In list-method directed forgetting, participants are cued to intentionally forget a previously studied list (List 1) before encoding a subsequently presented list (List 2). Compared with remember-cued participants, forget-cued participants typically show impaired recall of List 1 and improved recall of List 2, referred to as List 1 forgetting and List 2 enhancement. In 3 experiments, we examine...

OBJECTIVE To analyze time and geographical trends of breast cancer mortality. METHODS Annual mortality rates per 100,000 female inhabitants aged 20 to 59 years for the Baixada Santista metropolitan area, the city and state of São Paulo and Brazil, from 1980 to 1999, were standardized by age groups and analyzed. The analyses included regression models to estimate and compare time trends of eac...

4. Grinberg M, Chehaibar GZ. Enquete Testemunha de Jeová. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2010;95(6):765-6. References DOI: 10.5935/abc.20130133 Dear Editor, In the national and international1-3 medical literature, there is a growing number of manuscripts that focus on bioethics on the medical conduct. A relevant point is the potential for conflict between the benefit (the standpoint of a prudent and diligen...

Saving money for retirement: a simpli ed description of the problem. Let us consider a simpli ed version of this situation, when we only have two moments of the time: the current moment of time (when we earn money), and the future moment of time, in which we will not earn money. Suppose that at the present moment, we earn the amount m. Out of this amount, we can save s ≤ m and thus, spend the r...

Due to increasing water and growing demand for food a more efficient water use system is needed for agriculture. This is more evidence for rice production with a higher water use for economical production. A large cultivar×water regime interaction exists for grain yield in rice. Therefore, information is required to adopt new rice cultivars with high yield potential under water-saving condition...

By pervasiveness of cloud computing, a colossal amount of applications from gigantic organizations increasingly tend to rely on cloud services. These demands caused a great number of applications in form of couple of virtual machines (VMs) requests to be executed on data centers’ servers. Some of applications are as big as not possible to be processed upon a single VM. Also, there exists severa...