BACKGROUND At many hospitals and long-term care organizations (such as nursing homes), executive board members have a responsibility to manage patient safety. Executive WalkRounds offer an opportunity for boards to build a trusting relationship with professionals and seem useful as a leadership tool to pick up on soft signals, which are indirect signals or early warnings that something is wrong...

We report on the development of the LISA Technology Package (LTP) experiment that will fly onboard the LISA Pathfinder mission of the European Space Agency in 2008. We first summarize the science rationale of the experiment aimed at showing the operational feasibility of the so-called transverse–traceless coordinate frame within the accuracy needed for LISA. 0264-9381/05/100125+14$30.00 © 2005 ...

Computational models are important for guiding and interpreting molecular studies of learning and memory because they provide a bridge between biological and behavioral levels of analysis. These models facilitate the identification of central underlying principles that span different levels, and they can accommodate the many complexities of each of these levels and their interrelationships. We ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the presence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, P. gingivalis, P. intermedia, E. corrodens and F. nucleatum in 30 subjects with chronic periodontitis treated by scaling and root planing (SRP) plus minocycline (test group) during 12 months with regular trimester maintenance care. Additionally, we evaluated whether the beneficial effects of the therapy on the m...

One of the essential problems in synthesizing expressive talking avatar is how to model the interactions between emotional facial expressions and lip movements. Traditional methods either simplify such interactions through separately modeling lip movements and facial expressions, or require substantial high quality emotional audio-visual bimodal training data which are usually difficult to coll...

The acquisition and maintenance of new language information, such as picking up new words, is a critical human ability that is needed throughout the life span. Most likely you learned the word "blog" quite recently as an adult, whereas the word "kipe," which in the 1970s denoted stealing, now seems unfamiliar. Brain mechanisms underlying the long-term maintenance of new words have remained unkn...

8 Andrew J. Delaney, Petra L. Sedlak, Elenora Autouri, John M. Power and 9 Pankaj Sah 10 11 Queensland Brain Institute, 12 The University of Queensland 13 Brisbane, QLD, 4072 Australia 14 15 16 17 Running Title: 18 GluN2B / NR2B subunits and LTP in the amygdala 19 20 21 Correspondence to: 22 Pankaj Sah 23 Queensland Brain Institute 24 The University of Queensland 25 Brisbane, QLD 4072 26 Phone:...