Over 2 million people are affected by intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) worldwide every year, one third of them dying within 1 month, and many survivors being left with permanent disability. Unlike most other stroke types, the incidence, morbidity and mortality of ICH have not declined over time. No standardised diagnostic workup for the detection of the various underlying causes of ICH currently...

To assess DNA damage caused by lipid peroxidation due to copper and iron storage disorders in the human liver, the formation of the etheno adducts 1,N -ethenodeoxyadenosine (#{128}dA) and 3,N -ethenodeoxycytine (#{128}dC) was measured in liver DNA from normal subjects and from patients with Wilson’s disease (WD) and primary hemochromatosis. The mean #{128}d.A and edC levels per 10 parent nucleo...

Adaptive resonance theory (ART) models are being used for learning and prediction in a wide variety of applications. Winner-take-all coding allows these networks to maintain stable memories, but this type of code representation can cause problems such as category proliferation with fast learning and a noisy training set. A new class of ART models overcomes this limitation, permitting code repre...

Many people believe that information that is stored in long-term memory is permanent, citing examples of "retrieval techniques" that are alleged to uncover previously forgotten information. Such techniques include hypnosis, psychoanalytic procedures, methods for eliciting spontaneous and other conscious recoveries, and—perhaps most important—the electrical stimulation of the brain reported by W...

Many people believe that information that is stored in long-term memory is permanent, citing examples of "retrieval techniques" that are alleged to uncover previously forgotten information. Such techniques include hypnosis, psychoanalytic procedures, methods for eliciting spontaneous and other conscious recoveries, and—perhaps most important—the electrical stimulation of the brain reported by W...

The fuzzy ARTMAP neural network is used to classify data that is incomplete in one or more ways. These include a limited number of training cases, missing components, missing class labels, and missing classes. Modifications for dealing with such incomplete data are introduced, and performance is assessed on an emitter identification task using a data base of radar pulses. 1 A taxonomy of data i...

Optical imaging methods have revealed the spatial arrangement of orientation columns across striate cortex, usually summarized in terms of two measurements at each cortical location: (i) a \best" stimulus orientation, corresponding to the stimulus orientation that elicits a maximal response , and (ii), the magnitude of the response to the best orientation. This mapping has been described as con...

I first summarize Baltag and Smets’ contribution to this volume, and praise their work. Then I compare the anti-lexicographic plausibility update that they propose to a proposal by Aucher, as an illustration of the difference between a qualitative and a quantitive formulation of updates. I quote Spohn’s original work that is at the root of research in plausibility updates and of the notion of a...