64. Some Mexican Picture-Names.

Activation of distractor names in the picture-picture interference paradigm.

In four experiments, participants named target pictures that were accompanied by distractor pictures with phonologically related or unrelated names. Across experiments, the type of phonological relationship between the targets and the related distractors was varied: They were homophones (e.g., bat [animal/baseball]), or they shared word-initial segments (e.g., dog-doll) or word-final segments (...

On Some Recognizable Picture-Languages

We show that the language of pictures over fa; bg, where all occurring b's are connected is recognizable, which solves an open problem in Mat98]. We generalize the used construction to show that monocausal deterministically recognizable picture languages are recognizable, which is surprisingly nontrivial. Furthermore we show that the language of pictures over fa; bg, where the number of a's is ...

Curanderismo: a picture of Mexican-American folk healing.

On Some Diseases Bearing Names of Saints

^'hile the history of medicine has been written with diligence and research in various languages, and in some instances in a Portentous number of volumes, there are still many unexplored byways which may lead to discoveries of interest, though they 111 aV be of no striking importance. The folk-lore of different Peoples, popular superstitions in regard to disease, allusions to Medicine in the ol...

Some Mexican Plants Used in Traditional Medicine

In Mexico, there is an area known as semiarid region that is located in northern Mexico, and this region is rich in biodiversity (endemic flora and fauna). In the semiarid region of Mexico are more than 3500 species of plants that have been identified and used as natural alternatives to treat different ailments (digestive ailments, kidney problems, skin conditions, etc.). The use of plants for ...