To induce mental fatigue, participants performed mental tasks, which consisted of the advanced trail making test, kana pick-out test and mirror drawing test, for 8 hr, corresponding to a normal work day.
6 A task which consists of a single sub-task in each of its segments is considered a sequential task.
The first was a whole-brain task, which consisted of 60 consecutively presented slices from one patient; the second was an independent-slice detection task, which consisted of 32 independent slices from five different patients.
At each stage of the product development process, the designers are facing an important task which consists of decision making.
High utility itemset mining is an emerging data mining task, which consists of discovering highly profitable itemsets (called high utility itemsets) in very large transactional databases.
Brazilian (n=166) and European American (n=99) children with ages ranging from 37 to 140 months were administered a resource allocation task, which consisted of distributing rewards to themselves or to an acquaintance.
The resulting networks are applied to feature enhancement in the context of the 2013 2nd Computational Hearing in Multisource Environments (CHiME) Challenge track 2 task, which consists of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ-0) corpus distorted by highly non-stationary, convolutive noise.
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) and control participants received an affect discrimination task, which consisted of the following cue situations: (1) facial expression and unfiltered speech; (2) lowpass-filtered speech only; (3) facial expression only; and (4) facial expression and filtered speech.
The Focus task, which consists in emphasizing one word in a sentence, was also more difficult for the HFA group, suggesting a problem with stress.
More particularly, the Turn-end task, which consists in differentiating between a question and a statement, involves intonation, i.e., pitch variations.
