A new photo-reactive polymer, polyvinylalcohol modified with phenylazido groups, was synthesized as a microarray matrix. The polymer is soluble in water and spin-coated onto glass plate. Aqueous solutions of proteins were micro-spotted onto the coated glass and were fixed by ultraviolet light irradiation. Subsequently, cell adhesion on the photo-immobilized protein microarray was investigated. ...

This paper focuses on the creativity of the patient in analysis and compares it to that of the artist. Taking artists’ descriptions of their practices as its starting point, the paper suggests that the relationship between patient and analyst parallels that between artist and medium. Psychoanalysis and artistic process can both be seen in terms of a complex interplay between oneness and separat...

We describe 4 patients with scleroderma in whom a major clinical feature was a deforming, erosive polyarthritis accompanied by positive tests for rheumatoid factor. In all but 1 case the skin involvement preceded joint symptoms, and in some cases there was evidence of systemic involvement. This destructive arthritis may represent the coexistence of 2 diseases or an extreme form of the inflammat...

The analogue functional analysis described by Iwata, Dorsey, Slifer, Bauman, and Richman (1982/1994) identifies broad classes of variables (e.g., positive reinforcement) that maintain destructive behavior (Fisher, Ninness, Piazza, & Owen-DeSchryver, 1996). However, it is likely that some types of stimuli may be more effective reinforcers than others. In the current investigation, we identified ...

In this paper, we propose a system to detect event photos using geotagged tweets and non-geotagged photo tweets. In our previous work, only “geotagged photo tweets” was used for event photo detection the ratio of which to the total tweets was very limited. In the proposed system, we use geotagged tweets without photos for event detection, and non-geotagged photo tweets for event photo detection...

Let bd(P ) denote the boundary of a simple polygon P . Points p and q of P are mutually visible if segment pq lies entirely inside P . This notion of visibility gave birth to an extensive literature on art-gallery problems [3], concerned with guarding the floor of a polygonal art-gallery. Chvatal [2] showed that bn/3c point guards are always sufficient and sometimes necessary. Allowing guards t...