Sleep not just protects memories against forgetting, it also makes them more accessible

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Interleaving bisection stimuli – randomly or in sequence – does not disrupt perceptual learning, it just makes it more difficult

Presenting stimuli of two or more stimulus types randomly interleaved, so called roving, disrupts perceptual learning in many paradigms. Recently, it was shown that no disruption occurs when Gabor stimuli were presented interleaved in sequence, instead of randomly. Here, using bisection stimuli, we found the opposite pattern of results. Presenting bisection stimuli in a sequence disrupted perce...

If it does not kill them , it makes them stronger : collisional evolution of star clusters with tidal shocks

The radii of young ( 100Myr) star clusters correlate only weakly with their masses. This shallow relation has been used to argue that impulsive tidal perturbations, or ‘shocks’, by passing giant molecular clouds (GMCs) preferentially disrupt low-mass clusters. We show that this mass–radius relation is in fact the result of the combined effect of two-body relaxation and repeated tidal shocks. Cl...

Non-adherence with asthma therapy: more than just forgetting.

T he ubiquity of non-adherence with medication regimens is well-known to clinicians and has been extensively documented in the literature. Research that has quantified the frequency of pediatric non-adherence across a range of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cystic fibrosis has found that adherence levels #50% of prescribed dosage are common. Studies of children’s ...

Understanding behavior makes it more normal.

Meehl (1973) has informally observed that clinicians will perceive a patient as being more normal if they can understand the patient's behaviors. In Experiment 1, undergraduate participants received descriptions of 10 people, each with three characteristics (e.g., frequently suffers from insomnia) taken from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (American Psychiatric Associa...