BACKGROUND Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) can sometimes lead to persistent postconcussion symptoms. One well accepted hypothesis claims that chronic PCS has a neural origin, and is related to neurobehavioral deficits. But the evidence is not conclusive. In the attempt to characterise chronic MTBI consequences, the present experiment used a group comparison design, which contrasted persons (...

Short Messaging Service (SMS) text reminders provide a promising approach for increasing medication adherence. This review evaluates the literature from randomized controlled studies, observational studies as well as qualitative studies pertaining to efficacy of SMS reminders for improving the medication adherence. SMS interventions have been studied for a variety of disorders from medical and ...

38 UITF abstract 38 Accounting for ESOP trusts (Issued 15 December 2003) Introduction This Abstract supersedes UITF Abstract 13 ‘Accounting for ESOP trusts’ (issued on 8 June 1995). Abstract 13 addressed: (a) the nature and extent of the sponsoring company’s assets and liabilities that should be recognised under employee share ownership plans (ESOPs); and (b) the timing of expense recognition u...

b-Glucan is one of the most abundant polysaccharides in fungal pathogens, yet its importance in antifungal immunity is unclear. Here we show that deficiency of dectin-1, the myeloid receptor for b-glucan, rendered mice susceptible to infection with Candida albicans. Dectin-1-deficient leukocytes demonstrated significantly impaired responses to fungi even in the presence of opsonins. Impaired le...

Any software development project uses software tools that assist its developers in coordinating their efforts. These tools, termed coordination technologies in this paper, have undergone remarkable changes over time in the functionality that they offer. We contribute a novel perspective on this historical trend with our Coordination Pyramid, a framework that recognizes four distinct paradigms o...

Materials and methods: The participants were 220 individuals – 38 men and 137 women – selected from psychiatric and psychological clinics in Tabriz, Iran. Among the participants, 153 individuals were diagnosed with cluster B personality disorder (44 with borderline disorder, 16 with antisocial disorder, 56 with histrionic disorder and 37 with narcissistic personality disorder). The remaining 67...

B. D. Anderson, 1 A. R. Baldwin, 1 P. Baumann, 2 B. A. Brown, 3 F. Didierjean, 2,* C. C. Foster, 4 L. A. C. Garcia, 1,† A. Huck, 2 A. Knipper, 2 R. Madey, 1,5 D. M. Manley, 1 G. Marguier, 6 M. Ramdhane, 2,‡ H. Ravn, 7 C. Richard-Serre, 8 G. Walter, 2 and J. W. Watson 1 Department of Physics and Center for Nuclear Research, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 Centre de Recherches Nucléaires,...

There has been much recent discussion ahout the ultimate sources of macroeconomic variability. A number ofauthors attribute most of this variability to only B few sowces, sometimes only one. Although there may be only B few important sources, this is fsr from obvious, since economies seem compliested. The purpose of this paper is to provide qusntitstive estimates of various sowces of vsriabilit...