To address the question of the relationship between the two visual pathways, a ventral stream for object and form vision and a dorsal stream for spatial and motion vision, we measured the spatiotemporal activation patterns in the two pathways responding to an integrated visuospatial task to which form discrimination and spatial location were assigned simultaneously. The two cognitive components...

Rumination is a form of thought characterized by repetitive focus on discomforting emotions or stimuli. In chronic pain disorders, rumination can impede treatment efficacy. The brain mechanisms underlying rumination about chronic pain are not understood. Interestingly, a link between rumination and functional connectivity (FC) of the brain's default mode network (DMN) has been identified within...

This study aimed to assess the completeness of prenatal care information on the patients' prenatal care cards, according to coverage by various public health services: Family Health Strategy (FHS), Community-Based Health Workers' Program (CBHWP), and traditional Primary Care Units (PCU) in Greater Metropolitan Vitória, Espírito Santo State, Brazil. In a cross-sectional study, 1,006 prenatal car...

OBJECTIVES The factors associated with end-of-life (EOL) care that patients with cancer selected and actual place of death (POD) is less elucidated. We analysed how specific EOL care, especially anticancer therapies, selected by patients with pancreatic carcinoma affected their POD in Japan. SETTING A retrospective cohort study using clinical records of a single institute. PARTICIPANTS This...

The speciation trend of dissolved copper (DCu) was studied by first time in a Galician Ria across the estuarine zone of the Vigo Ria during the wet season and related to the copper levels in suspended particulate matter (PCu) and sediments. In the riverine and ocean end-members DCu concentrations can be defined as pristine (<4 nM in Oitavén River). DCu is not conservative during the estuarine m...

As hospitals strive to control costs and free up more critical care beds, progressive care nurse managers need to set appropriate admission and discharge guidelines.

The research examined predicting short-duration traffic flow counts with the Kalman filtering technique (KFT), a computational method. Short-term prediction is an important tool for operation in management and transportation system. short-term value results can be used travel time estimation by route guidance advanced traveler information systems. Though KFT has been tested homogeneous traffic,...

Reaction of in situ generated lithium phosphides with 0.5 eq. Cu(I) is employed as a means of targeting lithium phosphidocuprates of either Gilman- or Lipshutz-type formulation--e.g., (R(2)P)(2)CuLi·n(LiX) (n = 0, 1). For R = Ph, X = CN in toluene followed by thf or R = Ph, X = I in thf/toluene an unexpected product results. [(Ph(2)P)(6)Cu(4)][Li·4thf](2)1 reveals an ion-separated structure in ...

BACKGROUND Deficits of the default mode network (DMN) have been demonstrated in subjects with amnestic type mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) who have a high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, no longitudinal study of this network has been reported in aMCI. Identifying links between development of DMN and aMCI progression would be of considerable value in understanding brain c...