Swedish Defence Research Agency

About: Swedish Defence Research Agency is a government organization based out in Stockholm, Sweden. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Radar & Laser. The organization has 1413 authors who have published 2731 publications receiving 56083 citations. The organization is also known as: Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut.

Compensating strategies in collaborative remembering in very old couples.

Abstract: This study investigates collaborative memory performance in very old married couples working in two types of participant constellations, and with two types of memory tasks, i.e. working as couples, or as individuals in episodic or semantic memory tasks. Sixty-two old married couples were a priori classified as high or low on two dimensions suggested to be important for successful collaboration, i.e. responsibility (how division of responsibility was organized) and agreement (how they mutually agreed on each other's view). The episodic memory task was immediate recall of short stories. The semantic memory tasks were to answer questions about names, places, and concepts. The results suggested that: (1) groups outperformed a single individual, but (2) groups in general suffered from collaboration relative to the predicted potential in episodic tasks only, thus replicating earlier results. Nevertheless, (3) the couples scoring high on division of responsibility achieved the same productivity as nominal pairs (i.e. the predicted potential); (4) the couples scoring high on the agreement dimension showed that they were not as affected by collaboration, but then performed less well in "absolute" performance. Finally, the results were discussed in terms of optimal compensation strategies, especially for elderly couples.

ZnGeP2 parametric oscillator pumped by a linewidth-narrowed parametric 2 μm source

Abstract: A tandem optical parametric oscillator (OPO) is used to convert radiation from 1.064 μm to the mid-infrared. Spectral bandwidth narrowing close to 80 times compared with a conventional cavity was a ...

A Meta-Analysis of Studies on Protection Motivation Theory and Information Security Behaviour

Abstract: Individuals' willingness to take security precautions is imperative to their own information security and the information security of the organizations they work within. This paper presents a meta-analysis of the protection motivation theory PMT to assess how its efficacy is influenced by the information security behavior it is applied to. It investigates if the PMT explains information security behavior better if: 1 The behavior is voluntary? 2 The threat and coping method is concrete or specific? 3 The information security threat is directed to the person itself? Synthesized data from 28 surveys suggests that the answers to all three questions are yes. Weighted mean correlation coefficients are on average 0.03 higher for voluntary behavior than mandatory behavior, 0.05 higher for specific behaviors than studies of general behaviors, 0.08 higher to threat appraisal when the threat targets the individual person instead of the person's organization or someone else.