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Reading Time: 5 minutes If you’re not focused on identity and access controls, then you are running blind to today’s threat landscape. Today, identity is what creates a pathway to your sensitive data. Many organizations are still speaking the language of firewalls, antivirus, endpoint protection, and vulnerabilities, yet cloud infrastructure is entirely different from that of legacy systems. Attack
MONROVIA – President George Manneh Weah has appointed the Bishop of the Reformed Cathedral of Hope Church Mr. George Wesseh Blamo as acting Minister of State for Presidential Affairs with a herculean task to rebuild the image of the Office of the Pre
As we age, many physical, perceptual and cognitive abilities decline, which can critically impact our day-to-day lives. However, the decline of many abilities is concurrent; thus, it is challenging to disentangle the relative contributions of different abilities in the performance deterioration in realistic tasks, such as road crossing, with age. Research into road crossing has shown that aging and a decline in executive functioning (EFs) is associated with altered information sampling and less safe crossing decisions compared to younger adults. However, in these studies declines in age and EF...
We previously reported the effects of two cluster-randomized 6-month multi-component workplace interventions, targeting reducing sedentary behavior or increasing physical activity among office workers, on movement behaviors and cardiorespiratory fitness. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the effects of these interventions on cognitive functions compared to a wait-list control group. The secondary aims were to examine if changes in cognition were related to change in cardiorespiratory fitness or movement behaviors and if age, sex, or cardiorespiratory fitness moderated these asso...
Human multitasking suffers from a central attentional bottleneck preventing parallel performance of central mental operations, leading to profound deferments in task performance. While previous research assumed that the deferment is caused by a mere waiting time (refractory period), we show that the bottleneck requires executive functions (EF; active scheduling account) accounting for a profound part of the deferment. Three participant groups with EF impairments (dyslexics, highly neurotics, deprived smokers) showed worse multitasking performance than respective control groups. Three further g...