The process involved participants working through the decision tool in the presence of the interviewer and reflecting on the ease of completion and the value of the tool.
On completion the highest value of corresponds to the optimum partitioning of the data.
24 After completion of this process, the value of Δ f was −24.3±0.5 Hz and Δ D was 0.04±0.1×10−6 indicating that a high-quality bilayer with a low number of defects was formed.
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Change in the three executive functions was calculated by subtracting the trial completion value from the baseline value.
Each pathway has its own completion value (completion value = the number of enzymatic reactions in a particular pathway in a given organism/the total number of enzymatic reactions in the same pathway in MetaCyc).
On-line learning was obtained by normalizing the completion time values to the first training block, and off-line learning was obtained by normalizing the retest values to the last training block.
Upon completion of all the questionnaires, the value of each edge is automatically computed by applying Fuzzy Set Theory on the participants' answers.
The result of the query is shown in pane D of Figure 2 (bottom) in which, for each analysed metabolic pathway, the value of its completion in the compared genomes is given (it ranges between 0 = absence of the pathway, and 1 = complete pathway).
The weight values of more than 0.5 give a more weight to the weighted mean completion time criterion, whereas the values of less than 0.5 give a more weight to the C max criterion.
