An 81-year-old man with diabetes developed dizziness and markedly limited lateral saccades in both directions (figure, A and C, and video 1 on the Neurology Web site at www.neurology.org), but preserved pursuit and vestibuloocular movements (VOR, accompanied with back-up saccades; videos 2– 4). Diffusionweighted MRI revealed a small high-signal lesion at the ventral paramedian midbrain between ...

Diffusion tensor imaging is a magnetic resonance method which provides quantitative measurements of the directionality (anisotropy) of diffusion. Anisotropy measurements can be used to obtain quantitative information about the microstructural integrity of white matter tracts. In intact tracts diffusion is restricted and directional because water molecules move predominantly longitudinally to tr...

Heliconia berguidoi (Heliconiaceae), a new species from premontane forest of eastern Panama, is described, illustrated and its conservation status evaluated. Heliconia berguidoi bears pink flowers, an uncommon color in this group. It differs from the Colombian species Heliconia rhodantha and Heliconia sanctae-theresae, the most similar taxa, by the combination of a petiole glabrous except for t...

Turcinoemacheilus himalaya, new species, is described from the Koshi and Gandaki River basins of Nepal. The new species is distinguished from its hypothesised congener, Turcinoemacheilus kosswigi, from the Euphrates, Tigris and Karoun basins of the Middle East, by the presence of small scales on the posterior half of its body (v. absence of all scales), its shorter caudal peduncle (caudal pedun...

This study evaluates the diagnostic value of morphometric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the differential diagnosis among Parkinson's disease (PD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). We studied 21 PD cases, 11 MSA-c, 8 MSA-p and 20 PSP cases. Midbrain area (Ams), pons area (Apn), middle cerebellar peduncle (MCP) and superior cerebellar peduncle (SCP) we...

Mankind has been strongly dependent on plant fibres for all kind of purposes. In earlier days, natural fibres served a crucial role mitigate the everyday needs in a wide range of uses. But in recent years the arrival of synthetic products are dominating over the natural fibre, due to the low cost. But the synthetic fibres are non degradable and causing serious pollution problems. Banana is one ...

Let V be a finite-dimensional vector space, either real or complex, and equipped with an inner product 〈· , ·〉. Let A : V → V be a linear operator. Recall that the adjoint of A is the linear operator A : V → V characterized by 〈Av, w〉 = 〈v, Aw〉 ∀v, w ∈ V (0.1) A is called self-adjoint (or Hermitian) when A = A. Spectral Theorem. If A is self-adjoint then there is an orthonormal basis (o.n.b.) o...