(1) YEAST WEAKNESS

Pyramidal weakness.

The signs associated with an upper motor neurone syndrome vary considerably between text books. Often included are loss of dexterous, rapid and fractionated voluntary movements, variation of movement with mode of activation (prime mover, synergist, antagonist), weakness, various postural signs (eg, pronator drift), time-dependent tonal and tendon reflex changes and the extensor plantar response...

Quarantining Weakness

In sequential computing, every method of an object can be described in isolation via preconditions and postconditions. However, reasoning in a concurrent setting requires a characterization of all possible interactions across method invocations. Herlihy and Wing [1990]’s notion of linearizability simplifies such reasoning by intuitively ensuring that each method invocation “takes effect” betwee...

Muscle Weakness

Marked ligamentous hyperlaxity and muscle weakness/wasting associated with awkward gait are the main deficits confused with the diagnosis of myopathy. Seven children (6 boys and 1 girl with an average age of 8 years) were referred to our department because of diverse forms of skeletal abnormalities. No definitive diagnosis was made, and all underwent a series of sophisticated investigations in ...

Weakness and strength of will 1 The Evaluative Nature of the Folk Concepts of Weakness and Strength of Will

This article examines the evaluative nature of the folk concepts of weakness and strength of will and hypothesizes that their evaluative nature is strongly connected to the folk concepts of blame and credit. We probed how people apply the concepts of weakness and strength of will to prototypical and non-prototypical scenarios. While regarding prototypical scenarios the great majority applied th...

pH dependence of the inhibition of yeast glyoxalase 1 by prophyrins