Which words are most iconic?

Which presidents are most memorable?

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE Episodic memory loss is a hall-mark of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with recall of recent events becoming progressively difficult. A commonly used tool, the recollection of US presidents, was assessed in evaluating episodic versus semantic memory loss among AD patients compared with spouse controls. METHODS A total of 36 patients (12 men, 24 women) with possible or probable ...

Iconic Gestures Prime Words

Using a cross-modal semantic priming paradigm, both experiments of the present study investigated the link between the mental representations of iconic gestures and words. Two groups of the participants performed a primed lexical decision task where they had to discriminate between visually presented words and nonwords (e.g., flirp). Word targets (e.g., bird) were preceded by video clips depict...

Which Manufacturing Sectors Are Most Vulnerable to Brexit?

Congenital heart disease screening: which referral factors are most important?

OBJECTIVE To identify the referral factors for fetal echocardiography which are associated with congenital cardiac defects in the fetus. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Radiology Department, CMH, Rawalpindi, from January 2007 to November 2010. METHODOLOGY All patients referred for fetal echocardiography with one or more risk factors for the deve...

Which sectors of a modern economy are most central?

We analyze input-output matrices for a wide set of countries as weighted directed networks. These graphs contain only 47 nodes, but they are almost fully connected and many have nodes with strong self-loops. We apply two measures: random walk centrality and one based on count-betweenness. Our findings are intuitive. For example, in Luxembourg the most central sector is “Finance and Insurance”an...