0749-596X/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2012.04.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of P Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2E9. Fax: +1 780 492 0023. E-mail address: [email protected] (C.R. Madan Emotionally arousing information is remembered better than neutral information. This enhancement effect has been shown for memory f...

The need for early, rapid, and substantial fluid resuscitation in septic patients has long been an article of faith in the intensive care community, a tribal totem that is taboo to question. The results of a recent multicenter trial in septic children in Africa, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, powerfully challenge the fluid paradigm. The salient aspects of the trial need to be...

Each society is characterized by its own belief system that takes roots from its cultural identity. This belief system affects all factors of human life including health. Tribals are no exception to it. The tribal societies of India have their distinctive sets of taboo and socio-cultural practices regarding health culture. This papers deals the socio-religious believe and taboo related aspects ...

Even in the presence of irrelevant stimuli, word production is a highly accurate and fluent process. But how do speakers prevent themselves from naming the wrong things? One possibility is that an attentional system inhibits task-irrelevant representations. Alternatively, a verbal self-monitoring system might check speech for accuracy and remove errors stemming from irrelevant information. Beca...

Despite increased efforts from government agencies, scientists, and non-government organizations over the past few decades, anthropogenic sources of sea turtle mortality continue to threaten the survivorship of sea turtle species around the globe. More recent efforts to engage local people with community-based sea turtle conservation programs have been based primarily on economic incentives and...

– In this paper we study the Brownian taboo process, which is a version of Brownian motion conditioned to stay within a finite interval, and the α-perturbed Brownian taboo process, which is an analogous version of an α-perturbed Brownian motion.We are particularly interested in the asymptotic behaviour of the supremum of the taboo process, and our main results give integral tests for upper and ...