Summary Sleep inertia is the brief period of performance impairment and reduced alertness experienced after waking, especially from slow‐wave sleep. We assessed efficacy polychromatic short‐wavelength‐enriched light to improve vigilant attention, mood immediately waking sleep at night. Twelve participants (six female, 23.3 ± 4.2 years) maintained an actigraphy‐confirmed schedule 8.5 hr for 5 nights, 1 night prior overnight laboratory visit. In laboratory, were awakened sleep, exposed either...

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> In modern communication systems, different users have requirements for quality of service (QoS). this work, QoS refers to the average codeword error probability experienced by in network. Although several practical schemes (collectively referred as unequal protection schemes) been studied literature and are implemented existing corresponding performance limits not an information-theoretic...

Under laboratory settings, light exposure upon waking at night improves sleep inertia symptoms. We investigated whether a field-deployable source would mitigate in real-world setting. Thirty-six participants (18 female; 26.6 years ± 6.1) completed an at-home, within-subject, randomized crossover study. Participants were awoken 45 minutes after bedtime and wore light-emitting glasses with the either on (light condition) or off (control). A visual 5-minute psychomotor vigilance task,...

The influence of biological sex on sleep inertia symptoms is currently unknown. We investigated the role differences in subjective experience and objective cognitive manifestation following nighttime awakenings.Thirty-two healthy adults (16 female, 25.91 ± 5.63 years) completed a 1-week at-home study with one experimental night during which was measured by polysomnography participants were awakened their habitual time. Participants psychomotor vigilance task, Karolinska Sleepiness Scale...

Maritime piloting operations involve on-call work schedules that may lead to sleep loss and circadian misalignment. Our study documented pilot scheduling practices (n = 61) over a one-year period. Most pilots worked week-on/week-off schedule. Work periods averaged 7.6 hours in duration up four ship assignments during given weeks total of 35.0 with working on average three consecutive days. Night was common (19.0 hours/week) 02:00 h the most starting hour for On-call occurred at irregular...

Extant literature on the financial analysis of football clubs has applied a vast array techniques in determining fiscal stability such entities. Although many studies have provided useful comparisons and analyses states various clubs, direct research comparing performance among is still scant. Hence, we present an application ratio to greater Italian market within Serie A. The main purpose this study assess top three currently listed Borsa Italiana (Italian Stock Exchange), those being:...

Abstract Human error has been implicated as a causal factor in large proportion of road accidents. Automated driving systems purport to mitigate this risk, but self-driving that allow driver entirely disengage from the task also require monitor environment and take control when necessary. Given sleep loss impairs monitoring performance there is high prevalence deficiency modern society, we hypothesized supervising vehicle would unmask latent sleepiness compared manually controlled among...

Summary Flight crews are frequently required to work irregular schedules and, as a result, can experience sleep deficiency and fatigue. This study was conducted determine whether perceived fatigue levels objective performance varied by time of day, awake, prior night's duration. Ninety‐five pilots (86 male, 9 female) aged 33 years (±8) volunteered for the study. Participants completed daily diary, Samn‐Perelli scale, psychomotor vigilance task that were before after each flight duty period...

This paper derives a lower bound of the form n <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">gamma-1</sup> to per-node throughput achievable by wireless network when source-destination pairs are randomly distributed throughout disk radius xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">gamma</sup> , 0 < gamma 1/2 and propagation is modeled an attenuation 1/(1 + d) xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">alpha</sup> alpha > 2

In the last few decades, sports world has seen precipitous rise of data-driven player analysis methods across many professional sports.In light these advents to field, current paper offers a novel application multi-criteria classification scheme developed within scholarly literature, that being: grey relational (GRA), milieu sports.Specifically, this technique is utilized in context National Basketball Association (NBA) rank regular seasons during Modern Era (i.e., since 1979-80 season,...

In this paper, we establish a new inequality tying together the effective length and maximum correlation between outputs of an arbitrary pair Boolean functions which operate on two sequences correlated random variables. We derive upper-bound these functions. The is useful in various disciplines deal with common-information. build upon Witsenhausen's [2] bound maximum-correlation. previous did not take into account. One possible application to characterize communication-cooperation tradeoff...

Three experiments explore how sport consumers respond to sponsor advertisements featuring a team that lost pivotal game. Drawing from social identity and appraisal theories, the authors hypothesize find high identifiers experience stronger negative emotions but less threat than low following their favorite team’s loss. When an advertisement features losing team, show favorable evaluations toward brand, whereas report more assessments. The results demonstrate tendency hide escape source of...

Exploration of deep space poses many challenges. Mission support personnel will not be immediately available to assist crewmembers performing complex operations on future long-duration exploration operations. Consequently, it is imperative that have objective, reliable, and non-invasive metrics aid them in determining their fitness for duty prior engaging potentially dangerous tasks. The Robotics On-­Board Trainer (ROBoT) task NASA’s platform training astronauts perform docking grappling...

We consider the task of faithfully simulating a distributed quantum measurement and function computation, demonstrate new achievable rate-region. For this, we develop technique randomly generating algebraic structured POVMs. To overcome challenges caused by construction, (i) Pruning Trace inequality which is tighter version known operator Markov (ii) covering lemma does not require Chernoff hence applicable to pairwise-independent codewords. rate gains for this problem over traditional...

The problem of bounding the reliability function a multiple access channel (MAC) is studied. Two new upper bounds on error exponent two-user discrete memoryless (DM)-MAC are derived. first bound (sphere packing) an average probability and this type that zero outside capacity region thus results in tighter sphere-packing when compared with tightest known derived by Haroutunian. second (minimum distance) maximal (as opposed to average) error. To obtain bound, first, minimum Bhattacharyya...

Prior research has illustrated that sport spectators, particularly those with higher team identification, display a willingness to engage in both hostile and instrumental aggressive acts towards opposing teams officials. With alcohol consumption prominent at major sporting events across the United States, relationship between drinking motivation deserves greater scrutiny. Individuals may consume for variety of reasons, such as positive, social reasons or negative motives seek escape aversive...

This paper models the crowdsourced labeling/classification problem as a sparsely encoded source coding problem, where each query answer, regarded code bit, is XOR of small number labels, information bits. In this we leverage connections between and well-studied codes with sparse representations for channel to provide querying schemes almost optimal queries, which involving only constant labels. We also extend scenario case some workers can be unresponsive. For case, propose involves log n...

It is shown that polar coding schemes achieve the known achievable rate regions for several multi-terminal communications problems including lossy distributed source coding, multiple access channels and descriptions coding. The results are valid arbitrary alphabet sizes (binary or non-binary) distributions (symmetric asymmetric).

George Floyd's death caused by police brutality fueled a wave of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement both nationally and globally. Almost every professional sports team in United States released statement pertaining to racial inequality social injustice. The current study investigated content word counts BLM statements posted on Twitter all teams across four major men's leagues: Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), Football (NFL), Hockey (NHL). Based series...

During the National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs, teams are required to frequently travel different venues play opponents in series of up seven games. Despite playoff schedules allowing for some rest between games, it is still possible face circadian misalignment when playing. Thus, current study serves as a replication and extension previous research, which has indicated that there an advantage playing closer their peak they traveling east. This specifically investigates effects...

In this work, a new lower bound for the maximal error probability of two-user discrete memoryless (DM) multiple-access channel (MAC) is derived. This first type that explicitly imposes independence userspsila input distributions (conditioned on time-sharing auxiliary variable) and thus results in tighter sphere-packing exponent when compared to tightest known derived by Haroutunian.