Пілотна оцінка ставлення експертів до значущості характерних рис інноваційної привабливості об’єктів інтелектуальної власності

Modern technology transfer is associated, inter alia, with the selection and implementation into production of the objects of intellectual property. At the same time, proactive assessment of the investors’ or experts’ attitude to the characteristics and indicators of these objects determines the appropriate "order" and promotes more effective interaction between the producers and the users of intellectual property. The experts’ preference patterns as the ordered series of many characteristics of attractiveness for innovation of objects of intellectual property are one of the indicators of human influence on decision-making about the degree of acceptability of a particular object and should be used to implement the method of successive concessions based on the pattern recognition methodology, "glob pattern/masks" of this acceptability. The research involved m = 90 highly qualified specialists who are constantly involved in UkrISTEI to provide various expert examinations. A more up-to-date list of n=18 characteristics of attractiveness for innovation of objects of intellectual property has been formed, which allows to study these objects comprehensively and to the fullest extent. The pairwise comparison and normative method of establishing part of the total value (significance, acceptability) of these characteristics were used by the experts, who took part in the research. They built individual systems of preferences, which were then aggregated into a group preference pattern using a group decision-making strategy such as summarizing and grade averaging. Verification of consistency of the group preference pattern revealed that the obtained empirical value of the Kendall's coefficient of concordance is statistically valid at an unusually high level of significance of a= 1% as for human factor studies. However, it does not satisfy the criterion for the minimum acceptable value: Wemp.=0,4772<Wmin=0,7. The ways of further research related to the application of multi-step technology of detection and elimination of marginal thoughts while eliminating the statistical error of the "survivor", as well as improving the group preference pattern where the classical Savage’s criterion in decision-making and the Kemeni median are applied.

Motor Lateralization May Be Influenced by Long-Term Piano Playing Practice

Motor lateralization is viewed as anatomical or functional asymmetry of the two sides of the body. Functional motor asymmetry can be influenced by musical practice. This study explored whether piano playing experience modulates motor asymmetry and leads to an altered pattern of hand selection, reflecting an altered handedness. We asked two groups of right-handed participants—piano players and non-piano players—to reach targets in their frontal space with both arms, and we tested the motor performance of each arm on this task and then on an arm preference test. As musical practice can decrease motor asymmetry between arms, we hypothesized that participants with piano playing experience would display less interlimb asymmetry and that this, in turn, would change their arm preference pattern, compared with participants without piano playing experience. We found support for both hypotheses, and we conclude that arm selection (preference) is not biologically fixed, but, rather, can be modulated through long-term piano playing.

Preference Pattern for Mobile Phone and Conventional Tools in Task Performance by Students of Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria

Mobile phones have become very popular among people in different countries of the world and apart from the traditional role of making and receiving of calls; they have been adopted for several other uses. Its use for those activities tends to pose challenge to the conventional media tools that are used traditionally to perform those activities. The study thus aims at determining the pattern of mobile phone usage by students of Delta State University, Abraka; their preference pattern for mobile telephone and conventional media tools in carrying out certain activities; and the implication of their use of mobile telephone on conventional media toolsThe study adopted the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), which explains how a person comes to accept and use an information technology. Survey and questionnaire were used as the research method and instrument respectively. The data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. The study found that the students preferred using mobile phones to perform tasks that were originally performed with conventional media tools; and the use of mobile phone by the students also suggested a diminishing patronage of conventional media tools. The study recommends that providers of those conventional media tools should improve on their services to avoid losing patronage, and they should make their products and services adaptable to mobile phone users in order to boost patronage.