Recognition, improving performance

Caffeine improves performance on tests of semantic memory, free recall, and recognition memory (Smith et al. 1994 Warburton 1995). However, the effects are both dose and task dependent. In some studies, higher doses produced greater improvement, while in others subjects receiving caffeine performed slightly worse than placebo (Loke 1988 ... 

The authors briefly discuss some of the problems for air cooled heat exchangers and cooling towers using axial fans. The balance of the paper discusses ways to improve system efficiencies in three areas before the fan system design is finalized, improvements in the physical equipment as installed, and recognition of performance problems caused by adjacent equipment. Results of a full-scale test illustrating fan efficiency contributions of various components are given. 1 ref. cited. 

Activators and consequences are external to the performer (as in the environment), or internal (as in self-instructions or self-recognition). They can be intrinsic or extrinsic to a behavior, meaning that they provide direction or motivation naturally as a task is performed (as in a computer game), or they are added to the situation extrinsically to improve performance. An incentive/reward program is... 

Encouraging and rewarding improved performance through awards, recognition, and the like... 

Modification of electrode surfaces with polymer is seeking the same objective as with monolayers, i.e., the improvement of the analytical performances in terms of selectivity and sensitivity. These improved performances can be achieved by the nature of the polymer itself (e.g., perfluorinated cation-exchanger Nafion ) or by the incorporation of chemical functionalities. Recognition elements (e.g., biomolecules, ligands) can be entrapped during the polymerization process (electro- or photopolymerization) or attached after polymerization by chemical grafting or by... 

The predictions checked in the pilot-plant reactor were reasonable. Later, when the production unit was improved and operators learned how to control the large-scale reactor, performance prediction was also very good. The highest recognition came from production personnel, who believed more in the model than in their instruments. When production performance did not agree with model predictions, they started to check their instruments, rather than questioning the model. 

In this context, Benson and Ponton declare that while the chemical industry has made considerable achievements in reactor performance, safety and control, comparable to those in the microelectronics business, this success is by no means evident to the public, in deep contrast to the latter [139], It is said that this is mainly and in a way simply due to the visual recognition of chemical production plants. From a distance and for somebody outside the field, the chemical plants of the late 1940s and the early 1990s look virtually similar, whereas one is able immediately to see the big differences in, e.g., television sets and automobiles. Hence it is not evident that notable improvements were made over the decades. 

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