breeding ◽  
High Lysine ◽  
Genetic Base ◽  
Randomized Complete Block Design ◽  
Normal Performance

This research involved ninety-six S1 maize lines with the opaque-2 gene that carne from populations 63 (26 lines), 65 (12 lines), and 68 (58 lines) from the CIMMYT maize breeding programo The S1 lines selected in the laboratory because of their high lysine content were crossed with five testers that had a different genetic base: a synthetic variety, two early lines derived from this variety, and two single intermediate crosses of normal performance. The test crosses were evaluated and compared with five control s (two commercial and three experimental hybrids) using a randomized complete block design in two sites in Mexico during 1992. The objecti ves of this research were to select SI lines in early generations according to their agronomic performance, grain lysine content, and GCA grain yield, and to compare testers' efficiency in discriminating S1 lines. On average, the SI lines of population 63 showed a greater grain yield as compared to that of populations 65 and 68 combined with all testers, except in the case of the synthetic tester YS- 201-M. A line from population 65 combined with tester B3 x B5 showed the highest grain yield (10,23 t ha-I), representing a superiority of 4% above the best commercial hybrid, AN- 447. A total ofthirty-one Sllines were selected based on their agronomic attributes and grain yield: 13, 14, and 4 from populations 63, 65 and 68 respectively]. Tester B3 x B5 tumed out to be the best line discriminator according to the following criteria: grain yield, percentage of ears damaged by Fusarium spp., and number of rotten ears.

Intensive chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, carmustine, and etoposide followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation for relapsed Hodgkin's disease.

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1871-1879 ◽  
Author(s):  
D E Reece ◽  
M J Barnett ◽  
J M Connors ◽  
R N Fairey ◽  
J W Fay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hodgkin's Disease ◽  
Hodgkin’S Disease ◽  
Performance Status ◽  
Autologous Bone Marrow Transplantation ◽  
Autologous Bone Marrow ◽  
Event Free Survival ◽  
Conventional Chemotherapy ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Autologous Bone ◽  
Normal Performance

Fifty-six consecutive patients with advanced Hodgkin's disease considered incurable with further conventional chemotherapy were entered into a protocol that included high-dose cyclophosphamide (7.2 g/m2), carmustine (BCNU; 0.6 g/m2), and etoposide (VP16-213; 2.4 g/m2) (CBV) followed by autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT). Prior combination chemotherapy had failed in all the patients, and all but five had been previously treated with both mechlorethamine, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (MOPP) and doxorubicin, bleomycin, and vinblastine with or without dacarbazine (ABV[D]). Thirty-four eligible patients received short-course conventional chemotherapy and/or involved-field radiotherapy before CBV. However, formal restaging was not performed after these conventional therapies; ie, the therapies were not used to select responding patients for transplantation, and all who received such therapy subsequently received CBV and autologous marrow grafts. Forty-four patients (80%; 95% confidence interval [CI], 69% to 91%) achieved a complete response after CBV and BMT. Performance status at protocol entry and the use of conventional cytoreduction therapy before CBV correlated with response. Median follow-up is now 3.5 years (range, 2.5 to 5.0 years). Kaplan-Meier estimates for overall and event-free survival 5 years after transplant are 53% (95% CI, 37% to 67%) and 47% (95% CI, 33% to 60%), respectively. In a univariate analysis, patients with a normal performance status and those without constitutional ("B") symptoms at protocol entry had an improved overall and event-free survival. In a multivariate analysis, only a normal performance status remained significant. Disease progression occurred in 17 patients at an actuarial rate of 39% (95% CI; 26% to 56%) and occurred at previous sites of active disease in all but one patient; our analysis did not identify prognostic factors for progression. Toxic deaths, caused by either neutropenic sepsis or interstitial pneumonitis (IP), occurred in 12 patients (21%; 95% CI, 10% to 32%). CBV with autologous marrow support can produce durable remissions in a substantial number of patients with Hodgkin's disease considered incurable with conventional measures. Regimen refinements may even further improve the therapeutic index of BMT in this malignancy.

Normal Body Perception despite the Loss of Right Fusiform Gyrus

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 614-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tirta Susilo ◽  
Hua Yang ◽  
Zachary Potter ◽  
Rachel Robbins ◽  
Bradley Duchaine
Keyword(s):  
Fusiform Gyrus ◽  
Extrastriate Cortex ◽  
Body Perception ◽  
Body Area ◽  
Normal Body ◽  
Functional Regions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Normal Performance ◽  
Normal Perception

Human extrastriate cortex contains functional regions that are selective for particular categories such as faces, bodies, and places, but it is unclear whether these category-selective regions are necessary for normal perception of their preferred stimuli. One of these regions is the right fusiform body area (FBA), which is selectively involved in body perception. Do loss of the right fusiform gyrus and the absence of the right FBA necessarily lead to deficits in body perception? Here we report the performance of Galen, a brain-damaged patient who lost the right fusiform gyrus and has no right FBA, on eight tasks of body perception. Despite his lesion, Galen showed normal performance on all tasks. Galen's results demonstrate that damage to the right fusiform gyrus and the lack of the right FBA do not necessarily lead to persisting deficits in body perception.

Sustained Attention in a Counting Task: Normal Performance and Functional Neuroanatomy

NeuroImage ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 411-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Ortuño ◽  
N. Ojeda ◽  
J. Arbizu ◽  
P. López ◽  
J.M. Martı́-Climent ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Functional Neuroanatomy ◽  
Counting Task ◽  
Normal Performance

Implicit Memory Performance of Patients With Alzheimer's Disease: A Brief Review

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Jelicic ◽  
Annette E. Bonebakker ◽  
Benno Bonke
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Implicit Memory ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Impaired Performance ◽  
Conscious Recollection ◽  
Previous Learning ◽  
Normal Performance

Memory can be assessed with either explicit or implicit tasks. Implicit memory tasks, in contrast with explicit tasks, do not refer to conscious recollection of a previous learning experience. Implicit memory is revealed by a change in task performance that can be attributed to previous learning. Amnesic patients perform poorly on explicit memory tasks, but exhibit normal performance on implicit tasks. Recently, researchers have studied the implicit memory performance of patients with Alzheimer's disease. This article aims to give an overview of the performance of Alzheimer patients on four tasks of implicit memory. Compared with normal elderly controls, patients with Alzheimer's disease seem to demonstrate impaired performance on conceptual, but not on perceptual, implicit memory tasks. This dissociation could yield important information about the neurologic systems subserving implicit memory processes. Some suggestions for future research into the implicit memory of Alzheimer patients are given.

scholarly journals Social motivation is reduced in vasopressin 1b receptor null mice despite normal performance in an olfactory discrimination task

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 638-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott R. Wersinger ◽  
Kevin R. Kelliher ◽  
Frank Zufall ◽  
Stephen J. Lolait ◽  
Anne-Marie O'Carroll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discrimination Task ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Olfactory Discrimination ◽  
Normal Performance
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