What Factors Need to be Considered to Understand Emotional Memories?

What factors need to be considered to understand emotional memories?

In my original review (this issue), I proposed that to understand the effects of emotion on memory accuracy, we must look beyond effects of arousal and consider the contribution of valence. In discussing this proposal, the commentators raise a number of excellent points that hone in on the question of when valence does (and does not) account for emotion's effects on memory accuracy. Though futu...

Do Antibiotic Beads Need to be Removed?

Background: Polymethylmethacrylate antibiotic impregnated beads can be an effective treatment for chronicosteomyelitis or an adjuvant in the treatment of open fractures. It remains unclear however whether the beads causelong-term adverse events if not removed. The purpose of this study was to determine if removal of antibiotic beads wasrequired in order to avoid long term comp...

Can Male Fertility Be Improved Prior to Assisted Reproduction through The Control of Uncommonly Considered Factors?

What We Need to Understand to Promote Governmental Transperancy

Introduction On his first day in office, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum urging that the ―[g]overnment should be transparent,‖ and that his administration would ―take appropriate action...to disclose information rapidly.‖ 1 This is just one of the many recent efforts to promote governmental transparency. Since around the 1990s, transparency— accessibility and availability of governme...

STAMP Need Not Be Considered Harmful

The STAMP benchmark suite has not seen any updates in 5 years. During that time, language-level support for Transactional Memory (TM) has arrived, in the form of a draft specification for C++ and compiler support. In addition, there is now commodity hardware support for TM. The properties of STAMP, however, do not always match with the emerging consensus on how hardware and software transaction...