Background and Purpose—Mexican Americans are the largest subgroup of Hispanic Americans, now the most numerous US minority population. We compared access to care, acculturation, and biological risk factors among Mexican American and non-Hispanic white stroke patients and the general population. Methods—The Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi project is a population-based stroke surveill...

i i i i Fitness-based prediction of sites of drug resistance mutations using sequence data from HIV protease inhibitor-näıve patients Thomas C Butler ∗ †, John P Barton ∗ † ‡, Mehran Kardar ∗ , and Arup K Chakraborty ∗ † ‡ § ∗Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139,†Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA...

Giulio Guagliumi, MD, FESC; Marco A. Costa, MD, PhD; Vasile Sirbu, MD; Giuseppe Musumeci, MD; Hiram G. Bezerra, MD, PhD; Nobuaki Suzuki, MD; Aleksandre Matiashvili, MD; Nikoloz Lortkipanidze, MD; Laurian Mihalcsik, MD; Antonio Trivisonno, MD; Orazio Valsecchi, MD; Gary S. Mintz, MD; Ovidiu Dressler, MD; Helen Parise, ScD; Akiko Maehara, MD; Ecaterina Cristea, MD; Alexandra J. Lansky, MD; Roxana...

Aims: To validate the CIN predictive risk score developed by Mehran et al in the study population. Study Design: This is a hospital-based prospective observational study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Medicine and Department of Radiology, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Edo State, Nigeria. September 2009 to March 2010. Methodology: One hundred and forty-two (142) out of 180 ...

An experiment was conducted in order to reconstruct previous timbre recognition experiments, measure the effect of ensemble experience and short-term training on the recognition rate, and generate more detailed baseline data to help evaluate the performance of timbre recognition computer models. The subjects, who were conservatory students, had to identify between 2, 3, 9, and 27 instruments on...

While Professor of Solfège...and Harmony at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, he was both interested and troubled by his students’ rhythmic problems. He noticed that one of his students, despite his musical problems, was capable of walking rhythmically. His observation caused him to conclude that people possessed musical rhythm instinctively, but did not transfer these instincts to fulfill thei...