This is the first non-retrospective neuropsychological group study using a componential task analysis for the study of imagery. Seventy unilaterally brain damaged patients were tested on a series of tasks with the intent of isolating genuine deficits of the image generation process. The main finding is that the image generation seems to be more frequently disturbed after a left posterior damage...

The electroretinographic response to L- and M-cone isolating stimuli was measured at different luminance levels to study the effect of retinal illuminance on amplitude and phase, and how this may influence estimates of L:M ratios in the retina. It was found that the amplitude of L- and M-cone driven responses increases differently with increasing retinal illuminance: L-cone responses increase m...

Traditional accounts of explanation fail to illuminate the explanatory relevance of “models that are descriptively false” in the sense that the regularities they entail fail to obtain. In this paper, I propose an account of explanation, which I call ‘explanation by concretization’, that serves to explicate the explanatory relevance of such models. Starting from a highly abstract and idealized m...

DNA remodelling during endoreplication appears to be a strong developmental characteristic in orchids. In this study, we analysed DNA content and nuclei in 41 species of orchids to further map the genome evolution in this plant family. We demonstrate that the DNA remodelling observed in 36 out of 41 orchids studied corresponds to strict partial endoreplication. Such process is developmentally r...

In this note we sketch some results concerning a geometric method for periodic solutions of non-autonomous time-periodic differential equations. We give the definition of isolating chain and we provide a theorem on the existence of periodic solutions inside isolating chains. We recall some results on existence of chaotic dynamics which can be proved by the theorem. We provide several examples o...

We describe a fractionation technique for human platelets which improves upon previous studies (1-3) in that we have obtained greater mitochondrial enrichment than heretofore shown, and provided evidence for heterogeneity of acid hydrolase-associated structures while distinguishing the latter from a rather pure a-granule fraction. We attribute our success to two departures : homogenization by c...

In data-centric sensor networks, where data processing and transfer are oblivious to node IDs, conventional node-based security models are not suitable. We introduce the novel concept of secure locations to address non-cooperative and malicious behavior in location-aware sensor networks. Our architecture also introduces a scalable trust-based routing protocol (TRANS) to track, update and route ...

Despite a long history of examining the geographic context of speciation, differences in geographic range have rarely been considered a legitimate isolating mechanism. This likely results from the complex relationship between historical and ecological processes in determining the spatial distribution of species. Ecogeographic isolation is the proportion of geographic isolation that results from...